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Lone Survivor

At the beginning of the book, Marcus Luttrell describes his childhood and his training to prepare for the Navy SEALs with Billy Shelton. After joining the U.S. Navy and completing SEAL training, Luttrell describes his posting in Afghanistan, in the Hindu Kush mountains of the Kunar province. With him are the rest of SEAL Team 10, except Shane E. Patton, for whom Danny Dietz was substituted. Their mission, Operation Red Wings, was to stake outside a village and capture or kill a leading Taliban member thought to be allied with Osama bin Laden. One night in June 2005, while hiding out, the team encountered three Afghanistan shepherds, including a boy. The team debated sparing or killing the ...

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Eight members of the SEALs and eight Army special operations soldiers who came by helicopter to rescue the original four were shot down, and all aboard were killed. Mr. Luttrell was then rescued by a group of Afghan Pashtun villagers who harbored him in their homes for several days, protecting him from the Taliban and ultimately helping him to safety."[2] The theme of hospitality as understood by the Pashtun culture

The book Lone Survivor is about Marcus Luttrell and his journey as a US Navy SEAL. He went through the impossible training of becoming a deadly warrior. One of his deployments were in the Hindu Kush mountains in the Kunar Province. He and his team were sent to go one a mission called “Operation Red Wing.” This operation was a stake out operation where the team had to go and capture or kill a taliban leader known to be associated with Osama Bin Laden. The mission went to hell and they were faced with an entire large force of Taliban warriors as they were trying ...

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Added: 1/28/2014 07:29:02 PM
Submitted By: that_thug_izzy_g
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 601
Pages: 3

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