Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL (22 page)

Combat-swimmer training, Isla Peros, Puerto Rico. Author (standing, carrying fins) and Frank Giffland (mask on head).

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Woodland operations, predeployment training, Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia.
Operator in foreground carries an M-4 carbine, aka a “poodle shooter.” Rigged under the barrel is an M-203 grenade launcher. Operator in background carries an M-60 machine gun.

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Counterambush training, Isla Peros, Puerto Rico. Bubba at left, Surfer Dave, right (crouching).

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Dog tired after a week of night ops. Fifth Platoon’s operational readiness exam, Isla Peros, Puerto Rico. Left to right: Frank Giffland, Operator 570, Cheese, Scott.

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Green Beach, with Beirut International Airport in the background.

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Green Beach, from seaward. Note the causeway sections and the fortifications on the hill.

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The author and Doc Jones at Green Beach, August 1983. Our world was about to get violent.

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The Radical Riviera. West Beirut, the Italian sector. A wild no-man’s-land we called Khomeiniville.

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It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood. Marine patrol enters the slum of Hay es Salam, north of Beirut International Airport. This part of town we called Hooterville.

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Martyr’s Square. The Green Line, downtown Beirut.

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French Foreign Legion barracks, Beirut. This building (at left) would be truck bombed on October 23.

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Inside the watchtower, Green Beach. In a matter of weeks, snipers would make the tower too dangerous to use.

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Explosion tears at right flank of Green Beach.

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