US Special Operations Command in Action

by Patrick Allen

When America's military might is brought to bear on miscreant nations, the spearhead troops first into action are those of US Special Operations Command. These elite fighting units are highly trained... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840373377
• ISBN13: 9781840373370
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Motorbooks International
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent photo book, READ the text before condemning

This is an outstanding book because it is full of revealing photographs useful to the military professional and it lays out the path it takes to become a Special Operator--the common denominator IS parachute Airborne school. By showing this common training denominator you get the sense of what USSOCOM is about; which is infiltrating and exfiltrating by extreme means to do special missions. True, LRS Units are not part of USSOCOM nor are marines, but the fact that these units exist and are quasi-"special" is a misunderstanding easy to forgive coming from a British writer.The LRS Course is mentioned in the context of the Ranger Training Brigade which is a necessary stepping stone in the USSOCOM "pipeline" to being a "tabbed" member of the 75th Ranger Regiment. Rangers are half in the conventional Army and half in SOF, this is a convuluted reality no fault of the writer's. Just look at the photos to study the gear and TTP being employed at the second the picture was taken for crying out loud!