Point Man: Inside the Toughest and Most Deadly Unit in Vietnam by a Founding Member of the Elite Navy Seals

by James Watson and Kevin Dockery

Book Overview

Chief Petty Officer James "Patches" Watson was there at the start. One of the first to come out of the famed Underwater Demolition Team 21, he was an initial member -- a "plank owner" -- of America's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688122124
• ISBN13: 9780688122126
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

HOOYAH Chief!

I think that this is a great book! One of the best I have ever read. It tells you a great deal about the Navy SEALs and their adventures in Nam! I hope to become a SEAL someday soon, and hope to work with people such as those described in the book. I liked it so much that I contacted Chief Petty Officer Watson telling him just that.

Superb Non Fiction Account of SEAL Missions

I read "Point Man" and "Walking Point" with great interest. I have looked at quite a lot of SEAL literature, and find that these two books stand out above all the rest of the genre. You wanna know about SEALS? Read about the Chief himself in Point Man and Walking Point!!! I have met the Man and am glad to report he is a REAL DEAL SEAL! He also wrote 3 works of SEAL fiction that will keep your adrenaline pumping from page to page! (Top Secret series 1-3, and a 4th being developed for July 99) Good going, Chief "Patches" Watson!!

superb!

You could almost imagine what it was like being in 'Nam - hear the ruffle of the leaves, smell the sweat, feel the dampness of the ground and hear the crickets. Read it alone at night and you could easily imagine Charlies waiting to spring a surprise on you. No regrets getting this book!

If you like Marcinko's Rogue Warrior Bio...it's a must read

Written in much the same style as the Richard Marcinko biography Rogue Warrior, Point Man takes the reader through UDT training, the founding of seal team two and three tours of vietnam. The similarity of the stories told in this book to those in Marcinko's Rogue Warrior only confirm their authenticity.