num_pages: 272
description: Now from Brandon Webb Navy SEAL sniper and New York Times bestselling author comes his personal account of the eight friends and fellow SEALs who made the ultimate sacrifice. Knowing these great menwho they were how they lived and what they stood forhas changed my life. We cant let them be forgotten. So read about these amazing men share their stories and learn from them as I have. Weve mourned their deaths. Lets celebrate their lives.Brandon WebbAs a Navy SEAL Brandon Webb rose to the top of the worlds most elite sniper corps experiencing years of punishing training and combat missions from the Persian Gulf to Afghanistan. Among the best of the best he led the SEALs clandestine sniper training program as course manager instructing a new generation of the worlds top snipers. Along the way Webb served beside trained and supported men he came to know not just as fellow warriors but as friends and eventually as heroes. Among Heroes gives his personal account of these eight extraordinary SEALs who gave all for their comradesand their country.Here are the true stories behind the remarkable valor and abiding humanity of those sheepdogs (as they call themselves) who protect us from the wolves of the world. Of Matt Axe Axelson who perished on the Lone Survivor mission in Afghanistan. Of Chris Campbell Heath Robinson and JT Tumilson who were among the thirty-eight casualties of Extortion 17 the Chinook helicopter shot down in August 2011. Of Glen Doherty Webbs best friend for more than a decade killed while helping secure the successful rescue and extraction of American CIA and State Department diplomats in Benghazi Libya on September 11 2012; and other close friends classmates and fellow warriors.In Among Heroes Webb offers eight intensely personal profiles of uncommon couragewho these men were what they stood for and how they came to make the ultimate sacrifice. These are men who left behind powerfully instructive examples of what it means to be aliveand what it truly means to be a hero.INCLUDES PHOTOS
language: English
title: Among Heroes: A U.S. Navy Seal's True Story of Friendship, Heroism, and the Ultimate Sacrifice
publisher: Dutton Caliber