Lone Survivor Complete

I have recently completed Lone Survivor, the book I wrote about in my first post. After the author described the brutal training which all Navy SEALs must undergo. He got into his own experience in Operation Redwing. The author, Marcus Luttrell was sent in with three of his fellow SEALs. These other three were Michael Murphy, Matt "Axe" Axelson, and Danny Dietz. The purpose of their mission was to take down a high ranking Taliban official. The dilema was that their position on the mountain provided little cover, which made the mission riskier than usual. Thankfully SEALs are the highest trained operatives in the world, so they can handle it. The men sat and waited for 16 hours not able to move in inch for fear of being spotted by a watchful sentry. They were spread out over about a 75 yard area, 2 with sniper rifles and two with assault rifles. Then a group of Afghan goatherds accidentally scared the crap out of Marcus who was as unaware of their presence as he was of theirs. He popped up from his concealed spot and pointed his rifle at the goatherds. The rest of the squad came to see what was up. They voted against killing the unarm men, this turned out to be a decision Marcus would regret. Two hours later a force of 200 Taliban come up to hunt the 4 SEALs. They are trapped, and the whole way out is with their weapons. Despite their numbers disadvantage the men hold out for two hours. They were forced to leap of steep cliffs several times in a row, each breaking several bones, but SEALs are the toughest men in the world and will fight to the end. Michael Murphy was shot a total of five times, but through it all he ran out into the middle of the fray to make a cell phone call, as it was the only area where he could get service. He phoned a nearby base and said "My guys are getting killed out here." He was shot and dropped the phone but he picked it up again and said "Thank you sir." He was shot in the head again, yet he continued to fight until another gunshot killed him. Matt Axelson was shot a total of seven times and lost his vison as well as breaking both legs, but he just propped himself up and continued to blast away until he was blown up by an enemy RPG. Danny Dietz was shot five times also losing his eyesight in his left eye, his right thumb was also shot clean off, he died bravely like Murphy and Axe. Marcus miraculously was only shot twice, and injured his leg terribly. When the firefight was done Marcus needed to stay alive as he was the only remaining SEAL. He hid and continued killing many Taliban, the squad of SEALs had managed to kill 180 of the original 200 Taliban. This goes to show how good these guys are. Marcus survived and was found by friendly Pashtun villagers who granted him "lokhay" meaning their village would fight to the death to protect him. After 6 days he was picked up by a U.S. chopper. He returned to the U.S. the next week. It was later discovered that Matt Axelson had not died from the RPG, this was proved as he had 3 clips of pistol ammo when Marcus last saw him, and when the body was found he had none and his rifle was bent and bloodied as he ad beat 3 more Taliban to death with it. Matt Axelson continued to fight until being shot three more times making a total of ten shots to take down one man. This was one of the greatest books I have ever read.