Review: Continues to be great reading
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2013
Dixon writes good reading SEAL Team stories. Not being a SEAL I don't know how accurate they are but they are good reading, and as the other reviewer said, "Too short". Maybe I'm so used to reading Clancy books that shorter stories leave me feeling like it wasn't enough. This book has a lot of similarities with one of Tom Clancy's more recent books (can't remember which one) and it also reminded me of "Lone Survivor". I guess you can't write a SpecOps book about that part of the world without having some similarities... fiction or non-fiction.Seems that "Woody" was written as being a bit naive when he was introduced and I don't think that would be the case. He didn't just come into the Navy and go directly to BUD/s. He is a Chief so he has been in the Navy 8-10 years minimum, made some cruises, seen some of world, and been around people in other countries. He was also been in SEAL training for 12-18 months before he was ever assigned to a Team. I know it is fiction and just a story but I had a little bit of a problem with Woody coming across like a kid with his first ice cream cone in the plane when he met Senior Chief Heath.My only real problem with Dixon's writing is that it seems he still doesn't fully understand the rank terminology associated with the Navy. For instance, an E-7 is a Chief Petty Officer and is normally called "Chief". An E-8 is a Senior Chief Petty Officer and is almost always called either "Senior Chief" or just "Senior". An E-9 is "Master Chief". I know the Teams are more lax in their structure and often refer to each other my their Team name or some other name as the circumstances apply, but if anyone in the Navy is going to use the formal rank terminology it will be either "Chief", "Senior Chief" (or "Senior"), or "Master Chief". It would be discourteous and borderline disrespectful to call a Senior Chief or Master Chief, "Chief".All that said I love Dixon's writing and look forward to the next in the series.