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ax walked off behind the rocky was firing on. i almost shot him. he sat down indian 1250i8 against my left hip and leaned against my right leg. he goes, i m sorry, bro, i can t help you. i m blind. they shot me in the face. latrell says the s.e.a.l.s were surrounded. they hadn t gone through on the radio so he says lieutenant mike murphy decided to move to a completely exposed position so he could get a signal on his satellite phone and call for backup. mikey was out, had pushed out onto this boulder out in the middle of the draw. wide open, no cover, no nothing. he was on a satellite phone. latrell saw his lieutenant make the call, a call mike murphy knew would likely cost him his life. took two round to the chest because he spun like a top. it dropped him. i tried to make my way up to him. he was my best friend. i had already lost danny and i knew that ax was dying. i didn t want to lose him. ....
They say every man has his breaking point. i never thought i d find mine. the only way you break a navy s.e.a.l. you have to kill us. but i broke right there. i quit right there. still, marcus latrell says he managed to pick up his weapon and found matt the only s.e.a.l. left alive. he was below me. he had crawled underneath this rock overhang. i crawled in there i was like we re going to die, man. we re going to die right now. you said that to ax? mm-hmm. and i made my peace with god a long time ago about dying. but most of the time we don t know when we re going to die. they just shut our light off. and it s a weird feeling when you know the reaper s at the door. 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. ....
latrell says it was only about an hour after they freed the goat herders that the first enemy fighters appeared. they were on a ridge on this mountainside above where the s.e.a.l.s had dug in. we had to break out our shovels and use our boots and actually build these little shelves to stand in when we were done we d lean back against the mountain like this. first guy i saw had an rpg over each shoulder and ak-47. then there was about 30 or 40 guys in line with him. had they seen you? not yet. my rifle was right here. i traded it and rolled my head up like this and i shot him in the head. the game was on right then. according to littrell, ahmed shaw s forces moved in to outflank the seals. we obtained this video recorded by enemy forces from an american writer and photographer with military sources. the date stamp and other scenes that are too gruesome to show you indicate it was recorded the day of the fighting. this is how the fire fight is portrayed in a new film called ....
Afghanistan. these are just unremarkable men who do absolutely remarkable things. they re warriors. it s a warrior class, it s a warrior spirit. an they are extremely talented individuals. and this story that s come to light because marcus survived, and marcus feels like he survived in order to tell story. on june 28, 2005, petty officer marcus latrell, a sniper and team medic, wasn t sure he was going to survive. he was badly wounded and didn t know anyone was trying to rescue him. my back was broke. i had frag laying everywhere. i crawled into this rock embankment. started taking dirt putting in all my wounds so i wouldn t bleed to death. you had no medical gear. huh. did you have a map? it was all gone. did you have a compass? gone. i didn t have pants on. they were completely ripped off me. latrell had been fighting for hours. his three s.e.a.l. brothers were all dead or near death. ....
Would you say would sum up the greatest mistake in military operations, to me it s just simple two words. too late. as portrayed in the new movie lone survivor one of the chinooks was hovering to offload special forces. that s when a rocket propelled grenade was fired into it. all special operation forces on board, eight s.e.a.l.s and four army night stalkers were killed. it hit hard. and, you know, we lost all souls on board. 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. so they were beat to hell. what was that feeling when you saw the first american in the village? well, i was out of it pretty hard. ....