He also happens to be one of the toughest and most accomplished special operations commandos this nation has ever produced. His duties have included repelling off helicopters as part of the U.S. led effort to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991, to having been shot multiple times attempting to end warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid’s oppressive rule in Mogadishu, Somalia. Wasdin epitomizes the kind of almost superhuman effort synonymous with the Navy SEALS. In SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper, Wasdin recounts how an abused kid from the rural South rose to become one of Uncle Sam’s “ultimate weapons.”