Preface Acknowledgments Glossary of terms and abbreviations 1 Early days 2 Recruit training 3 Infantry training 4 SAS selection 5 Pre-deployment training 6 Arriving in Vietnam 7 First patrol 8 Cobras and the Don Khanh Hotel 9 WIA 10 No comms 11 Contacts and ambushes 12 Double bluff 13 Action on the Firestone Trail 14 Working with 22 SAS-Malaysia 15 Exercise Sidewalk-Papua New Guinea 16 Back to Nui Dat 17 Caches and booby traps 18 Elephants 19 The May Tao Mountains 20 SEAL operations Epilogue Appendix Index