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The story Seal Team Six is authored by Howard E. Wasdin and co-authored by Stephen Templin in hopes of creating and publishing one of the most fascinating military stories of all time. It was published on May 10th, 2011, but took Howard many years to write from the emotional toll it took to relive some of these moments. After he ended his military career it took him roughly sixteen years to finish his book and get it edited than published. The genre is non-fiction because it is Wasdin’s true story of becoming a warrior in the group famously known as Seal Team Six. Seal Team Six, is a portrayal that brings out the truth to being in the armed forces and how grueling it is for the human mind to deal with the aftermath that comes from being in …show more content…

We have not covered this era in history so pretty much everything was new information to me, and I was able to learn many things from reading it. Howard took part in the Gulf War and the Somali Civil War. He was a part of Operation Desert Storm which was the first huge battle of the Gulf War. Howard’s last battle was the Battle of Mogadishu which he was badly hurt in. He was shot three times and almost lost a leg. This really makes me think and question just how many people normally get hurt and killed in battles and it made me realize just how easy it is for a man in combat to go from having a good day to being on their …show more content…

It goes through years of hard work for a single man to be able to take part in one influential battle, the Gulf War. Also it gives a deeper insight to the behind the scenes action taking place before and after the war. The Gulf War made an economic impact on the United States because we attempted to help protect Kuwait which costs us around sixty six million, however it was the smallest payed for wars in U.S. history. We joined the war in hopes of protecting the oil resources within the lands of Kuwait and Iraq, which Iraq attempted and succeeded in invading the Kuwait lands. However, in the end we ended with profit in protecting Kuwait's oil rich area, in which we are allied with in sharing and producing oil resources.Through reading this novel I got the chance to research and learn information that I had not previously know because we have not reached that era in history. The only chapter in out book that would pertain to this time would be chapter thirty six which is the last chapter in the book. Seal Team Six is a very recently made has made a huge impact on what I have known historically, and through my research and reading I have found out so much more than I previously thought I

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