Marcus luttrell age
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Laden with weapons and gear, Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell grasped the rope dangling from the rear of the Chinook transport helicopter and descended into the moonless night. Twenty feet down, his boots touched ground in the remote mountains of northeastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border. As the roar of the helicopter faded to silence, Luttrell and three other Navy SEALs—Lieutenant Michael Murphy and Petty Officers Danny Dietz and Matt Axelson—found themselves alone in the pitch darkness of a desolate warzone.
The elite four-man team was searching for Ahmad Shah, a militia leader aligned with the Taliban, as part of a mission dubbed Operation Red Wings. Soaked by a cold rain, the quartet hiked for hours through the darkness as they struggled to keep their footings on the steep mountain ridges. After the sun dawned on June 28, 2005, nearly four years into the war in Afghanistan, the mud-caked SEALs burrowed themselves behind rocks, logs and tree stumps on an outcrop overlooking Shah’s suspected location. The 29-year-old Luttrell, a sniper and team medic, concealed himself un
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Marcus Luttrell
Petty Officer First Class Marcus Luttrell was born in Huntsville, Texas in 1975.
A graduate of BUD/S Class 228, he was the only survivor of the fateful events of June 28, 2005 in Afghanistan. Luttrell and three teammates from SEAL Team TEN were assigned to a reconnaissance mission, operation RED WING, in the Hindu-Kush mountain region of Afghanistan. Their objective was to gather intelligence on Taliban movement in the area. Luttrell’s team was eventually discovered and outnumbered by over 200 Taliban fighters. Petty Officer Luttrell was the only to survive enemy contact. In the rescue mission that ensued, 16 Special Forces personnel, including 8 SEALs, died when their helicopter was shot down by Taliban fighters. It was the largest single-day loss of life in the SEALs’ history.
In 2006, Petty Officer Luttrell was awarded the Navy Cross for combat heroism.
His full story is documented in his heroic account of the operation, entitled: Lone Survivor.
Marcus’s twin brother, Morgan Luttrell, is also a SEAL, still on active duty.
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Marcus Luttrell was born on November 7, 1975, in Houston, Texas. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on September 15, 1998, and attended basic training at NTC Great Lakes, Illinois, from March 8 to May 17, 1999. Luttrell next completed Corpsman A School in November 1999, and then Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL Training in April 2000. Further training followed with his completion of Airborne School in June 2000, Special Operations Combat Medic Training in April 2001, SEAL Qualification Training in August 2001, and Naval Special Warfare Advanced Communications Training in December 2001. Petty Officer Luttrell served with SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team One at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from December 2001 until he deployed with SEAL Team 10 to Afghanistan in March 2005, having previously deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in April 2003. He was badly injured in a firefight during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005, and was missing in action for several days until being found by American forces on July 3, 2005. During this time a local Afghani tribesman had given
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