The Element of Surprise: Navy SEALS in Vietnam

Darryl Young

Feb 2011 · Ballantine Books

About this ebook

It used to be said that the night belonged to Charlie. But that wasn't true where SEALs patrolled. For six months in 1970, fourteen men in Juliett Platoon of the Navy's SEAL Team One--incuding the author--carried out over a hundred missions in the Mekong Delta without a single platoon fatality. Their primary mission: kidnap enemy soldiers--alive--for interrogation.

Ratings and reviews

This has to be the best book I have ever read written by a Man who was There...it makes you feel as though you are there...you can smell, feel, hear, almost touch the tension...I'm certain that it was much more profound than he was able to put on the page, but with the censors of the Special Warfare Group looking over your shoulder...what do you expect? As a firearms author, and one who has never had the privilege of holding and admiring, much less shooting a Stoner 63A, he makes you almost able to hear it as it supresses the overwhelming enemy at hand...I have read this book so many times the pictures fell out, so I ordered another and alas...this time no pictures...shame on the printer for this! Do not attempt to save money at the expense of this hero's book and story. One note to Darryl Young...if you ever get around south Texas I will personally pay for a fishing trip for you...long as, of course...I get to go also...wonderful book, must read - page turner deluxe!!! Walton H. Cude

Tool,.in it more than modern tides

Love it...true legend. Semper Fi.

About the author

Darryl Young is a former Navy SEAL and the author of The Element of Surprise: Navy SEALs in Vietnam and SEALs, UDT, Frogmen: Men Under Pressure.