@Bee Liever Explain yourself.

@@fletchermoore5428 16:10

@@SwiftestScout Nah you misunderstand. Look at my @ i wasn't responding to OP, I was responding to someone who has now deleted their comment. Probably because they couldn't explain themselves haha.

A true hero indeed

I think I will meet him and shake his hand I live in Texas and I am also a Vet would love to meet the man and have a Beer with him!

Gilbert Garza, shake his hand and offer a him a beer for all of us. Truly an extraordinary hero. Thank all men and women for their service and sacrifice!

@Lynette Scribner You are very welcome and it's a pleasure and just a sense of duty. 😉

@Please Listen you a bum

TheKaffeeKlatsch I've already walked in those shoes, because I've already served. What you are too blind to see is that Marcus is getting all the attention over his buddies and those that died. You have to remember that Marcus isn't the hero. Lt Murphy is the real hero in this. He sacrificed his life for his team. Without Lt Murphy, they would all be dead, because nobody in the rear knew what was going on or where exactly they were at. You wouldn't know this because you've never lived life in combat arms jobs. And if you had any two cents in your brain, you would see that Marcus himself compromised the mission by convincing them to let those Taliban herders go. Sorry, but just because they are goat herders doesn't mean they weren't Taliban. Why else would you run back to tell? All they really had to do was tie them up, take the shot (if possible), zip-tie their knees and ankles (to slow them down from reaching the Taliban) then escape and evade. They would have completed their mission wihile avoiding un-needed causalities. Marcus' conscience would have remained intact and they would have been back in the rear drinking cold beers and BBQ'n. Special Operations guys are supposed to be smart, creative, etc. This was some crap I would expect from a line unit. You are suppose to operate in this order: Mission, Men, Me. Marcus operated as: Me, Men, Mission.

Richard H I served Honorably. Nuff said. Until you sign the contract and wear the uniform, STFU and smoke your weed

paul19781105 Pretty disrespectfull for someone who has served...

TheKaffeeKlatsch Not when it's a danger to you or your men's lives. Good soldiers follow LAWFUL orders.

paul19781105 Tell that to drone pilots.

Because he's lied so much he cannot keep track of it.

Half of me is thinking this is gonna turn into a shitstorm like the last comment I made.

What has he lied about? Please, don't cite the bullshit article published in a disgruntled vet column. Give me cold hard facts from reputable sources.

Steven Schmidt I would also recommend checking out a map of Sawtalo Sar, and seeing just how far 7 miles is from where they were ambushed. About 6 miles farther than the village. Luttrell told a sea story for personal fame and profit, at the expense of the man that saved his life, American soldiers and Vets, and Americans in general. No surprise he lived with Rick Perry, and shilled for both he and Donald Trump. He only answers questions through his lawyer. He is everything that is what not to like about America.

luttrell is a hero.

He seems far from broken to me.

+Kayex He's unbreakable

+Walter Butler +Yoman2313 can you bother please JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP

I agree he looks very rough emotionally here, but if you watch some of his more recent speeches and appearances you can tell he has recovered and changed a lot!

Whether he's 'broken' or not, he also said 'much respect'.. The US was actually really respected when we actually fought back after 9/11. But for the last 8 years we've looked extremely weak, & depending who the next US president is will be a huge factor in what happens to the US Military.

why ? why trick people to imagine his PRESENT DAY PAIN in his brain !? leave him be ! wish positive healthy thoughts !! whats wrong with you ? why trick ? 👺

wow it's all good he is alive safe and sound back with his FAMILY in USA miles away from Bullets and bomb but the person that saved him nephew paid for that with a bullet in his head and Mr.hero here don't do or never did shit to help him get to the states at least for saving his ass you know what that called leaving a man on the battle field and if you are a tru solider you know don't care where a man from as long as he pick up a weapon and fight for your cause or alongside you you don't Ever leave him on the battle field I lost all respect for him after I got the fact to all this

Why is he disrespecting the women and saying we saving and giving freedom to American people when they are literally on someone else soul and fighting, it makes no sense

***** huh? do you have a brain tumor?

No some punk ass kids walked up to his front yard and just shot his dog cuz they thought it’d be fun

BAMCIS13450703 aww :( I feel bad for him he went through hell comes back and someone murders his dog

Man he has so much more restraint and self control than I do cause I know for a fact if some psycho ass punks murdered my Dog my bestfriend I know that I would kill the bastards!!!

Yeah. If you read the book and other writing on this event, the general consensus is that Marcus was and is pretty torn about the decision to let the guys go. He said in the the book that he believes if they killed those goat herders, his three best friends would be alive today. However, he felt had to follow the rules of engagement. In some people's mind, saving three American lives is the "right thing to do" where as others believe that sparing "innocent civilians" (those guys were clearly taliban supporters and wanted to kill Americans) is more important.

Kevin Doherty so true

After all that turns right back around and goes back in wow hats off

Yea but to Marcus’s credit he seemed like he didn’t wanna hurt the interviewer’s feelings half way into his answer. But he defended himself strongly. What I’m curious about is why Marcus has so much regret over the decision to let the goat herders go when Gulab stated that the entire Taliban heard the helicopter landing and that they started tracking the SEALs immediately after. That would have made the goat herders running into them more or less irrelevant.

Wrong button to press, she didn't know any better. Some people don't know.

Carcass Luttrell is a conservative who thinks he can justify murder, well he better be pro-abortion then! Shame on Tina Brown for not pushing back on Carcass and letting him get away with his faulty "Hey you weren't there, I was!" conservatove logic

To all the service men and women who fought and died to protect America and its allies, thank You All for your service.

It's spelled SEALs

Mike Orr stfu he’s showing respect who cares about grammar take that shit elsewhere

IRAQ was IS an ILLIEGAL occupation BY CANADA ! woop. sp. U.S.A. why does one EXPECT u.s.a. to be the aggressor. bring ALL Souldiers HOME - defend USA FROM THE na.zi.onist PROPAGANDA machine

@@nickhans1069 A sacrifice is a sinner. why are 18 year olds LISTENING TO THE Vets ? DONT GO TO WAR. no point being the ENEMY THE SACRIFICE and the BLAMED forever. See his eyes to the Applause ? scorn pure. intense.

Thank you looks like Marcus put the interviewer in check(Monday morning quarterback lol)

@P T I was SECFOR I was part of a mounted Infantry unit. I was a 50 gunner and we did convoy security, counterinsurgence patrols, and ran OPs.

There were a lot of vets who walked out of Private Ryan too because it was too real.

I love his answer

can you time tag that bit please? i wanna find it

4:58

@@neiburup9270 thanks man

John marshall um...this is awkward..

+Chuck Norris Hahahaha

+ Clint Eastwood

more like scary b$#% who ran for his life and let his brothers die.

none ya speak for yourself you little bitch wit.

Carcass Luttrell is a conservative who thinks he can justify murder, well he better be pro-abortion then! Shame on Tina Brown for not pushing back on Carcass and letting him get away with his faulty "Hey you weren't there, I was!" conservatove logic

Paul Cummings the book isn’t all true it says Danny Dietz was 35 even though when he fought he was 25

It's a tissue of lies moron, Lutterel ran like a fucking dog and I don't blame him. They were stiffs the minute they landed in tha valley.

@@bastogne315 hey chill Adolf Hit, i mean, Galand.

Google SOFREP and his name, you'll see how tough he was 😂

@@collindowd3541 stfu bitch

Yea, 99% of the US pop lives in a fantasy land, thankfully BECAUSE of our military dealing with the reality of the world at war

centenario de oro dude that’s not even true, where the hell did you learn that😂

centenario de oro what a fucking mess you are

centenario de oro alright you try go fighting dumbass let’s see if your any better. And he never left his brothers

Guys just watch the real operation redwing on yt and it confirms it all

@@chillout8320 Confirms what?

Luis A F. Wetzler you Not out of words obviously

Man you sound more American than some people I know. God bless you and yours and Hi from the states!!

Pretty sure many others almost cry, I too. True warriors and are so deserving of respect for their courage and unselfishness.

Ya that was well said

I disagree with him

Jud Judersawn no one cares troll somewhere else

@@mikeghd6833 Im not trolling. He just rambled about the military knowing what they are doing, when no one said they didn’t

how is he a true hero when he got his buddies and others killed? No lives were saved but his own.

paul19781105 do you think he.wanted to see his buddies die. Saying that is like saying you fought for our freedom and took pain that was not needed but since your brothers died your not a hero

Devin Ford You might want to read the accounts of the guys who have received the MoH from Mogadishu on back. Running from the enemy to save your ass is not heroic. What the Lieutenant did that cost him his own life was the real hero. That's the real sacrifice.

RASO Caboose

I just love the movie Marcus's your my hero!!!

Carcass Luttrell is a conservative who thinks he can justify murder, well he better be pro-abortion then! Shame on Tina Brown for not pushing back on Carcass and letting him get away with his faulty "Hey you weren't there, I was!" conservatove logic

Someone shot his dog DASY in his yard, her name were the initials of his buddies in the seals, they gave him the dog as a service dog. I just listened to his 911 call as he chased them in his car with 2 guns. All they got was probation. It's sickening.

@@lauralishes1 When I heard that call I couldn’t believe. After all he has been through, they murder his dog.

@@lauralishes1 - With such a light sentence like that it makes you wonder if they were minors.

@@herewardthewatchful1014 the one guy was 18 I believe.

Brotherhood

This man has seen most of our worst nightmares in reality.

Of course you do sir 🙄

LCpl Shmuckatelli lmao your user name!! Haven’t heard that in years 😂

@@impactrc6427 Im glad someone finally got a laugh out of it haha

I wouldn't know one end of a gun from the other but I know a hero when I see one. Marcus Luttrell is a hero...

centenario de oro no, Marcus never lied. All of those websites have been disproved.

DestroyCo where you at bro served as a pj for one deployment in iraq and then got out and went to medical school now i'm a doctor and work emergency medicine

+chuckv5150 He's gone back and forth on how he feels about that, and even in this video you can say he's conflicted because he DOESN'T KNOW. Of course part of him wishes they had snuffed them and gone on to finish their mission with all those SEALS home safe and sound... On the other hand, showing mercy and compassion is what will make us the good guys, right? As he says, it's a conundrum that will never be answered. It's a tragedy, what we go through, sometimes.

Luttrell is a liar. The insurgents already knew they were in the area. They heard the Chinook, they likely even found the fast rope, they most likely saw them moving around in the open during the day, and they certainly saw their boot tracks. Luttrell is a warrior, and he is an emotional wreck, but that isn't an excuse for abandoning the man the saved his life because his embellishment and lies about what happened would get exposed.

People change their opinions and values everyday he probably thinks about every single thing that happened over their everyday thinking about what he could have done that shit most likely haunts him

Stacey E wait so you know all of this because you must’ve been there right?

@Gaven Miller that is a valid assessment, had the Afgan herders been dispatched, the likelihood of additional casualties and KIAs' may have been reduced or nullified. Unfortunately Rule 47 of the 1949 Genivia Convention strictly forbids the killing of non-combatants. There are soldiers and contractors who have been charged, court martialed and or convicted with murder for killing civilians under the assumption of a posed threat by way of civilains providing intelligence of military activity to the enemy. Delicate situation, how does one choose and how can one stipulate unequivocally that the goat herders posed as an eventual threat to the success of the operation? He definitely will wrestle with these questions as to why they "voted" on that decision to let the herders go and the lieutenant did not make a command decision. I was not there, however I have been in situations where remembering the minute to minute accounts and details of an occurrence are difficult to recall with definitive accuracy. He made it back and others did not, no amount of finger pointing will bring the downed participants back from the dead. We learn from the mistakes, make adjustments and deploy moving forward.

Did you know there were men in the audience that watch Marcus everytime he speaks to ensure he does not say something unauthoized?. In this particular audience it was an Admiral.

Mark Forquer given all the intel he knows and the publicity he's getting right now i don't doubt that at all. i'd even go as far to say his whole life is one big bug right now.

Mark Forquer how do you know?

***** what?

He's a dick.

Yeah, but he did choose to write the book and then agree to contract the movie and press rights. It's not like it was forced on him. He's said that he is doing this so people will know the stories of his fallen brothers, so I don't think he minds that much.

IMHO I don't think he realized that people would take it this far. As he said, no one asks him about hunting, shooting or sports. Sounds like some regret there, but yes, he did agree to make a book and movie. Double edged sword no doubt. I work with a Nam vet and one time he started talking about what he saw, a 72 year old man started to break down. I told him not to worry about it, no need to talk about it. Let's just get our work done today. It's why I don't ask any Vet what they endured, saw or did. But that's just me.

Talking about their experiences helps normalize them, and it's part of the healing process. It actually helps to get it out in the open.

your cool

he doesn't have to hes doing it 4 $ and like all americans the story is epic and they are unbeatable, he probably hid under a rock the whole time, aussie sas don't sit on national tv they remain silent, I think only half the story is being told, if they had half a brain they would have if not tied them up at least immobilized them very slow movement. my uncles went to Vietnam and recalled how useless and stoned on pot the yanks were . please yanks stop making heroes of yourselves, very tragic storey and I feel very sorry for marcus, but from the interviews ive seen it seems like hes milking the story 4 all its worth. we have current aussie soldiers who were awardered Victoria cross medals, and remain silent

I agree. Who knows what it was like in that situation except for Marcus. Personally, if they actually had zip ties as depicted in the movie, I would have tied their hands together so navigating down the mountain would have been at least 3 times as hard/slow

***** Fuck off.

***** u stupid?0_0 3 innocent civilians!

Luttrell says in another interview that he wishes he would have changed their decision... it's easy to monday night quarterback, but they made the morally correct decision at the time. Personally I would have tied the three of them together so they would navigate more slowly like holyteejful suggested, however they were taliban sympathizers and all of their options were very real.

Remy Kim Saying that not killing the civilians was the right thing to do isn't Monday night Quarterbacking, it's just making a clearly moral statement. There are no real vagaries here. If they'd killed the civilians they would have breached the rules of war. Talking about tying them up, or taking them with them etc. - That's Monday night quarterbacking.

Sybil Galer "Civilians cannot understand the level of commitment, training, skill, dedication" and brainwashing that all service members have. So much that they will invade another country and kill innocent people because they are ordered to by the U.S government. DAYUM. To this day, there are still people (see GOP voters, not ALL of them thou) that think the Iraq War was beneficial for Iraq and the Middle East. AND ALL YOU PUPPET SERVICE MEMBERS DO IS SAY "We were put in a situation, and we did what we had to do" Fucking murderers. If you really had some balls and a conscience (see judgement that assists in distinguishing right from wrong) you would tell your government "We will not go to (Insert name of the country you have invaded here; Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, Afganistan, bombings in Lybia, Pakistan, just to name a few) and kill their people" But since I am talking to a Vietnam Navy Vet, you probably are no more intelligent than a war-mongering psycopath.

Wambli Padilla Actually Wambii my experience in Vietnam has made me a Quaker pacifist. I protested the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Iraq, Afghan War. I agree that the US rush to war is a disgrace. The US domination of foreign countries is egregious. The politicians and civil leadership hold US lives and foreign lives in contempt. The interference in foreign sovereignty has toppled governments and led to the destabilization of countries from South America to the Middle East. It is ultimately responsible for the rise in hatred for America. This wanton imperialism should be resisted by all who value Peace. However, my hatred of war does not compromise my appreciation and love for the men and women who serve with honor.

Sybil Galer I understand and share your point of view. But I do not understand "However, my hatred of war does not compromise my appreciation and love for the men and women who serve with honor" These soldiers are human beings, and they deserve our love as any other human being. I agree with you. But as service men and women they are invading other countries and killing people because they are ordered to. They do not question or protest it. From this point of view, they are harming the world.

Wambii, if you really want to talk and understand you may email me direct at sybilgaler@gmail.com

Sybil Galer I will, I am interested to know your point of view about this

Buddy Dry k V

Ignorant too

GuitarKid218 Nice profile pic ;)

She’s the typical liberal putz and totally clueless.

Was gonna comment the same thing. Having heard his story several times,it’s amazing, and then hearing this cringe ass interview him. Blah. It’s gross.

i swear

Why? They only battled like 7 or 8 Taliban. 4 SEALs couldn't take out 7 or 8 Taliban? Geez....no wonder we keep losing.

Maybe she was having a bad day.

I love Marcus man guy always puts them on the spot he’s a badass true soul and seal