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This is Richard Marcinko.
And he is one, bad dude.
I’ll give you the short version.
He is a Navy SEAL who was so successful during the Vietnam war that the North Vietnamese army had a special bounty on his head.
His most notable credential though is that he is the founder and original leader of SEAL Team 6 (a team my dad led in the early 2000’s).
Part of founding this team involved securing high-level equipment and supplies for training and missions.
Years later, he was convicted of getting a $100,000 kickback from an arms dealer in exchange for getting them a contract on hand grenades. (Military contracts are huge, huge dollars in the US.)
He then went on to serve an 18-month prison sentence.
A few months after he was released from jail, I met him in a hotel hallway while with my Dad.
When I met Marcinko. I remember him being this burly, intimidating wild man. He came out of prison a bit different. He’s been in a lot of prison fights apparently. And won.
He’s relatively calm now. And I have nothing but respect for the guy.
Interestingly though, in that hallway I met him in as an 8-year-old boy, he was finishing his first autobiography:
Which went on to become a massively successful NYT #1 bestseller.
Long before all these Navy SEAL books and movies came out, Rogue Warrior was the Navy SEAL book.
That book was made into a video game and Marcinko went on to write a bunch of other novels about special forces operations.
He now has a ranch in Virginia which I’ve been to once. And hopefully will again.
True story - when you pull into his ranch, there is this sign on the gate:
Lifehack: don’t break into a Navy SEAL’s home. And definitely not Marcinko’s.
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