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It's a strictly American brotherhood, mostly forged in blood. But that would have taken us over the dubious southern uplands of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we do not do that. I mean, gosh, dont you want to die doing something you love to do, rather than from some horrendous disease, or in a car accident?, Luttrell has said publicly that he imagines the families of the fallen resent him for being the only one to make it out alive, and he struggles with survivors guilt. In the book, members of the Taliban enter Luttrells room and begin beating him. There were many times when we really were chasing shadows out there in that burning hot, sandy wilderness. When he came to, he saw Mohammad Gulab Khan standing on the bank offering his help. I was one of 146,000 American and coalition troops in there, under the command of General Tommy Franks. And where was he conducting his program? The execution of my duties will be swift and violent when required, yet guided by the very principles I serve to defend. They're not proud. And that's probably why we never lost one Navy SEAL in all my long months in Iraq. He was the same age as me when he died. well . The four Navy SEALs on the ground including Axelson went missing after a furious firefight, during which they were encircled by heavily armed Taliban. He used them in Halabja, right? As a fighter and a warrior, those are usually the stories you dont want out., READ NEXT: Joe Rogan Just Sold His LA Home for This Much, Joe Rogan Reveals Reason for Sudden Ending: The Correct Decision, Please review our privacy policy here: https://heavy.com/privacy-policy/, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. We never give these guys one inch of latitude. re until we are ?red upon or have positively identi?ed our enemy and have proof of his intentions. Solomon Suh, who moved in with his daughters family after his sons death, used to drive down from Benicia on Sundays and spend the day with the bronze likeness of his son, who was 28 when he died, occasionally reading to him from the Bible. We were coming after the guys who did it. We continued our operations, looking for the key insurgents, forcing or bribing the information out of them. The whole aircraft shook and rumbled as we charged down the runway, taking off to the southwest, directly into the desert wind which gusted out of the mainland Arabian peninsula. . He claimed that it wasnt goat herders who gave the SEALs away it was the sound of their choppers which could be heard all over the mountain. A total of 11 SEALs died that day in the War against Terror, in the biggest single loss of life for Naval Special Warfare forces since World War II. That's what we believe. The most important reason why the Taliban didnt attack? Well, we found those trucks, hidden in the desert, parked together. Their mission was called Operation Red Wings also known as the Battle of Abbas Ghar. Big, fast, highly trained guys, armed to the teeth, expert in unarmed combat, so stealthy no one ever hears us coming. Since childhood, he dreamed of becoming a SEAL, and at the age . It was about me getting my a** whipped. After the battle, according to the book, Luttrell is found by a local man named Sarawa, who also tends to his wounds: In the film, a local man named Gulab rescues him: According to Luttrells 60 Minutes interview, Thats when an Afghan man appeared. He had acquired another one that he told me would become "the ultimate customized Bug, dude. Those mountains up in the northeast, the western end of the mighty range of the Hindu Kush, were the very same mountains where the Taliban had sheltered the lunatics of al Qaeda, shielded the crazed followers of Osama bin Laden while they plotted the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11.