Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom

Author - Jerry Boykin ... [Goo?] [Posters]
Lynn Vincent ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from FaithWords was reviewed on 9-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom by FaithWords. This book kept me awake during a loooooong international trip last week.

Boykin is a real modern-day hero who took hits from both outside (arm nearly blown off) and inside the USA (from the president himself).

Well written, easy to read, inspiring, honest.¤

2) Hardcover Book Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom by FaithWords. Great book! I could not put it down.

If you are a Christian and ever asked, "How do I live out my faith in the workplace?," this will be an inspiring book for you.¤

3) Hardcover Book Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom by FaithWords. This is an excellent book about a real american hero. While not revealing operations secrets, the General shares his stories with us in an almost conversational manner. Highly recommend it.¤

4) Hardcover Book Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom by FaithWords. Guilty until proved innocent. His crime? Being an Evangelical in America. Everybody knows Evangelical Christians aren´t to take advantage of free speech; free speech is only meant for the self-righteous Left... right? Irony aside, the Leftist media found Boykin guilty without hearing him out.

This is the story of another soldier who found his nemesis in the Leftist media instead of in druglord Pablo Escobar, Pineapple Noriega of Panamá, or among the gun-crazies of Somalia. No, these are almost cartoon enemies compared to the ones at home. The media crucified him, like they did with black judge Clarence Thomas, only Thomas did´t even have his black ´friends´ to back him out. Who needs an enemy with friends like us?!

Anyways, this is also the story of Delta Force. It´s no about politics at all, but about the aftermath of politics being played on regular guys. A personal journey of a man who fought within and without himself to reconcile his personal faith in a Christian God with serving in America´s professional armed forces.

It´s a story at times sad, but only at times, because one can feel throughout the book that despite the elites of the US forsaking him, his God never did, and in the end it was worth it. Amen to that. Pages 175-6 are the two funniest pages I have read in many years. A delicatessen.

A lesson out of Mogadishu, Somalia: "Our view was just the opposite (of Clinton´s): If you´re going to commit the military to combat, go all the way, make the full commitment, and be prepared to accept the cost in human lives. If the men doing the dying were prepared to accept it, then the men in air-conditioned meetings ought to accept it, too." I thought we had learned this after Vietnam, but alas!

Happily Boykin came out clean when finally they left him talk (talk... will they ever let us talk? ...truth hurts, it´s dangerous): "The Left can scream all it wants that war on terror is about oil or American imperialism, or G.W.Bush´s personal amusement. That if we weren´t such big, bad bullies, the poor third world jihadists wouldn´t have attacked us, and the French would like us better. But w are not the bad guys. Out motto is life and liberty." Well said. Let´s never forget that.

God made us free. Let´s mean every word.¤

5) Hardcover Book Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom by FaithWords. Where do I begin? How bout the courageous f**k-up at Son Tay (1970).
It´s very clear that leaks from the Foggy Bottom boys screwed up
this mission by warning NV about the raid which Nixon and (especially)
Kissinger did not want to succeed.
Mission Recap: No prisoners were found at Son Tay, lots of bad
guys killed and supposedly no friendlies killed---although other people
said there were people left behind. Fog of War.
Unofficially, Bull Simons and SF grunts were very pissed at their
lack of mission input, lack of up to date intel and mission security.

Bull Simons? Isn´t he the one who rescued two of Ross Perot´s EDS
employees in 1979? Yep! Unlike the Son Tay screw-up, Bull had total control of this merc mission from start to finish with very few people
´in the loop´ to compromise security; PLUS, the Feds---especially the Foggy Bottom boys were given no info about this mission til after the
mission.

Mission Recap: 2 EDS personnel resuced with about 11,000 Iranian
prisoners escaping as cover AND no good guys dying!

1980´s Debacle in the Desert? Another Delta Farce, Glory Hound Debacle.
The 1st Sunday after this gold plated mess, I met at church with SF
Col. Taylor.

Mission Recap: Nobody rescued, good guys dying, and Iranians
laughing. Weeks later we found out how micro-f**ked this mission was
by Carter and the boys at Soggy Bottom (Pentagon Pukes): The helo crews
were ordered-ORDERED OVER THEIR OBJECTIONS---to remove the sand filters
from their helicopter engines (!) to ´increase range´ and more unbelievable cr*p.

Col. Taylor? Isn´t he the guy who planned and executed a rescue mission,
Code Name: Dragon, to rescue men, women and children from Congolese
rebels in the early 60s? Yep!

Mission Recap: About 200 people safely rescued from deep in rebel
territory, no good guys dying and hundreds of brave, heavily armed thugs
killed. (Col. Taylor and his mission remind me of Richard Burton and
the movie: Wild Geese.)

Ruby Ridge? Mission Recap: One dead boy, one dead dog, and one dead
mother getting her head blown apart as she was breast feeding her child---
and one ´good guy´ dying. This Delta-FBI-ATF goatf**k was prevented
from killing Weaver and the rest of his family by Bo Gritz.

Bo Gritz? Isn´t Col. Gritz the SF officer who successfully led hundreds
of Hill People in raids against NVA, Viet Cong, Pathet Lao and other Commie bad guys for years in SE Asia? Didn´t he try to rescue known
POWs from Commie prison camps but was so thwarted by REMFs in DC that he
went public with his ´War against Hanoi and Washington?´
Didn´t Gritz try to stop the slaughter at Waco like he did at Ruby Ridge?

Waco? Isn´t that where Delta-FBI-ATF Glory Hounds wanted to kill everyone
at the Davidian compound to make up for not destroying everybody at Ruby
Ridge? Yep! Under threat of arrest---or worse---Col. Gritz (USArmy retired) was removed from the area surrounding the Davidian compound
so that the ´good guys´ could ´Do their stuff.´ And did.

Mission Recap: About 80 men, women and children bar-b-qued or shot
by the ´good guys´ as they tried to escape the Fed started fires.
F-Troop ´good guys´ dying---mainly from ´friendly fire.´ Then lying.
Lots of F-Troop and Delta lying. Shoulda been wired for sound; or,
at least polygraphed. Anyway...
(See: Waco: Rules of Engagement.)

Although there were great SF successes in Afghanistan, most of those
were not Delta. In fact, the Deltas were so messed up by the high
altitude fighting that they had to be rescued a few times.

Didn´t Delta screw up so many times that when a British SAS unit accidently came up Bin Laden and friends post 9-11, that the REMFs in
DC forbade SAS from engaging bin Laden and his force? The SAS unit
was told to maintain contact til a Delta Team could be inserted so Delta
could get credit? Glory, Glory, Glory Hallaluyah! ...

So, Delta, Whut happened?

If you notice in Boykin´s book, you always see him clean shaven.
In fact, after the grunt SFs did the incredible and routed the Taliban
with lots of grunt help from the Northern Alliance, many of these bearded, long-haired SF heroes were told to get shaves and
a haircut---dut-dut; and, IF they needed to go back into Injun territory, they were ordered by REMF HQ Pukes to wear wigs and fake beards---and
not very good ones at that.

I give this book 3 stars. 2 for accomplishment and 4 for honesty,
because there are a few details left out---deliberately. And, some
should have been left out so as not to compromise native friendlies
or divulge ´Sources and Methods.´

Thanks, Gen. Boykin for your breathtaking honesty, maybe you started
to question the DC REMFs at Waco. An epiphany?

Formerly assigned to 401st SOD USASA and to be attached to 8th SF,
Ft. Gulick, Panama. (1967-69) I´d have accepted the invite; but,
SF wanted me to jump out of perfectly good aircraft and wouldn´t
listen to my concerns about my dying in a stupid LALO jump
during a night jungle mission. Loved to have done HALO with
my DLIWC buds from 40,000+ feet. Oh well.

Obviously, they never saw BA Baracus of the TV show the A-Team.
Oops! That was years in the future.



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6) Hardcover Book Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom by FaithWords. In 1978, Jerry Boykin joined what would become the world´s premier Special Operations unit, Delta Force. The only promise: "A medal and a body bag." What followed was a .50 caliber round in the chest and a life spent with America´s elite forces bringing down warlords and war criminals, despots, and dictators. In Colombia, his task force hunted the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. In Panama, he helped capture the brutal dictator Manuel Noriega, liberating a nation. From Vietnam to Iran to Mogadishu, Lt. General Jerry Boykin´s life reads like an action-adventure novel. Boykin´s powerful story will keep you riveted as he reveals how his military duty worked in tandem with his faith to bring him through the bloody storms of foreign battle-and through the political firestorm that ambushed him in his own country.


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