Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

“Let’s get it on.” A SEAL turret gunner looks across his M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun out
Ogden Gate into enemy territory beyond. The giant tank-track vehicle (M88 Recovery Vehicle)
blocking the entrance to Camp Ramadi was used to deter the enemy’s most devastating
weapon—the car bomb or VBIED with several thousand pounds of explosives driven by a
suicide bomber. Beyond the gate, the threat in the city was immense—and no one felt that
more than the lead turret gunner in the first Humvee during a daytime mounted patrol.
(Photo courtesy of the authors)