With the killing of Osama bin Laden, we know what heroes these men are, but you could not be anything but a hero when forged on that anvil. Just reading about the training is enough to keep one turning pages furiously. Suffer in Silence has a good plot, but it’s almost unnecessary.
The SEAL trainees had no sleep for the whole of Hell Week and their cold one was “get wet and roll in the sand,” the instructor’s order to lay down in the 60 degree Pacific Ocean and roll around in the sand until they were frozen and coated with gritty sand. But I slept all night the night before the Slide for Life and went to the Officer’s Club for a cold one after the drown-proofing in the Fort Benning, Georgia pool. When I was in the Army as an Infantry officer, I had done a few of the things the SEAL trainees did, like the Slide for Life and the drown-proofing. But I slept all night the night before the Slide for Life and went to the Officer’s Club for a cold one after the drown-proofing in the F Wow! After finishing David Reid’s Suffer in Silence, A Novel of Navy SEAL Training, I almost felt like I had been through BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) Hell Week myself-it was that compellingly written. Wow! After finishing David Reid’s Suffer in Silence, A Novel of Navy SEAL Training, I almost felt like I had been through BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) Hell Week myself-it was that compellingly written. What happens in the darkness at the edge of the Pacific will change their lives forever.more With deteriorating health and a dangerous enemy in hot pursuit, the two unlikely friends struggle to survive. Ensign Grey thought he knew what to expect, but when Seaman Murray attempts to blackmail an instructor who is determined to see him fail, Hell Week takes on a new meaning.
It's the pivotal test faced by every Navy SEAL: one hundred twenty sleepless hours of relentless physical punishment, interrupted only by hypothermia-inducing surf torture. Ensign Grey thought he knew what to expect, "A gripping novel of men training to become Navy SEALs who are pushed to their physical and mental limits-and what happens when those thresholds are crossed" "A gripping novel of men training to become Navy SEALs who are pushed to their physical and mental limits-and what happens when those thresholds are crossed" It's the pivotal test faced by every Navy SEAL: one hundred twenty sleepless hours of relentless physical punishment, interrupted only by hypothermia-inducing surf torture.
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