Lone survivor

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy Seals left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Queda leader. Less than twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALS remained alive. Marcus Luttrell is the sole survivor of Operation Redwing, the desperate battle in the mountains that led to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. Luttrell was blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and breathing. Over the next four days, badly injured and presumed dead, he fought off six al Qaeda assassins who were sent to finish him off, then crawled for seven miles through the mountains before he was taken in by a Pashtun tribe who risked everything to protect him from the encircling Taliban killers.