I recommend this book (a B&N link because I'm minimizing the business I do with Amazon as much as possible. I suspect it's available there, too), by medically retired Navy SEAL Justin Sheffield.
It's a raw description of his evolution from trouble-making teenager through highly successful SEAL through heavily emotionally and physically (primarily brain) damaged SEAL through his eventual, in the main, recovery.
There was some subtext that greatly interested me, too: the heavy dependence on technology of the SEALs and of our military generally, both in the run-up to a fight and during the fight itself.
I have to wonder--and worry--about how effective our troops would be in a war when ASAT EMPs have been employed, and when battlefield EMPs have been employed both over the approach/engagement and over Division and Army headquarters. How well can our men and women function in a manual environment? How well can units of any size coordinate with each other without their electronic com?
And mind you: it doesn't take nuclear weapons to generate an EMP. Nor are any of our enemies, state actors or network entities, nearly as dependent on technology as we are.
Eric Hines
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