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On June 28, 2005, a covert Navy SEAL mission in Afghanistan went terribly wrong and resulted in the loss of 19 American troops. Thanks to his valiant comrades, the remarkable kindness of strangers and his own courage,only one SEAL, Marcus Luttrell,made it out of the ferocious firefight alive

Laden with weapons and gear, Petty Officer
Marcus Luttrell grasped the rope dangling
from the rear of the Chinook transport
helicopter and descended into the moonless
night. Twenty feet down, his boots touched
ground in the remote mountains of
northeastern Afghanistan near the
Pakistani border. As the roar of the
helicopter faded to silence, Luttrell and
three other Navy SEALs—Lieutenant Michael
Murphy and Petty Officers Danny Dietz and
Matt Axelson—found themselves alone in
the pitch darkness of a desolate warzone.

The elite four-man team was searching for
Ahmad Shah, a militia leader aligned with
the Taliban, as part of a mission dubbed
Operation Red Wings. Soaked by a cold rain,
the quartet hiked for hours through the
darkness as they struggled to keep their
footings on the steep mountain ridges.
After the sun dawned on June 28, 2005,
nearly four years into the war in
Afghanistan, the mud-caked SEALs
burrowed themselves behind rocks, logs and
tree stumps on an outcrop overlooking
Shah’s suspected location. The 29-year-old
Luttrell, a sniper and team medic,
concealed himself under a felled tree when
he suddenly heard soft footsteps. Looking
up, he saw a turbaned man carrying an
axe.

The SEALs had been discovered. Not by
enemy forces, however, but a local goat
herder. Within moments, nearly 100 goats
with bells around their necks came jingling
over the mountainside with another herder
and a teenage boy.
The surprise presented the SEALs with
several options—none of them good. Killing
unarmed noncombatants would violate
acceptable rules of engagement and also
likely result in a court-martial. If the
SEALs tied up the three and left them
behind, they still faced the problem of
what to do with the bleating herd without
raising suspicions. Dietz, who was in charge
of communications, tried to radio
headquarters for instructions but could not
connect.

Left to make their own decision, the unit
released the unarmed men, knowing it was
very possible that the herders would inform
the Taliban forces. It was a decision
Luttrell “knew could sign our death
warrant.” With their mission compromised, the SEALs
tried to move to a defensive position, but
barely an hour later, dozens of Shah’s
forces emerged over a ridgeline. An
avalanche of AK-47 fire, rocket-propelled
grenades and mortars cascaded down the
mountain. The terrain proved just as vicious
as the enemy. As the Taliban fighters
advanced, the SEALs scrambled, fell and
jumped hundreds of feet down the
mountain. One fall shattered three of
Luttrell’s vertebrae.

Dietz was shot multiple times during the
firefight, and although his right thumb had
been blown off in the battle, he continued
to shoot at the enemy to protect his unit.
As Luttrell hooked his arms underneath the
shoulders of his badly wounded comrade to
drag him down the slope, a bullet hit Dietz
in the back of his head. He died in
Luttrell’s arms.
The badly wounded Murphy knew their best
chance at survival was to call in
reinforcements. Without a workable radio
connection, the team leader cast his
personal safety aside and moved to a
completely exposed position, the only
location where he could get a signal on his
satellite phone. As Murphy phoned for
backup, a bullet ripped through his back.
The lieutenant managed to complete his call
and even keep up the fight, but he could
not survive. Luttrell holed up with Axelson,
who had sustained a terrible head wound,
when a rocket-propelled grenade blasted
the two apart. Luttrell never saw Axelson
again.

Luttrell miraculously survived the blast and
managed to elude capture by the time
reinforcements arrived. Alerted by
Murphy’s call, two Chinook helicopters
carrying Special Operations Forces rushed to
the area of the firefight, but as one of the
aircraft hovered to discharge its troops, a
rocket-propelled grenade shot it out of the
sky. The eight SEALs and eight Army Night
Stalkers aboard all died.
By the time the sun set on the disastrous
day, 19 Americans were dead. Luttrell was
presumed to have been a 20th victim, but
in spite of bullet wounds, a broken back
and rocks and shrapnel protruding from his
legs, the SEAL survived. Unaware of the
tragedy that befell the rescue operation,
Luttrell crawled seven miles through the
mountains. In spite of his wounds, he killed
chasing Taliban with his rifle and grenades
as he continued to evade capture.

As the sun blazed down, the thirsty Luttrell
licked the sweat off his arms until he
found a waterfall. As he sipped its cool
waters, he suddenly found himself
surrounded once again by a band of local
men. These men, however, proved to be
more friend than foe. One of the men,
Mohammad Gulab, assured Luttrell they
were not Taliban, and he and three others
carried the wounded warrior back to their
village of Sabray. Bound by a tribal code of
honor known as Pashtunwali, Gulab gave
Luttrell food, water and shelter. Although
the Taliban encircled the village and
threatened his family and neighbors if he
didn’t turn over the American, Gulab
refused. For four days, Luttrell was
shuttled among houses and even into a
cave to prevent his capture.

Finally, Gulab’s father traveled to a
Marine outpost with a note from Luttrell.
The military launched a large combat
search-and-rescue operation with
warplanes and ground forces that attacked
the Taliban fighters and brought home their
missing man. As Gulab helped the limping
SEAL to a waiting helicopter, an Air Force
pararescueman held out his outstretched
arm to Luttrell and said, “Welcome home,
brother.”
for his actions, Luttrell received the Navy
Cross in a 2006 White House ceremony, and
Axelson and Dietz received the same honor
posthumously. Murphy posthumously
received his country’s highest military
honor, the Medal of Honor. Luttrell may
have been the firefight’s lone survivor, but
he hardly emerged unscathed. He struggled
with survivor’s guilt, post-traumatic stress
disorder and physical after-effects in the
ensuing years. “I died on that mountain,
too,” he said of his torment in a 2007
interview with NBC. “I left a part of myself
up there.”

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