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- "We're about to deploy," one of Adam's closest SEAL buddies said as we began our interview in June.†
p. 3.4deploy = place or activate
- On a previous deployment, Adam had written in his journal to both Nathan and Savannah, Nathan's seven-year-old sister, a letter they weren't meant to see unless the worst happened: I'm not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this Earth because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me....How much it pains me...to think about not watching my boy excel in life, or giving my little baby girl away in marriage....Buddy, I'll be there, you'll feel me there when you steal your first base, smash someone on the football field, make all A's.†
p. 4.5deployment = placing or activating
- When Adam's team deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom in March 2010, the SEALs were spread across Afghanistan to cover a range of responsibilities dictated to them by the generals and admirals in charge of strategic operations.†
p. 5.8deployed = placed or activated
- Confirming details of the landscape and structures was always difficult until the SEALs were on the ground, but the target residence didn't appear any more problematic than the hundreds of other compounds they'd raided during multiple deployments.†
p. 6.8deployments = instances of placing or activating
- Returning home from his tour in time for the arrival of their first child, Larry Shawn Brown, on December 13, 1968, he deployed again less than a year later.†
p. 11.9deployed = placed or activated
- The following morning, more than a hundred SEALs from Team FOUR stood at quarters: the once-a-week gathering where all platoons not deployed or training elsewhere stand in formation and receive official information from the master chiefs.†
p. 129.2
- At the beginning of May, Christian and Adam were tasked with supporting an Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE), the "final exam" for a SEAL platoon after its twelve-month workup—intense cumulative training exercises that prepare them for deployment into the real world.†
p. 130.1deployment = placing or activating
- These sister platoons trained and deployed together as a single "task unit"—one of six such units on SEAL Team FOUR.†
p. 140.7deployed = placed or activated
- This was the rapidly deployable, highly elite counterterrorism unit the Navy had created as a result of the failed hostage rescue mission in Iran in 1980, when Adam was six years old.†
p. 142.1deployable = capable of being placed or activatedstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- On the day Golf and Hotel Platoons passed their final ORE drills and were officially ready to deploy, Chief Harley stood before his men.†
p. 151.7deploy = place or activate
- That was where they were going for a six-month deployment.†
p. 151.9deployment = placing or activating
- Adam had expected to be somewhere in South or Central America for Christmas 2001, but an initiative known as Force XXI—a massive reorganization of the United States military—had prompted the Navy's top brass to rethink the SEAL teams' areas of focus, organizational structure, and deployment schedules.†
p. 153.8
- Led by Chief Harley, Golf and Hotel Platoons became Team TWO'S South and Central American task unit, a reorganization that postponed their deployment and added six more months of training.†
p. 154.2
- The hunt for Osama bin Laden had begun, and while Adam assured his family that his first deployment would be to South America, he didn't hide his enthusiasm for getting into the fight in Afghanistan as soon as possible.†
p. 154.9
- ON APRIL 3, 2002, KELLEY DROVE ADAM, now Petty Officer Second Class Brown, to the SEAL Team TWO compound at Little Creek to see him off on his first deployment.†
p. 156.1
- Adam gave Kelley a long hug and kiss and rubbed her stomach, which was barely showing a bump; the baby was due at the end of Adam's deployment.†
p. 156.7
- Everyone who came by Janice and Larry's to congratulate the family of four also wanted to hear about what Adam had done while deployed.†
p. 157.8deployed = placed or activated
- A lieutenant who was the officer in charge during Adam's first deployment—which included joint training missions with host-nation military in Puerto Rico, Suriname, and St. Croix, and counterdrug missions in Ecuador—described Adam in his next evaluation as "a hard-charging SEAL operator.†
p. 159.4deployment = placing or activating
- Adam's superior, another lieutenant, noted in his March 25 evaluation that Adam was a "proven, tactically proficient operator" and that he had been selected as "operator of the quarter" due to his performance while deployed.†
p. 162.2deployed = placed or activated
- Now six months into his second platoon's workup, with war being waged on two fronts, Adam was virtually guaranteed deployment to a combat zone of a war he fervently believed in.†
p. 162.4deployment = placing or activating
- On a Friday in late June, Adam and Kelley went out for a night of pizza and bowling with Christian, Paul, Austin, their wives—all of whom had been pregnant during the South American deployment—and children ranging in age from a few months to Nathan, the oldest at three.†
p. 164.6
- Adam's task unit was scheduled to deploy to Iraq in April 2004.†
p. 171.2deploy = place or activate
- He flew to Baghdad for a six-month deployment, and upon his arrival, Adam's superiors decided that his limited vision was a liability.†
p. 171.8deployment = placing or activating
- Knowing how SEALs operate and with a keen sense for strategy, he "developed a systematic approach for intelligence and operations fusion," wrote his commanding officer in evaluating Adam's performance after the deployment.†
p. 172.8
- It was so important to her that their children understand their father's efforts in the war that Kelley had given Adam a journal before he deployed and made him promise to write about his experiences.†
p. 173.6deployed = placed or activated
- He didn't want to leave us, but we agreed: go home, try to get your vision back with surgery, and gear up for the next deployment.†
p. 178.1deployment = placing or activating
- Then one of the guys on Team TWO who was about to deploy offered to let us stay in his condo, his air-conditioned condo, and we jumped on it.†
p. 180.1deploy = place or activate
- The deferral meant further experience as a SEAL, another platoon, another deployment, and more time for Adam to either regain his sight fully or adapt to living and working with near blindness in his right eye.†
p. 181.4deployment = placing or activating
- As Adam dived into the workup for his next deployment with Team TWO, Christian and Austin sweated out the Green Team selection process.†
p. 183.9
- For this deployment, Adam's third and his second to a combat zone, he had been cleared for direct action, having proven that his virtually blind eye was not a liability.†
p. 186.3
- She kept them in her wallet and reread them whenever she needed a lift—and by the end of Adam's first month of deployment, the once crisp papers were like those in their family Bible, worn and soft.†
p. 187.5
- At the memorial service for the fallen SEALs, Captain Van Hooser had defined what coalition forces were up against in the landlocked country where Adam was deployed: The enemy we face in Afghanistan is as hard and tough as the land they inhabit.†
p. 187.6deployed = placed or activated
- We'd known he was going to Green Team after this deployment.†
p. 194.6deployment = placing or activating
- The most stable way to fall is "belly to earth," the position to be in when the rip cord is pulled to deploy the parachute.†
p. 207.1deploy = place or activate
- If a person's body is sideways, upside down, feetfirst—any way but flat, smooth, belly to earth—when the chute is deployed, the situation becomes very dangerous.†
p. 207.2deployed = placed or activated
- Most free-fall fatalities result from improper chute deployment.†
p. 207.3deployment = placing or activating
- The chute was deploying behind and beside him.†
p. 207.5
- You're better off hitting the ground than deploying here—then at least you don't take someone else with you.†
p. 207.7 *
- Each had a month of block leave and would be deployed, on standby alert, or training for the remaining eleven months.†
p. 212.5deployed = placed or activated
- By definition among the brotherhood, Adam was a "hunter" employed by a unit that did not officially exist, and so it was fitting that his first deployment abroad as a DEVGRU SEAL had landed him in what was described by a teammate as the "vague, mysterious, even shadowy" Kunar Valley, filled with enemy combatants dug into the surrounding mountains, blending among the populace in the villages and using the river valley as a highway from Pakistan to Afghanistan.†
p. 213.9deployment = placing or activating
- Adam had learned early in his deployment that two distinct battles were waging in Afghanistan: One was against the terrorist population, primarily al Qaeda but also a plethora of Islamic extremists, both foreign and domestic.†
p. 215.4
- No matter the time of day when Adam returned from a deployment, Kelley piled Nathan and Savannah into the car to pick him up at the compound gate.†
p. 218.3
- After his most recent deployment to Afghanistan, Adam did "repeat something he'd told me before, something that got reinforced when he was over there," says Kelley.†
p. 218.9
- Three months later, Christian was getting ready to deploy to Iraq with his squadron when he asked Adam to have a beer with him.†
p. 220.3deploy = place or activate
- I've been cheating on Becky, and I wanted to come clean to you before I deploy.†
p. 220.7
- I'm going to tell her after this deployment.†
p. 220.9deployment = placing or activating
- Adam's squadron deployed without him in mid-January.†
p. 224.7deployed = placed or activated
- He hoped to join them in the middle of February; in the meantime he acted as his squadron's operations chief, a position that some describe as a lifeline between the deployed squadron and headquarters, supporting everything from the mission abroad to urgent family matters.†
p. 224.8
- But in 2008 Paul Jacobs was deployed, and Christian and Becky Taylor had separated after Becky pieced together the affair and moved his belongings into storage; neither was feeling particularly social.†
p. 225.1
- On Adam's first run up "PT hill," the workout he'd done dozens of times on his previous deployment, a light rain turned to hail near the summit, painting the trail white.†
p. 242.8deployment = placing or activating
Definitions:
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(1)
(deploy) to place or activate a resource
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)