A Personality Question for Mr. Caracci

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AlecWire

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Mr. Caracci,

I'm a great fan of Richard Marcinco's "Rogue Warrior" books and was wondering if you had an opinion on either the man or the series. Are they accurate? Do you know Mr. Marcinco?

Specifically, I am curious about Red Cell, the unit that Mr. Marcinco created to test the Navy's preparedness for terrorism. Do you have any thoughts on that? Is it currently active? Is there likely to be any rethinking of it's utility in today's post 9/11 world?

-Alec Wire
 
i like them too - the first one is a biography, pretty accurate, the others are fiction, weapons, etc pretty real, scenarios not (i don t think anyway) but pretty authentic tactics, etc too - in the first book he said all members of '6' bench pressed 400+, i doubt that though - but a pretty darned cool series of books imho - one of my best buds lives in alaska, and one of his neighbors was in the seals, wrote a book, 'navy seal', i think was the name, by col. ? i can 't think now , but anyway he went to a reunion in north carolina (?) in about '95 and met marcinco and the guest of honor, carlos hathcock - he got books autographed, etc and drank lots of beer lol - but i would like to here what ya got to say about him too, CJ


greg
 
Alec,
I have an opinion for you but please understand this does not make Seal Team Six or Mr. Marcinko open forum topics, these things are generally not open to public discussion. I will however make an exception this time. In the future you may ask what you want but if I do not answer please do not ask again.
Mr. Marcinko was one of the finest leaders I have ever had the pleasure to work with. He was always beyond the norm in vision. He constantly thought out of the box and as is for the best frogmen, was always mission oriented. These traits although necessary to the operator, must be kept in check for an officer. The military does not generally care for officers in the Spec. War community, let alone a truly openly independent thinker such as he. This would be and is highly dangerous for an officer's career.
I will say that had Mr. Marcinko's vision of Six been allowed to mature I believe that events like September 11, would have been very hard pressed to happen. This Teams potential was unlike anything we had ever seen before and I doubt if we will ever see it again.
Men like him do not grow on trees if they did they would have to be very big ones!

As far as the books go, Rogue Warrior and Red Cell are very accurate.
I was on Six during the last year of Mr. Marcinko's tenure I was not part of Red Cell although many of my Sea Brothers were. During my time as a Police Officer I often opened my training facilities to my brothers, sometimes even our Army counterparts. My blood brother recently retired from the special team (what Six became) and so between him and my Sea Brothers I have been fairly well informed over the years.
 
As you can see, I'm a newbie. All apologies, I had no knowledge that this sort of topic was verboten. I won't make the same mistake twice.

-Alec Wire
 
The founder and first commander of the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) knows Mr. Marcinko quite well.

He told me not long ago he believes Marcinko is perhaps the smartest man he enjoyed meeting and working with when it comes to special operations.

Quite a compliment given the source's own extraordinary career in both law enforcement and spec.ops.

You can read his book. It's titled "NO HEROES - Inside the FBI's Secret Counter Terror Force" by Danny O. Coulson. A great read, by the way:D
 
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