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Dick Marcinko Navy Seal

Posted on December 31, 2021December 31, 2021

December, 2021.

Dick Marcinko dead at 81.

For a while, when I ran Close Quarter Combat Magazine in the late 90s and early 2000s, I was friends with Navy Seal Harry Constance of the “Good To Go,” book. As a result of knowing Harry, some of those visits I met Dick Marcinko through Harry and few other SEALS at two of their gatherings-events.

Marcinko was quite the drinker at that time period, and the first time we met he showed up walloped. And funny, I recall the intense, thick unshaven beard that night. I mean he looked like a caveman as his beard started at his eyebags on down like sod. Next day though, he was dried out and book-cover shaved, spit and polished.

We talked at these times and this started a email relationship back then as he had periodic questions about martial arts, I presumed for his novels and I would get the occasional email question on the topic. But most all those Rogue Warrior Novels were written with/by a friend of his named John Weisman. I recall that a number of readers thought these novels were true stories. I cannot remember for sure, but we may have run an article on him in CQC Magazine.

Dick got real busy with SOS Temps, a contracting company which later became Red Cell International. He had a variety of fiction and non-fiction books, a radio show and did various endorsements and consultancies, one was for the old 24 TV show. Harry Constance died a while back. And now Dick.

You will hear a lot of good and bad about Marcinko, and I have heard all that first hand from his mates themselves, but he was certainly a mover, a shaker, and colorful, hard charging character.

For more- https://www.navytimes.com/breaking-news/2021/12/26/richard-marcinko-first-commanding-officer-of-seal-team-six-dies/?fbclid=IwAR32rgb3IbhRIaoaJiZk1Qg1DeaPs33IIxSh13-bYsMtJ3J1DTqsHJKEWdA

 

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