Death in the Jungle: Diary of a Navy Seal

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SEALs likedoperating there because they made enemy contact on every mission, and contact resulting in enemy deaths was the epitome ofsuccess for a SEAL. His first two requests forUDT training were refused, but he was eventually successful in securing a transfer.

Death in the Jungle Diary of a Navy Seal

Smith, who was deployed to Vietnam in , describes the life of his SEAL platoon—including ribald banter in the chow hall,dangerous ambush missions, the grueling daily training runs which often as not ended in fits of vomiting and hard-drinking,all-night parties. A pointman on several combat missions, Smith describes what it was liketo sit silent and uncomplaining for hour after hour in an ambush site, enduring the swarms of insects, waist-deep mud, musclecramps, thirst and the unrelenting heat of the Vietnamese jungle.

The payoff was springing sudden death upon the elusive VCand NVA…often as they unsuspectingly floated by in their sampans. Beginning each of his chapters with a mission profile that includes time, date, map grid, locations, personnel, weapons, terrain,weather and code words, Smith injects grim, vivid realism into the combat missions he describes.

Rather, they are representative of the give-and-take banter and jesting interplay between Smith andhis SEAL teammates. In that respect, Death in the Jungle contains a good deal of dialogue. Using dialogue, he tries to recapturethe feelings and emotions of those with whom he served.


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While it generally seems to work, there are times when it comes offstilted and even a little false. One of the SEALs died in a training accident, drowning when a boat overturned. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of the Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island.

Death in the Jungle

Through death reigned as king in the jungles as king in the jungles of Vietnam, Gary Smith considered it a privelege and an honor to serve under the officers and with the men of Underwater Demolition Team 12 and SEAL Team 1. Because he and his teammates, trained to the max, gave each other the courage at attain the unattainable….


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