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摘要

High in the Caribbean night, Dick Marcinko shouted profanities. After five months of training, culminating in early 1981, his clandestine strike force-the nation's first terrorist hit squad-is parachuting into Vieques Island, a scrub-jungle rock near Puerto Rico. Their inaugural mission: snatch a hostage back from Los Macheteros, a militant nationalist group. But there's a hitch. Marcinko's parachute malfunctioned, sending the commander whistling off-course and face-first into a tree. "It was a good hurt," he would later write, "the kind that made me feel I was alive." Once on the ground, he punched his executive officer in the shoulder and gave the order. "Let's go hunting."