
Always Faithful, Always Forward
The Forging of a Special Operations Marine
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Narrated by:
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John Pruden
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By:
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Dick Couch
The Marine Special Operations Command ("MARSOC") is the newest component of the military's shift toward a fully integrated Special Operations Command structure. At first, the Marines were strongly against any Marines serving under anyone other than another Marine.
Then 9/11 happened.
In the years following, Marine forces found themselves growing more agreeable to inter-branch operational command, finally forming the Marine Special Operations Command in 2006. Always Faithful, Always Forward follows the journey of a class of Marine candidates from their recruitment, through assessment and selection, to their qualification as Marines Special Operators.
The assessment, selection, and training regimes are a combination of psychological testing and intense military training as well as being a physical and professional rite of passage. MARSOC Marines must be efficient, agile, independent, and prepared to live hard in the field. They are warriors trained in the full range of military skills, as well as teachers who can train locals to defend their communities and lead them in battle. But above all, they are Marines. Their ability to leverage their numbers by embedding with the locals and to live in remote locations has, in their short history, made them a valuable force and one with great utility in remote reaches of the world.
Retired Navy Captain Dick Couch has been given unprecedented access to this new command and to the individual Marines of this exceptional special-operations unit, allowing him to chronicle the history and development of the Marine Special Operations Command and how they find, recruit, and train their special operators.
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If you are looking for accounts of Marine Special Operators in action in the field, you will not find this book interesting.
However, if you want to understand how the Marine Corps integrated into Special Forces, what motivates a Marine to become a Critical Skills Operator, how Marines think and act and how the Marine Corps leverages all of this to Create MARSOC, then this book is for you,
Describes how you the Marine Corps works and how they built MARSOC
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great read!
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A Story for military buffs indeed
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While Rangers, SEALs, Green Berets, etc. are well known, Couch educates us on training for the fairly new and exciting Marine special forces.MARSOC Training Explained
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Incredibly Detailed
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If you like Any of Dick Couch's books, You'll love
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What did you like best about Always Faithful, Always Forward? What did you like least?
I like the topicWhat was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
I didn't get that .What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
I like the voice, which is one of my choosing criteria, but the reading was very technical and I did not find enough processing time or white space on the pages.Do you think Always Faithful, Always Forward needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
Those who have served in the military might appreciate follow-up, but not for me at my level of abbreviationstoo technical and difficult for me
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