SEMPER FI!!
credit given to them)
Surrounded and severely outnumbered in combat, you can
either give up or fight to the death. Petty Officer Luttrell and
three other SEALs faced that decision in the hills of Afghanistan
on June 28, 2005. A SEAL never gives up.
The team, which included Lt. Michael Murphy and Petty Officers
Matt Axelson and Danny Dietz, had been sent on a covert
mission to find and kill a Taliban leader. As the SEALs scoured
the area, they encountered three civilians who Luttrell believes
alerted Taliban fighters. About an hour later, approximately 80-
100 Taliban fighters appeared and began a ferocious assault. As
the small team fought back, a Chinook helicopter arrived in
support – but was shot down by the enemy, killing all 16 men on
board.
The SEALs realized that their odds of survival were slim – but
their training and sense of honor told them to take out as many
enemies as they could. By the end of a two-hour gunfight that
careened through the hills and over cliffs, Murphy, Axelson, and
Dietz had fallen. An estimated 35 Taliban were also dead. Luttrell
managed to escape the carnage – badly injured – and slowly
crawl away down the side of a cliff.
for Luttrell was grim. Rescue helicopters were sent in, but he was too weak and injured to make contact. Traveling
seven miles on foot, he eventually reached a village where he was put under “lokhay warkawal,” Afghan for the
protection of the villagers, who fed him and cleaned his wounds. In short order, one of the villagers made his way to
a Marine outpost with a note from Luttrell, and U.S. forces launched a massive rescue operation that pulled him from
enemy territory. To this day, Luttrell remains indebted to the villagers who risked their lives in his defense. As he told
The Washington Post, “In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I’d even
call it godliness.”
Luttrell was the “Lone Survivor” of the events of June 28, 2005. He was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions.
This story touched my heart. The senseless and the cruelty of it
in a world that doesn't make sense most of the time. Hasn't
Marcus Luttrell suffered and been to hell and back enough?
Mr. Luttrell you ARE a hero to many people
and many owe their lives to you. We ALL owe our freedom to
Marcus and many, many like him. God Bless all of our troops.
- Semper Fi
attack.
The Houston Chronicle reported that at least five area dog killings have happened in the Huntsville area in recent
months.
The Texas Rangers said those killings could be linked to this case.
Marcus Luttrell, a former Navy SEAL from Texas who won the Navy Cross for heroism after a firefight in Afghanistan
that left the other members of his team dead chased three men through three counties after finding his yellow Lab
shot outside his home in Huntsville on April 1.
The dog, named Dasy, was a therapy dog and was helping Luttrell recover from wounds he suffered in the firefight in
which three other Seals died.
Dasy is an acronym for the team members who died.
"Marcus is having a hard time with it. The dog was a good friend of his. He has seen a lot, been through a lot over
the years and I feel like the dog played a very big role in his life," Walker County Sheriff Clint McRae said.
Luttrell chased the two men suspected of killing Dasy through three counties before police in Onalaska finally
stopped them.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Luttrell was armed during the chase, and at one point raised his pistol, but as
the suspects pulled away he did not fire.
Michael Edmonds, Jr. and Alfonzo Hernandez, 24, were arrested and charged with animal cruelty.
The Texas Rangers and the Walker County Sheriff's Department are investigating.
Luttrell was awarded the Navy Cross for combat heroism in 2006.
He and three other SEALS were sent to find and kill a Taliban leader in June 2005.
As they scoured the area, they encountered some civilians who evidently later alerted Taliban fighters to the
presence of the four Americans because about an hour after the encounter, 80 to 100 insurgents attacked.
Luttrell’s three teammates died in the attack, in which an estimated 35 Taliban were also killed.
Luttrell, though badly wounded, was able to crawl away and down the side of a cliff to escape the carnage.
“Dehydrated, with a bullet wound to one leg, shrapnel embedded in both legs, three vertebrae cracked; the situation
for Luttrell was grim,” a Department of Defense account says.
He was too weak to make contact with rescue helicopters sent to search for the team, and ended up traveling seven
miles on foot to reach a village where the residents fed him and cleaned his wounds.
One of the villagers went to a Marine outpost with a note Luttrell had written and a massive rescue operation was
launched.
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