Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL (22 page)

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Combat-swimmer training, Isla Peros, Puerto Rico. Author (standing, carrying fins) and Frank Giffland (mask on head).

U.S. Navy

 

Woodland operations, predeployment training, Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia.
Operator in foreground carries an M-4 carbine, aka a “poodle shooter.” Rigged under the barrel is an M-203 grenade launcher. Operator in background carries an M-60 machine gun.

U.S. Navy

 

Counterambush training, Isla Peros, Puerto Rico. Bubba at left, Surfer Dave, right (crouching).

U.S. Navy

 

Dog tired after a week of night ops. Fifth Platoon’s operational readiness exam, Isla Peros, Puerto Rico. Left to right: Frank Giffland, Operator 570, Cheese, Scott.

U.S. Navy

 

PEACEKEEPER

Green Beach, with Beirut International Airport in the background.

U.S. Navy

 

Green Beach, from seaward. Note the causeway sections and the fortifications on the hill.

U.S. Navy

 

The author and Doc Jones at Green Beach, August 1983. Our world was about to get violent.

Scott Speroni

 

The Radical Riviera. West Beirut, the Italian sector. A wild no-man’s-land we called Khomeiniville.

U.S. Marine Corps

 

It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood. Marine patrol enters the slum of Hay es Salam, north of Beirut International Airport. This part of town we called Hooterville.

U.S. Marine Corps

 

Martyr’s Square. The Green Line, downtown Beirut.

U.S. Marine Corps

 

French Foreign Legion barracks, Beirut. This building (at left) would be truck bombed on October 23.

U.S. Marine Corps

 

Inside the watchtower, Green Beach. In a matter of weeks, snipers would make the tower too dangerous to use.

U.S. Marine Corps

 

Explosion tears at right flank of Green Beach.

Scott Speroni

 

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