Sublime

Dick Couch offers another of his superb SOF selection and training books with his account of MARSOC’s approach to those issues: Always Faithful, Always Forward: The Forging of a Special Operations Marine (Couch 2015).

Hoping to stain the McCain family’s prestigious military legacy and the United States, the Vietcong repeatedly offered McCain the opportunity to be released and return home. He wouldn’t take it. He would not undermine the cause, despite self-interest. He stayed and was tortured—by choice.