Ben Milligan- Special Operators, Innovators, and Underdogs
From The Green Notebook
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The Rise of the Navy Seals
Milton Miles was kicked out of the Naval Academy for poor eyesight. He graduated the Naval Academy and they wouldn't give him his commission because of, you know, bad eyesight. Mary Miles had advocated in some sort of relationship with the nationalist Chinese government during World War II. Could you share the role that Mary played in the rise of the Navy Seals? Yeah. I didn't want to tell Mary's story. It took me 18 months to write chapters one through five which took me from the Marine Corps Raiders all the way to telling the story of the UDT.
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