Don Mann (CWO3, USN) has for the past thirty years been associated with the Navy SEALs as a platoon member, assault team member, boat crew leader, and advanced training officer, and more recently he has been program director preparing civilians to go to BUD/S (SEAL Training). Until 1998 he was on active duty with SEAL Team Six. Since his retirement, he has deployed to the Middle East on numerous occasions in support of the war against terrorism. Many of the active-duty members of SEAL Team Six are the same men he taught how to shoot, conduct ship and aircraft takedowns, and operate in urban, arctic, desert, and river and jungle warfare, as well as close quarters battle and military operations in urban terrain. He has suffered a broken back, two pulmonary embolisms, and multiple other broken bones in training or service. He has twice survived being captured during operations.
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Ralph Pezzullo is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His books include Jawbreaker (with CIA operative Gary Berntsen), At the Fall of Somoza, Plunging Into Haiti (winner of the Douglas Dillon Award for American Diplomacy), The Walk-In, Most Evil (with Steve Hodel), Eve Missing, and Blood of My Blood. His film adaptation of Recoil by Jim Thompson, directed by James Foley, is scheduled to reach theaters next year.