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Marcus Luttrell Speaks: What Lone Survivor Got Right — and What Hollywood Left Out
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"Marcus Luttrell Speaks: What Lone Survivor Got Right — and What Hollywood Left Out"

Marcus Luttrell's story is one of the most famous in modern American military history. In 2005, during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan, his four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance team was ambushed by Taliban fighters after their position was compromised.


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Three of his teammates — Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz, and Matthew Axelson — were killed in the firefight. Luttrell, severely wounded, survived by crawling miles through mountain terrain before being sheltered by an Afghan villager under the ancient Pashtun code of hospitality known as

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