Summary of Richard Marcinko's Rogue Warrior

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 I was the first soldier to jump off the C-130 that was carrying the HAHO team to the island. I was carrying almost 100 pounds of equipment, which was a problem in the thin air during HAHO jumps.

#2 I was the 13th jumper to exit the C-130. I had designed, built, equipped, and trained what I believed to be the uneffective and secret counterterror force. I had not failed, until now.

#3 I was 11,000 feet in the air, and I had about ten miles before touchdown. I watched the breakers wash ashore more than two miles beneath my feet. Beyond the sea was the jungle, and it was scrubby jungle common to much of the Caribbean and Latin America.

#4 I was tasked with tracking down a group of Puerto Rican terrorists called the Macheteros. They had stolen a nuclear weapon, it was believed, and were hiding out on the small island of Vieques.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669386803

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Insights on Richard Marcinko's Rogue Warrior

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 25

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was the first soldier to jump off the C-130 that was carrying the HAHO team to the island. I was carrying almost 100 pounds of equipment, which was a problem in the thin air during HAHO jumps.

#2

I was the 13th jumper to exit the C-130. I had designed, built, equipped, and trained what I believed to be the uneffective and secret counterterror force. I had not failed, until now.

#3

I was 11,000 feet in the air, and I had about ten miles before touchdown. I watched the breakers wash ashore more than two miles beneath my feet. Beyond the sea was the jungle, and it was scrubby jungle common to much of the Caribbean and Latin America.

#4

I was tasked with tracking down a group of Puerto Rican terrorists called the Macheteros. They had stolen a nuclear weapon, it was believed, and were hiding out on the small island of Vieques.

#5

The Macheteros were a well-funded, well-organized guerrilla force of ultranationalists who wanted to wage a terrorist war against what they called U. S. colonialist imperialism in the broadside communiques they distributed following dozens of attacks.

#6

The planning process took about an hour. Gold Dust Frank, a boatswain’s mate, and PV, a member of the Navy’s parachute team, began to work out the intricacies of a 56-man clandestine jump and a ten-nautical-mile glide, given the approximate load each man would be carrying.

#7

The team went wheels up at 1400 hours. The guys looked tired but ready as they settled as comfortably as they could in the canvas cargo sling seats that ran up and down the sides of the C-130’s fuselage.

#8

I had begun to believe that the system was finally giving me the chance to lead a team of SEALs, and that the bullet in my hand was a sign that things were going to work out fine. But I was still very much in the dark about how my men would perform during this complicated series of tasks.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The silence was good. You could hear the jungle’s natural sounds resume their normal activities. I heard something small and winged, and it landed on my earlobe.

#2

I had to take down the warehouse where the nuke was, with my platoon. The last platoon, split into two sevenman boat crews, would act as flankers. They’d sweep up any bad guys who got between us and the gate.

#3

I