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[From TheRealBookSpy.com] Everything he’s ever done has led him to this moment. By now, readers know his story. Former Navy SEAL Scot Harvath cut his teeth with SEAL Team Two, the cold weather specialists, before joining the Navy’s storied SEAL Team Six, where he eventually assisted on a maritime presidential detail—catching the eye of the Secret Service. After Harvath had...
[From: PBS.org] RENO, Nev. (AP) — Burning Man organizers say the U.S. government wants to place unreasonable conditions on a proposal to expand the counter-culture festival’s capacity to 100,000, including stepped-up security searches and new perimeter barriers that land managers say would reduce vulnerability to acts of terrorism. Group leaders say the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed stipulations for a...
AC 130 Spectre Gunship Harvath and his team eagerly await the arrival of an AC -130 gunship in the closing scenes of THE APOSTLE. A converted cargo plane, the heavily armed aircraft houses mounted weapons and firing ports. Manned by a United States Air Force crew of 13, the gunships are most often used for close air support, reconnaissance, and...
The transport plane, like everything else in Russia, was a piece of shit. For years, mechanics had swapped out its worn scavenged parts with even older parts. Cracks had been filled with epoxy. Leaking tubes and frayed wires had been wrapped with tape. A crash had been inevitable. A booming noise, like a bag of horseshoes thrown into a dryer,...
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