Dick Couch is an U.S. American author and former Navy SEAL. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967. He graduated from BUD/S Class 45 in 1969, and was the class Honorman. He was also the first in his class at the Navy Underwater Swimmers School and the Army Free Fall (HALO) School. As Whiskey Platoon Commander with SEAL Team One in Vietnam,[1] he led one of the only successful prisoners of war rescue operations of that conflict. He and his wife, Julia, live in Idaho.