On June 28, 2005, Luttrell and SEAL Team 10 were assigned to a mission to kill or capture Ahmad Shah (nom de guerre Mohammad Ismail), a high-ranking Taliban leader responsible for killings in eastern Afghanistan and the Hindu-Kush mountains. Marcus graduated 18 Delta in 2001, making him a team Medic. He graduated with Class 228 after suffering a fractured femur early in his training. He began Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training with Class 226 in Coronado, California. Luttrell joined the United States Navy in March 1999. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. As kids they loved to hunt and fish and wrestle alligators! Martial arts training has been an important role in Marcus’ life from the time he was a child. They began training for the SEALs at age 14 with former United States Army soldier, Billy Shelton, who lived nearby. Throughout, he reflects on what it really means to take on a higher calling, about the men he's seen lose their lives for their country, and the legacy of those who came and bled before.Ī thrilling war story, Service is also a profoundly moving tribute to the warrior brotherhood, to the belief that nobody goes it alone, and no one will be left behind.īorn and raised in Texas, Luttrell and his twin brother, Morgan, attended Sam Houston State University. We also return to Afghanistan and Operation Redwing, where Luttrell offers powerful new details about his miraculous rescue. There, in six months of high-intensity urban combat, he would be part of what has been called the greatest victory in the history of U.S.
In Service, we follow Marcus Luttrell to Iraq, where he returns to the battlefield as a member of SEAL Team 5 to help take on the most dangerous city in the world: Ramadi, the capital of war-torn Al Anbar Province. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything-including themselves-for the sake of family, nation, and freedom. So many had given their lives to save him-and he would have readily done the same for them. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken.
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