lone survivor one of the chinooks was hovering to offload special forces. that s when a rocket propelled grenade was fired night. all special operation forces on board, eight s.e.a.l.s and four army night stalkers were killed. it hit hard. we lost all souls onboard. marcus latrell likely wouldn t have made it if it weren t for mohammed gulab. he ended up in his village for four days, being moved between different houses and even a cave to prevent him from being captured. he was finally rescued by u.s. forces who had been scouring the mountains. they d been looking for you. right. for as long as i d been missing. they were beat to hell. what was that feeling when you saw the first american in the village? well, ways out of it pretty hard. i mean, my head was down. they were carrying me. i just remember lifting my head up barely because he was screaming my name. marcus, is that you? i was like yeah, right here, bro. marcus latrell, the lone survivor, was finally going hom
matt was badly wounded but latrell, the team medic, said there was nothing he could do. an rpg hit behind him and blew him on top of me. i just remember how loud it was and how wide it went. when i pushed him off of me it blew me one way blew him another. i never saw him again for the rest of my life. marcus latrell says he isn t sure how many hours they d been fighting. but as darkness fell he was all alone. how did you get through that night? it was rough. that was the longest night of my life. because the sun got down, it was dark, it was pitch black. you know, i d fall and knock myself out. i d come to, i d keep crawling. that s what i kept doing. the next day he was desperate, still pursued by enemy fighters he d been shot twice in his legs. he had three cracked vertebrae and was bleeding profusely. but he says his biggest concern was finding water to drink. people wouldn t consider thirst as being a big deal.
he was like okay okay okay. i lowered my weapon. and i pulled a grenade. and pulled the pin. i was saying, i ll kill all of us. you were prepared to blow yourself up along with everybody else? yes. i wasn t going to get taken. why do you think you didn t kill him? i can t tell you. i don t know why. luckily for latrell, mohammed gulab, who lived in a nearby village, was not a member of the taliban. he gave me water and rolled me over. he had seen where i d been shot. ways bleeding real bad. three other guys plus him picked me up and started carrying me down to the village. s.e.a.l. commanders didn t know what had happened to marcus latrell and his three teammates. petty officer danny dietz was dead, petty officer matt axelton had been gravely wounded and was separated from latrell. lieutenant mike murphy had been killed after making a satellite phone call for help. retired vice admiral joe mcguire told us how much he add myers murphy for making that call. they were in a l
i remember that as well. a much more moving day for me and one that s more defining is the 28th of june, 2005, when that helicopter was shot down and three of my men were killed on the ground. 19 men lost their lives. vice admiral joe mcguire was head of s.e.a.l. training at time. you would have to go back to world war ii to have had one day where we experienced that many casualties at one time. mcguire says the entire s.e.a.l. community was devastated. it s a community marcus latrell and his twin brother decided they wanted to be part of when they were still teen agers. he had it in his head this is what we re going to do. it s going to be great, man. we can jump out of airplanes, shoot guns and blow stuff up. we get to scuba dive and there s an 80% chance we re going to die. i was like sign me up, man. marcus latrell became an s.e.a.l. at the age of 25 and says receiving the special force insignia was the proudest accomplishment of his life. do you remember when you got t
with the names of all of his brothers that had died in that operation. and marcus would sit in that house in that moment, in that experience, in that gun fight. he was almost living inside of it when i first met him. marcus latrell has suffered both emotionally and physically, but his family and friends say he s getting better. he has a service dog, mr. rigby, who never leaves his side. he s also gone the married. he and his wife melanie have two children. latrell has also had time to piece together what happened to him when he was badly wounded on the mountain in afghanistan, including details of gulab s role in saving his life. now, eight years later, the two men have become close friends, and gulab occasionally flies from afghanistan to latrell s family s ranch in texas to visit. i love you. [ speaking foreign language ] he says i love you, too. that s why i m here. i came for you, he says, my brother.