Charity's Reviews > Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs

It is obvious this work was a collaboration with the disgruntled SEALs of Team 7, which if fine, if the book would have been marketed that way. It is anything but an unbiased and critical review of events. The book reads like a Shamwow commercial of jealous school boys ratting out their headmaster, and when the first thing doesn’t stick it’s, “but wait, there’s more!” With the release of deployment videos, trial audio, and mounds of evidence this book is just silliness at this point.

For instance, why didn’t SEAL command step in if there’s an off the charts rogue Chief making his men sit in humvees, “like dogs at Walmart,” while he shoots at everything and nothing? How did the operation achieve success, much less ahead of schedule, if it was this dysfunctional or the Chief just sat around shooting at everything and nothing all day?

Their answer, “Alazzawi had bigger things to worry about. He was overseeing three platoons in Iraq, and the other two teams of so-called elite commandos were barely functioning.” So essentially, every other SEAL and SEAL Team in Mosul was incompetent and “barely functioning” except these 6 whiny bitches on SEAL Team 7. Really? Come on?

Gentlemen, you’re an embarrassment to our nation.