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Sua Sponte
Latin for “Of Their Own Accord”
The MOTTO OF THE 75TH RANGER REGIMENT
The 75th Ranger Regiment is a unique and distinct culture among the American military establishment. They stand alone, even among our other Special Operations forces, as the most active brigade-sized force in the current Global War on Terrorism. Since 9/11, The Regiment is the only continuously-engaged unit in the Army, and has had forty percent of its number deployed in harm’s way for the last decade. Their mission is unique. Rangers do not patrol, they don’t train allied forces, nor do they engage in routine counterinsurgency duties. They have a single-mission focus; they seek out the enemy and they capture or kill them. It sets Rangers apart as pure, direct-action warriors.
Army Rangers are not born. They are made. The modern 75th Ranger Regiment represents the culmination of 250 years of American soldiering. As the nation’s oldest standing military unit, The Regiment traces its origins to Richard Rogers’ Rangers during the pre-revolutionary French and Indian War, through the likes of Francis Marion and John Mosby, to the five active Ranger battalions of the Second World War, and finally, to the four battalions of the current Ranger regiment engaged in modern combat. Over that period, a standard of professional excellence and the forging of that excellence is distilled in the selection, assessment, and training of today’s Rangers.
Granted unprecedented access to the training of this highly-restricted component of America’s Special Operations Forces in a time of war, retired Navy Captain Dick Couch tells the personal story of the young men who begin this difficult and dangerous journey to become a Ranger. Many will try but only a select few will survive to serve in the 75th ranger regiment. Sua Sponte follows a group of these aspiring young warriors through the crucible that is ranger training and their preparation for direct-action missions in Afghanistan against the Taliban.
- Sales Rank: #160723 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Berkley
- Published on: 2012-07-03
- Released on: 2012-07-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.20" h x 5.80" w x 8.90" l, 1.35 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
“For 250 years, Rangers have stepped forward to take on the toughest and most dangerous missions to defend America. Dick Couch has done us all a favor by taking us inside the way in which we select and train our contemporary Rangers. I read this book swelling with admiration for the young men who volunteer to serve in the Ranger Regiment. They deserve our heartfelt thanks for their service, just as Dick Couch deserves our thanks for Sua Sponte and this engaging 'insiders’ account.”-- Dr. Andrew Exum, author of This Man's Army
"An outstanding read for anyone considering the very challenging physical and mental rigors and high standards required to be part of this elite 'Brotherhood.'"-- Tim Abell, Actor/Producer and 2/75 Ranger
"Sua Sponte is a detailed and vivid look at how the Army Rangers train for war. Couch’s nuts-and-bolts narrative is well-told with the perspective of an experienced special operator. He knows what he’s looking at and reports it faithfully. It is informative and at times moving. Readers will learn what it takes to be an elite soldier, and how much work it takes to earn the title ‘Ranger.’" -- Larry Bond, author of Exit Plan
About the Author
A 1967 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Dick Couch served with the Navy Underwater Demolition and SEAL Teams. He led one of the only successful POW rescue operations of the Vietnam War, while a platoon leader with SEAL Team One in 1970.
On release from active duty in 1972, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as a Maritime Operations Officer. He retired from the Naval Reserve in 1997 with the rank of captain. The author of numerous books and articles on military special operations, he serves as a consultant and keynote speaker on issues of tactical ethics and moral battlefield conduct. Dick and his wife Julia live in Idaho.
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent book, excellent author, terrible editor
By Alan Rosenhan
I really enjoy Dick Couch's writing. He has a really easy-to-read style that isn't as dumbed down as C.B. Colby back in the day. This book is extremely informative and fun to read. It gives a really human insight into the Rangers that people don't often get. Even (especially?) Soldiers often elevate these guys to godlike status, and makes them seem completely aloof and inaccessible. Dick Couch makes them accessible, without dragging them down to a level of not being special anymore, because the Rangers are the best on the planet at what they do, make no mistake about that.
The only complaint I have about the book was the lack of editing. I want to mark up every error in the book and send it back to the publisher. The first 100 pages are rife with so many factual errors that they distract from the fine content of the book. It's not anything big that would make you think Couch made anything up, they are a large number of simple errors like saying that Darby did not live to see D-Day, when he was in fact in Washington with the War Department and didn't die until 1945 (perhaps the meaning was Darby wasn't in Europe to see D-Day?), and that the British were defeating Francis Marion in South Carolina in 1881.
I don't want to discredit the book, I really enjoyed it, I just hope the second printing shows more attention to detail befitting the Rangers. Mr. Couch, if you need a better editor, I would be happy to work for you!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Documentary Book
By Sports Family
Excellent description of rigorous trading and the integration of core values... Captain Couch's insights add to the overall story of Ranger training...
38 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
Good Enough, I Suppose
By Thomas E.
Dick Couch is a retired United States Navy SEAL. He has written on various special operations forces, focusing mainly on his own SEAL community, coming from a position of a veteran who served in Vietnam and has watched the various entities that make up this world evolve. He teaches at the Naval Academy, and therefore has a certain view and viewpoint of those who aspire to be officers in one of our larger military branches.
First, allow me to address what Sua Sponte is not. It is not a discussion, or even description, of what the 75th Ranger Regiment is doing in the war on terrorism. It is not a biography of an Army unit that has been incredibly busy over the last 11 years. This operational tempo is touched on, but never fully explored. There is no discussion of the night raids that make up such a large part of the war in Afghanistan now, and in which the Regiment plays a huge part. There is no mention of the Ranger QRF that accompanied NAVSPECWARDEVGRU into Pakistan to accomplish the hit on UBL. Pat Tillman, the most famous Ranger of this current period of warfare is not mentioned at all. General Stanley McChrystal, a former commander of 3rd Ranger Battalion and the whole Regiment, does not make the pages. In the same way that his previous books such as "The Sheriff of Ramadi" avoid the mention of anything controversial or outside a very straight-line narrative, this one sticks to its guns.
Sua Sponte does a phenomenal job of explaining how Ranger Assessment and Selection Program works. There is some wave top covering of the Fort Benning, GA basic training program, along with jump school, and the army's infantry training program. Then it goes into RASP and its two components. Eventually there is some mention of Ranger School, and it is clear that he has interviewed senior leadership of both the 75th Ranger Regiment as well as the Ranger Training Brigade from the knowledge woven into the book. But do not go into this expecting to learn something existential about the Rangers, the training, or the way of life. This book toes the company line.
It is probably valuable to compare Sua Sponte to "Making The Corps" by Thomas Ricks. Both describe an entry level training program, but Ricks has no buy-in to the community. Sua Sponte is a book makes clear where the flaws in the program are (the Ranger swimming test is administered early, and eliminates most minorities from the training pipeline, as an example), but does not offer any discussion of these issues, or offer solutions to any policy makers or interested readers. Everybody interviewed is motivated, inspired, and a shining example of a great American warrior. At one point one of the RASP Cadre admonishes the others to "pressure on, profanity down, and keep it impersonal." That's this book, in a nutshell.
A reader who is not familiar at all with military training will come away impressed by what young Rangers do, and how much they work to earn the right to wear the tan berets, something that nobody should diminish. But the story is impersonal, clearly stilted, and not told at a personal, skin-to-skin level. The conversations are stilted, the responses clearly either canned, or not given freely to a retired O6 officer. The story moves on to a Ranger battalion and company preparing for deployment, which involves plenty of time in the field, plenty of shooting, plenty of the things that make young men want to join up. Even here the story fails to excite, as it is simply a telling of the occurrence without passion. It is clear that Mr. Couch is impressed by his young observants, but also that he understands that his is how special operations works. Hard work, continuously executed, creates hard core fighters. He is just not able to bridge the gap. There is discussion of a Ranger company after it returns, and you will find nuggets throughout on how hard the war is on Ranger families, those that make the ultimate sacrifice, and brief paragraphs about the families left behind when these men go to war.
In the end, this book tells the story of how a modern Ranger is forged, as it says on the cover. It does not tell the story of the 75th Ranger Regiment at war, a story in desperate need of telling. Couch has access, both through his previous writings, his title as a Navy Captain, and as a member of the Special Operations Tribe. He understands classified material and how to handle secrets. I think this frequently makes him to cautious, and his stories are too cheerleader like. If you are looking for a book that tells you how to make a Ranger, this is it. If you are looking for a warm look at america's elite light infantry in home port, this is it. If you want a discussion of an elite raiding force in modern warfare, this is not it.
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