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Dick Couch, a 1967 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, served aboard ship and with the Navy UDT and SEAL teams. While a platoon commander with SEAL Team One in 1970, he led one of the few successful POW rescue operations of the Vietnam War. On release from active duty in 1972, he served with the Central Intelligence Agency as a case officer. He retired from the Naval Reserve in 1997 as the senior reserve SEAL officer with the rank of captain. He is the author of six novels -- SEAL Team One, Pressure Point, Silent Descent, Rising Wind, The Mercenary Option, and Covert Action -- and the nonfiction works The Warrior Elite, The Finishing School, and Down Range. He lives... Read full bio

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Gorman Skips Business Tomes as Jain Recommends Faulks: Best Books of 2012
Bloomberg, December 4, 2012
...John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: “The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228” by Dick Couch. My focus or interest is on human resilience. If we were better suited to survival and moving forward, then we would recover faster....
Gorman Skips Business, Jain Likes Faulks: Best Books of 2012
Bloomberg, December 4, 2012
...John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: “The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228” by Dick Couch. My focus or interest is on human resilience. If we were better suited to survival and moving forward, then we would recover faster....
Pentagon kept out of the loop on book about killing of bin Laden
The Independent, August 23, 2012
...his campaign of going too far to exploit the success of the mission for re-election purposes.� � Dick Couch, a former Navy Seal captain and author, cautioned against judging the book before its release but conceded that it could be problematic...
First read: To everything there is a season, a time for war books
Home News Tribune, July 21, 2012
...Japanese battleship. Oh, and we won that war. SUA SPONTE: THE FORGING OF A MODERN AMERICAN RANGER by Dick Couch (Berkley Caliber, $26.95) The Latin phrase basically means of their own accord, and one assumes that Army Rangers do that within the...
Prendergast Library Announces Recent Acquisitions
Jamestown Post-Journal, July 20, 2012
...Guide to Knives" by Roger Eckstine "Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry" by Glenn Drowns "Sua Sponte" by Dick Couch "That Woman" by Anne Sebba "Too Much Magic" by James Howard Kunstler "Twilight of the Elites" by Christopher Hayes "Watergate" by...
Hypertherm Acquires AccuStream Waterjet Products Company
ThomasNet, January 8, 2013
...highly precise cutting products makes the company a perfect fit for Hypertherm," said Hypertherm founder and CEO Dick Couch. "We believe waterjet cutting is an excellent complement to Hypertherm's existing plasma and fiber laser technologies and look...
Hypertherm acquires waterjet products company
Metalworking Production Purchasing Magazine, January 4, 2013
...reliable, highly precise cutting products makes the company a perfect fit for Hypertherm,” said Hypertherm founder and CEO Dick Couch. “We believe waterjet cutting is an excellent complement to Hypertherm’s existing plasma and fiber laser...
A Rare Medium Well Done: 1.4.13
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, January 4, 2013
...Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards (how he’s alive is a medical marvel). ‘Chosen Soldier’ by Navy SEAL Dick Couch. And a fascinating read entitled ‘Deadly Secrets’ by Warren Hinckle & William Turner. A startling look at the CIA/Mafia...
Hypertherm Acquires AccuStream Waterjet Products Company
Manufacturing.net, January 3, 2013
...reliable, highly precise cutting products makes the company a perfect fit for Hypertherm,” said Hypertherm founder and CEO Dick Couch. “We believe waterjet cutting is an excellent complement to Hypertherm’s existing plasma and fiber laser...
Hypertherm acquires AccuStream waterjet products company
Fabricator, January 3, 2013
...highly precise cutting products makes the company a perfect fit for Hypertherm," said Hypertherm founder and CEO Dick Couch. "We believe waterjet cutting is an excellent complement to Hypertherm's existing plasma and fiber laser technologies and look...
Gorman Skips Business Tomes as Jain Recommends Faulks: Best Books of 2012
Bloomberg, December 4, 2012
...John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: “The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228” by Dick Couch. My focus or interest is on human resilience. If we were better suited to survival and moving forward, then we would recover faster....
Gorman Skips Business, Jain Likes Faulks: Best Books of 2012
BusinessWeek, December 4, 2012
...John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: “The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228” by Dick Couch. My focus or interest is on human resilience. If we were better suited to survival and moving forward, then we would recover faster....