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On this point, Greitens departs a bit. “You can’t make a lot of physical assumptions,†says the author of “The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL.†There are SEALs who are 5 feet 4 and SEALs who are 6 feet 5, Greitens says. In his training group, he adds, there were college football studs who couldn’t hack it; those who survived were most often men in good shape, but they also had a willingness to subsume their concerns in favor of the mission.
The shooter’s probably not the crew-cut, neatly shaven ideal we’ve come to expect from American fighting forces. “He’s bearded, rough-looking, like a street urchin,†Marcinko supposes. “You don’t want to stick out.†Marcinko calls it “modified grooming standards.â€
His hands will be calloused, Smith says, or just plain “gnarled,†as Marcinko puts it. And “he’s got frag in him somewhere,†Marcinko says, using the battlefield shorthand for “fragments†of bullets or explosive devices. This will not have been the shooter’s first adventure. Marcinko estimates that he might have made a dozen or more deployments, tours when he was likely to have run afoul of grenades, improvised explosive devices or bullets.
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