Structure

“No Easy Day” by Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer is separated into 19 chapters which cover the Mark Owen’s odyssey through the Navy’s elite SEAL (“Sea Air Land” special operations) unit that culminated in his participation as a member of SEAL Team Six which conducted the raid on Osama bin Laden and killed the terrorist. Owen takes the reader through the tough selection process known as Green Team training when he was a candidate for the SEALs’ most prestigious assignment - that of being a member of the exclusive SEAL Team Six. The story is told in a mainly chronological order from the rigors of the his training, examples of the perilous missions that he was deployed on and finally to what he considered an honor and the pinnacle of his military career – the killing of bin Laden.

Owen includes some flashbacks to his hunting and...