Morality and Brotherhood The sense of morality and brotherhood is displayed throughout the book through physical and emotional means. As part of a tier one team, Wasdin and his fellow operators highly depend on one another like brothers in a family. Another sense of being a Seal Team Six member is high discipline in which the members are intelligent to decide if he should kill a group of armed enemies or take them as prisoner. Both of these examples are shown in Special Operatives of other people and ever since Wasdin started Seal training to his missions in Operation Desert Shield. The first time the theme of brotherhood was shown was during Wasdin’s Navy Seal training at BUD/S. This was the first stage at which Wasdin had to start trusting into his teammates more and more every day. While outside naked on the freezing ground and Lieutenants spraying water on them, Howards buddy named Mike had to go pee badly so instead of holding it, he peed onto Howards hands …show more content…
Wasdin could’ve easily put several bullets into this man however Wasdin just disarmed the man and put him into place. “He lunged at me with his fire extinguisher, Damn, I sidestepped just as the fire extinguisher glanced off the side of my head…. I caught him sideways and buried the muzzle of my MP-5 under his right ear” (Wasdin 128). Any soldier would’ve been eager to shoot this man for attacking him or any teammates however the sincerity Seal Team Six had was great enough to keep the man alive and save ammo. Another example of morality was when Wasdin and Casanova were in Somalia, they saw a young boy with an awful infection and decided to help him. They witnessed the boy sleeping outside due to the putrid smell of the infection the boy had on his right leg. “We scrubbed the dead tissue out of the wounds with betaline, a cleaner and disinfectant” (Wasdin