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(More customer reviews)This is not a horribly written novel, just not a very interesting one. Mr. Myers could have written a one chapter synopsis that covered the whole book and could have shared some operations that Recon were involved with at it's beginning. In fact, it is just the reverse. He spends the whole book describing the formation of test unit one and all the training that went into forming the Recon. (including equipment testing) Only the last chapter in the book gives some small snippetts about units in combat using the Fulton Skyhook and SPIE rigging extraction methods. All in all a very technical but boring book. Good for those who want to know what type of material that was selected for special forces parachutes or for spie rigging ropes....
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At the end of World War II, when daring marine reconnaissance units made a life-and-death difference in island warfare in the Pacific, a secret unit was formed inside the military. With courageous men risking their lives, Test Unit 1 experimented with new ways of inserting marines behind enemy lines-by sea and by land-and then getting them out again. As America barreled towards a confrontation in Indochina and a new era of warfare, First Force Recon was born...This is the untold, inside story of a super elite reconnaissance force-U.S. Special Operations Forces who practiced clandestine insertion and extraction by submarine, jet aircraft and helicopter, using tools and techniques that had never been tried before. Strapping you in the harness of a HALO parachute, launching from the torpedo room of a submerged submarine or climbing the extraction rig of a hovering marine chopper, Fortune Favors the Brave is a firsthand account of what it was like to build a new strike force from the ground up... to make sure that the next time America fought a war, Force Recon would be there.
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