Lone Survivor_ The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 ( PDFDrive )

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Thankfully, not all Afghan villagers are hostile to us. Right here a coupleof U.S. Special Forces question the locals, and a lot of them are happy tohelp. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Tim Turner
A small section of the crowd that held the vigil at our ranch. Atlunchtime there were sometimes three hundred meals served. No oneever really knew where the food came from; it just kept arriving. “Godknows, it was just like the loaves and fishes,” according to my mom.Courtesy of Holly Luttrell
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Copyright © 2007 by Marcus Luttrel
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This book is dedicated to the memor
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“Help me, Marcus! Please help me!
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fighting force where valor is a com
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King Fahd Causeway.The six of us, d
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obliged to get out there and find.
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Cordell and Donna, and to his broth
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revs on the TAC. Don’t mess with
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petty officer second class. Like Sh
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photographing hot spots and danger
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But usually he came up with somethi
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cannot see. Someone described us as
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and plug into some quality happines
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the front line. Each of the six of
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blood.At which point, urged on by a
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They never tell us, or anyone else,
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My mom’s a seventh-generation Tex
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a way, I’m glad I lived through i
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and hard work. And he didn’t let
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their families. But they don’t se
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I’m not getting one dime from any
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Kush mountains. The most southerly
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opposition to their hard-line polic
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Jalalabad, Kandahar, and Herat. The
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Somehow these hickory-tough tribesm
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air brake on violence. According to
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in the grim island fortress of Chat
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us. There were always guys showing
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learned how to extinguish fires, es
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seem too much to ask in return, sin
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understand and will comply. We say
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3. A minimum of 50 sit-ups in 2 min
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while I was prostrate on the floor
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everything. Why not just tell it li
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rowing, lifting, swimming, fighting
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our tests was called slide for life
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room inspection. The guy couldn’t
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The water was only a fraction above
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4Welcome to Hell, GentlemenBattlefi
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times, because if we did not put ou
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ordered from one exercise to anothe
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There were about eighteen guys outs
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signifying resignation, and we hadn
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listened carefully while Chief Niel
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boats out through the waves, dumpin
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determined young men who would rath
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opened fire, spraying the room with
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whistles kept blowing, one blast, t
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inserted that poison into my mind.
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below the thirty-two-minute standar
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supple for the day ahead.The new sh
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someone else.Joe Burns nodded curtl
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Somehow you find yourself able to b
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1. Consider all weapons to be loade
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Florida. I was there on 9/11, and l
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might expect you to be. My only sol
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6’Bye, Dudes, Give ’Em HellThe
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mind. If a troop of wild tribesmen
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intel on him, from both satellites
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BRUTAL US TROOPS GUN DOWNPEACE-LOVI
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sensationally good news for our ene
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Sometimes we’d run across a group
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takes, was their obvious belief. In
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operation — get above the target,
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but underneath he could be very fun
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watch. You simply cannot do effecti
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have a good feeling about this. And
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It was really slow going, clamberin
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7An Avalanche of GunfireDown the mo
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position where we could rest on thi
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That type of thing. Nothing else. N
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Omar Bradley? MacArthur? Would they
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about that...Marcus, I’ll go with
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we would be too well hidden for the
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hidden. I kept perfectly still, tha
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water, comms, phone. I’d even los
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uncompromising, steady, hard-eyed,
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was still fierce on all sides, but
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bullets; the swirling dust cloud en
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8The Final Battle forMurphy’s Rid
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When that grenade blew me over the
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But then Axe reached for his rifle
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enemies. If knocked down, I will ge
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they shot him, I thought mortally,
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not together, not on this earth. Ax
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I had only one Teammate. And He mov
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to the quick reaction force (QRF) i
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found gun barrels snapped in half a
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I decided this was not a risk I was
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But my back hurt like hell. I never
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I’d travel a whole lot farther on
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They are born trackers, able to pic
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cross with honor.”I sang those wo
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dwell in the house of the Lord for
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announcement from the SEAL HQ in Ha
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positions. I could see one guy, the
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fighting as one in a team of four o
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You’re probably not going to beli
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was trying to communicate.“Americ
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Jesus Christ! I mean, Muhammad! Or
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As they approached me, I took out m
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else to do me harm. Nor would they
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them it was against my religion! I
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surrounded by more Taliban, all of
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somehow come back for me.Bang! Sudd
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killing mode, going for the leaders
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Eternal Father, strong to save,Whos
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was me. Like a lot of other folk ha
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three hours while we discussed, as
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prove too strong even for the Talib
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their language. Those kids were gre
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11Reports of My DeathGreatly Exagge
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were adults and kids, all mixed up,
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I sent them right out there again,
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It seemed apparent that my presence
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illuminated the sky beyond our imme
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Jeff Bender, Admiral Maguire’s pu
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here they had the last one.The more
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cornered.But an impending attack re
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alienating the people and, in parti
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Page 272 and 273: by Patrick RobinsonIn the fall of 2
Page 274 and 275: to change that.— Marcus Luttrell
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Page 278 and 279: Taking the strain: This is a BUD/S
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Page 300: About the AuthorsPetty Officer Marc
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