...I always thought playing a field hockey game with a sprained ankle was tough, or remaining in the game after getting hit in the elbow with a pitch; that is until this past weekend. Saturday afternoon, I learned what toughness really is, in the form of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell. The 120 minutes I sat in the theater and watched Lone Survivor taught me not only the true definition of toughness, but about brotherhood and loyalty to those around you. Lone Survivor is the tale of four Navy SEALs, who as part of operation Red Wings were dropped into the mountainous region of Afghanistan to do surveillance and ultimately eliminate the leader of a pro-Taliban group, who was responsible for the recent killing of a group of marines. The film begins where all SEAL life begins, BUDs training and hell week. Although the glimpse into the training of the seals was brief, it opened the window into just mentally and physically tough America’s ultimate warriors are. From the repeated exposure to ungodly cold water, the team boat carries to the tactically operations; these men are tested every which way possible. We are introduced to our four main characters: Marcus Luttrell, Mike Murphy, Matt Axelson and Danny Dietz, as the group is experiencing the all too common down time between missions. Very quickly the action heats up as the four are briefed on their mission and begin preparations. The mission begins routinely enough as they are dropped into the mountains and hike their way to the...
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...Lone Survivor: The eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL team 10 by Marcus Luttrell is the nonfiction story of how Marcus Luttrell became the lone survivor of a doomed Navy SEAL operation. Faced with insurmountable obstacles, Marcus some overcame the adversity he faced and made it back to the United States alive. Marcus Luttrell was born in Houston, Texas on November 7, 1978. From a very young age, Marcus new that he wanted to be a Navy SEAL. At age 15, he began training with an Army veteran named Billy Shelton. He and his twin brother Morgan were both vigilant students under the tutelage of Shelton. After completing high school, Marcus was accepted to Sam Houston State University, and was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity....
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...Lone Survivor is a book based on the true story of the events that happened during Operation Red Wing. It was written by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson. Operation Red Wing was a covert Navy SEAL mission that occurred on June 28, 2005. This was a mission to obtain reconnaissance on known Taliban terrorist, Ahmed Shah in Afghanistan. The members of the mission were four Navy Seals. The four SEAL team members included Lieutenant Michael Murphy, Petty Officer Matthew Axelson, Petty Officer Danny Dietz, and Hospital Corpsman Marcus Luttrell. These four Seal team members became engulfed in a fierce firefight with a much larger group of Taliban fighters. They were outnumbered, outgunned, and were at a disadvantage in location. Despite all these limiting factors, they fought courageously and valiantly. In the words of SEAL Marcus Luttrell, they were never out of the fight....
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...Hard work, determination, and perseverance is what defines U.S Navy Seals. In Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell, Luttrell tells the story of how he grew up in Houston, Texas, and how he was the only Seal to survive the biggest catastrophe ever within the U.S Navy Seals. This #1 New York Times bestseller was written to inform the audience of a courageous story between four patriotic Navy Seals. Luttrell, the author of this book, is also the speaker of the story. Throughout the entire story he is speaking in first person point of view. The story began with Marcus growing up and finally graduating from BUDs training on February 2, 2001; however, the large occasion in the story lasted for about 5 months in 2005. The large occasion was when...
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...Your life flashes by your eyes after falling down the steep cliffs of Afghanistan. BANG BANG, gunshots and rockets are being fired at you from everywhere by Taliban militants. As you traversed the shale, rocky, Hindu Kush mountains to escape them, you watch your friends all around you being shot and killed in action. This is just one example of the suffrage that Marcus Luttrell went through when he joined the U.S Navy Seals in his non-fiction autobiography Lone Survivor. Marcus Luttrell was a born warrior, he knew from a young age that he wanted to be in the military. He was given heavy discipline and taught to hunt by his father. He became a very efficient killer and spent much of his early life preparing for the military with a man named...
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...terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001 made U.S President George W. Bush to send American troops to Afghanistan to fight al Qaeda and their crazy followers of Osama bin Laden. This war have taken away lots of people lives. Young Americans die their almost every day. The book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell is not just a real story about SEAL team 10 fighting Taliban terrorist but insight of social media’s negative affect on war as well. Author of the book Marcus, is the actual SEAL that was on duty fighting side by side with his team members: Matthew Axelson, Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz in a suicide mission – Redwing. Luttrell is the only man out of four seals, including other eight seals who died trying rescue the team 10, who stayed alive. The Navy SEALs are extremely trained soldiers and they usually act in small groups of four men. Being a Navy SEAL is one of the hardest jobs and certainly one of the most dangerous. Although book starts by Marcus talking about his team on the plane over Afghanistan, then about himself and the rest of the team, and what he had been through to become a SEAL. Then goes back talking of what happened during the mission of Redwing, book is involving and really easy to read. Marcus is the team’s sniper and medic. He is from Texas, has twin brother Morgan. They both have similar physique, height of 6’5 and weight of 230 pounds. He and brother always felt that their dad wants them to become Navy Seals. Since...
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...I am reading Lone survivor by Marcus Luttrell and I am on page 176. This book is about Marcus Luttrell a proud Navy SEAL. He joined the SEAL’s to help find the people that cause 9/11. When his team is on a special operation they are discovered by some goat herders and are exposed by the herders. In this paper I will be predicting and evaluating. What would have happened if the Americans would have kept the goat herders instead of letting them run back to the village? The soldiers thought that if they kept the herders their families would have been expecting them to return by nightfall. The villagers would have known the trails that the herders would take and would have a good idea of where to find them. Lastly if the villagers came looking...
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...Military Ethics PHI208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Prof Whitney Easton 10 March, 2014 Military Ethics This paper will discuss the topic of military ethics using the utilitarian theory. It will also incorporate the ethical system of virtue ethics. “Military ethics is about our learning what is good and true and then having the courage to do and be what and who we ought to. For military ethics is not about his or her successes or failures; it is not about their virtues or vices. Military ethics is about our heritage and history, and it is about our responsibility to be men and women of character.” (Toner, 2003) Strong military ethics are vital to maintaining disciplined service members, to providing a clear moral compass to follow and developing good character as well. First, military ethics could easily be applied to either theory, utilitarian or deontological; however, the utilitarian theory seems to be the better fit of the two. Even though it may seem that choosing the utilitarian theory focuses strictly on the greater good for the mass, it is however, a straightforward and direct way to evaluate behavior. Another ethical system, virtue ethics, can be associated with military ethics because by its definition virtue ethics emphasizes the role of one’s character and the virtues that one’s character embodies for determining or evaluating ethical behavior. (Wikipedia) The ethics that the military services have established follow a similar intent amongst the men and...
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