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    FROM SEA TO LAND

    Oct 26, 2021 3 minutes

    UTHOR BENJAMIN H. MILLIGAN introduces , his awkwardly titled but engaging study of U.S. Navy SEAL origins, with an intriguing premise: from the first days of World War II into the Vietnam War era, each step the navy took toward creating its storied “Sea Air Land” warriors was preceded by “a failure by one of the Navy’s sister services to seize an obvious opportunity to permanently establish its own commando

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