Fortune Favors The Brave The Story Of First Force Recon by Bruce F. Meyers 2004 312 pages At the end of World War II, when daring Marine reconnaissance units made a life-and-death difference in island warfare in the Pacific, a secret unit was formed inside the military. With courageous men risking their lives, Test Unit 1 experimented with new ways of inserting Marines behind enemy lines - by sea and by land - and then getting them out again. As America barreled towards a confrontation in Indochina and a new era of warfare, First Recon was born ... This is the untold, inside story of a super-elite reconnaissance force - U.S. Special Operations Forces who practiced clandestine insertion and extraction by submarine, jet aircraft and helicopter, using tools and techniques that had never been tried before. Strapping you in the harness of a HALO parachute, launching from the torpedo room of a submerged submarine or climbing the extraction rig of a hovering Marine chopper, Fortune Favors The Brave is a firsthand acount of what it was like to build a new strike force from the ground up ... to make sure that the next time America fought a war, Force Recon would be ther.