Marcus Luttrell was born in Houston Texas on November 7, 1975. Marcus Luttrell started training to become a U.S. Navy SEAL at age 14. Marcus trained with a neighbor who was a U.S. Army soldier and Marcus also trained with his brother. Marcus was inspired by them to join the U.S. Navy after high school Marcus attended Sam Houston University. Marcus enlisted in the United States Navy on March 1999 after he graduated he transferred to Basic Underwater Demolition/SEALs. During Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEALs he fractured his femur on the obstacle course. He then had to graduate with a different class. He graduated Basic Underwater Demolition/SEALs on April 21, 2000. After completing Basic Underwater Demolition/SEALs he attended Army jump school and SEAL qualification training. He was then sent to Fort Bragg North Carolina for Special Operations Combat Medic course or SOCM for an additional six months of advanced training. He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2005 with SEAL team 10. Then late one night on June 27, 2005 Operation Red Wings began. The mission was supposed to be a milk run they had to locate and confirm that a high value was in a village that they had gotten Intel on that there was supposed to be a high value target there. Their team was discovered by local goat herders and they had to decide whether they should let them go or kill them. They decided to let them go. Marcus Luttrell had told his fellow seals after they let the goat herders go that they would fight to the very last man and to the very last bullet they then dug themselves in preparing for them to ambush them. Then they were ambushed by intense PK machine guns, AK-47s, RPG-7s, and 82mm mortars. The SEALs made a number of attempts to contact their Combat Opera...
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...t two scenes in the film and is present in other scenes as well. Marcus and his team showed the never quit spirit and Marcus still shows that never quit spirit of a United States Navy SEAL. This is Marcus Luttrell born and raised in Texas he is a United States Navy SEAL.
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