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Buy a cheap copy of Rogue Warrior book by Richard Marcinko. A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist. Free shipping over $10.
The Rogue Warrior series of novels began with the real life biography of one, former Navy Commander who served in Vietnam, commanded and created the elite counterterrorist unit SEAL Team Six. He then put together Red Cell, reputedly a group with a two-tier purpose. The overt mission was to break into Air Force One, nuclear submarines, Camp David and other secure locations in mock terrorist attacks to test their security. Reputedly, their other mission was to find and eliminate terrorists.Marcinko had a habit of pissing off the chain of command, who eventually spent $60 million trying to convict him of mutiny, something he actually did on numerous occasions. Though they failed, they were able to have Marcinko convicted for misappropriation of funds.
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Marcinko spent a year in prison, where he wrote his first New York Times bestselling book. How much of the case against him was legit and how much was vindictive brass trying to get payback is, but Marcinko is sufficiently controversial (and shady) that most Navy SEALs today consider him an for Naval Special Warfare. Tropes associated with the Rogue Warrior:.: Marcinko's SOP for rules is to immediately break them, but he uses this in Red Cell where he is not to write another nonfiction book. So the rest of the series is written as fiction, which he alleges is work he'd really done.: Marcinko served as Naval Attache in Cambodia after the Vietnam War. Particularly noteworthy in that he paints most of his colleagues as a subversion of this trope - career resume builders who happen to wear a uniform but want nothing to do with combat.: His stock in trade. While capable of stealth, expect him to default to this strategy.: Marcinko. His character was frocked to it in one of his books, and real life he retired as a Commander-one step below Captain.: It begins with a description of one of Marcinko's SEAL instructors being like this and it goes downhill from here.
You will fucking get this cocksucking motherfucking radio fucking fixed by the fucking morning or I will motherfucking fucking kick your motherfucking ass into fucking next fucking week.: Marcinko isn't shy about this, and those who do this that upset him is an indicator of them being a monster. The queen of this trope is undoubtedly a female SEAL in his first post-9/11 book,.: In Vietnam Marcinko and his team wore French foreign legion uniforms and black Vietcong pajamas (illegal and against, like he cared,) use tire shoes or even go barefoot, booby trap corpses, sabotage ammo caches, and he only got dirtier when he began his fictional novels. One story in particular comes straight out of the mind of a voodoo author writing about Pol Pot: Marcinko apparently cut off the heads of enemy soldiers, posed the bodies so they sat cross legged holding their heads in their laps, smoking joss sticks where their eyes should be.
All in a bid to spook the NVA.: While it's almost a given some clueless superior will object to Marcinko's hostage rescue tactics, special mention goes to the aircraft takedown at the beginning of Task Force Blue. In the aftermath, the Secretary of the Navy (one of the hostages aboard the plane) treats Marcinko and his SEALs as loose cannons for shooting her bodyguard, despite the fact that.: as Dick Marcinko in the, says all of his one-liners with about as much emphasis as a block of wood.
: Ice cold, Mickey.: Despite a disclaimer at the start, the episode 'Rogue' features a former Navy SEAL who probes military installations with impunity, looks like the series mainstay Steve Hartman and even pulls Marcinko's Unless Otherwise Directed ploy (phoning the admiral for last minute orders before acting on his own prerogative.).: One of the villains from Red Cell is said to have done this in Vietnam.: Throughout the books Marcinko mentions all manner of exotic dishes he's had, from the spiciest curry to various forms of reptile, being quite literally a special forces snake eater. The creme de la creme is probably from his first book, a cobra feast.: Frequently, both given and taken. After all, it works.: Not the granddaddy of them all, despite Team Six, that would be one of his commanders Roy Boehm and before them Navy divers. More the uncouth uncle.: Fought in the.: Fought in the.: A lot of Marcinko's plans when he was in SEAL Team Six and Red Cell. How did he blow up Air Force One?
By stealing an Air Force truck carrying aircraft bombs, and parking it under the plane.: After his first autobiography. Although he maintains he actually did do the things he writes about or close to it, this goes completely out the window later in the series.: His first book and subsequent sequels verge on the serious side. After splitting from his long term editor the books become downright silly with Marcinko becoming a larger than life comic book character. His real life self help books on leadership go back to the serious.: Ex-military villains will frequently be characterized like this.: The has shades of this, with the player being able to sneak through enemies and them. Said gameplay mechanic would be reused in the 2010 game.: Tacked over the end credits of the game, and probably the best part of an otherwise execrable experience. See above for the link.: His fictional sequels are based on work he had done, or alleges to have. His non fiction books on leadership and his teammates draw from the real success of everyone from Chrysler and Dominos pizza to the NBA.: Richard Marcinko talks about his time as an enlisted sailor, earning a GED (in dropouts were allowed in the military) then going UDT.
He earned a college degree and then went to OCS (a cakewalk for the now SEAL Marcinko).: The aforementioned Trace Dahlgren, enough so to shock the stone-cold Marcinko.: The tactics and methodology of special forces are rewritten in his books so as not to read like a guide to terrorists.
Author | Richard 'Dick' Marcinko |
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Subject | Richard 'Dick' Marcinko |
Genre | autobiography |
Publisher | Atria Books |
Publication date | 1992 |
Pages | xii, 336 pages |
ISBN | 0671795937 |
OCLC | 24871462 |
Rogue Warrior is an autobiography by career US naval officer Richard 'Dick' Marcinko, who spent his career struggling to win acceptance for special warfare SEAL units within the Navy establishment.
It covers the early history of the SEAL units, his participation in the Vietnam War, the Iran hostage rescue attempt in 1980 and the U.S. invasion of Grenada and the founding and early history of two United States Navy counter-terrorist units, SEAL Team SIX and Red Cell.
While commanding Red Cell, he was directed to use them to test the Navy's anti-terrorist capabilities and to expose the security weaknesses of U.S. properties around the world. During the tests, Red Cell was often able to infiltrate supposedly impenetrable, highly secured bases, nuclear submarines, ships and other 'secure areas', including the Presidential plane Air Force One. In doing so, he claims to have embarrassed several superior officers, whom he accuses of involvement in his subsequent conviction for misappropriation of funds and resources under his command. Marcinko also delights in recalling the gross behavior of the SEALs, such as eating the brains of a live monkey to impress some of his Cambodian allies.[1]
Based on the success of the book, Marcinko went on to author a series of novels placing himself as the protagonist and entitling the series: Rogue Warrior. The book also spawned a 2009 video game which features Marcinko as the protagonist.
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- ^Regan, J., & Mccarthy, P. (eds.) (1992). Rogue Warrior. Retrieved December 7, 2012, from Publishers Weekly website: http://www.publishersweekly.com/paper-copy/reviews/single/978-0-671-70390-5
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