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John Piedmont’s Det One: U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Special Operations Command Detachment, 2003–2006

None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism (Hirsh 2003).

Levi Hunt had survived Special Forces training, which made SEALs’ Hell Week look like a tweens’ summer camp. He’d lived through multiple tours of Afghanistan when it seemed that everyone and his aunt was trying to kill him in wildly inventive ways.

commanders. Daniel Green’s In the Warlords’ Shadow (Green 2017)

Sean Naylor’s Not a Good Day to Die (Naylor 2005) recounts the courage and organizational mishaps by SOF and coalition conventional forces in the one of the largest military operations in the post-9/11 era, Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, which took place in March 2002.