Tactical Fitness Report With Stew Smith Podcast

The new book by Ben Milligan, By Water Beneath the Walls – The Rise of the Navy SEALs is not your typical Navy SEAL book, in fact there is not a single mention how the author successfully completed the toughest military training in the world – BUD/S – Basic Underwater Demolition / SEAL training. This is first a well-researched study of history dating just after World War I when the political and economic situation of the times required conventional leaders to think out of the box and create soldiers, sailors, and marines who were “raiders, commandos, and amphibious operators.” It is second, an entertaining storyline detailing incredible “special operations” missions conducted by brave and larger than life Americans throughout World War II, Korea, and Vietnam from all of the services – not just the Navy. These missions and lessons from the Army Scouts, Army Rangers, Special Forces, Marine Raiders and RECON, and the Navy’s own Navy Combat Demolition Units (NCDU) and Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) were the his