Lone survivor service a navy seal at war

That tool has since been invented by a former Navy captain and SEAL who was the command surgeon for U.S. commandos wrestling with the same ethical choice, never have to make it - all because of a simple, mechanical device just a shade smaller than an old cellphone at a cost of a few hundred dollars?

The deciding vote was mine, and it will haunt me till they rest me in an East Texas grave.'īut what if the Navy SEALs, or any U.S. 'No night passes when I don't wake up in a cold sweat thinking of those moments on that mountain,' writes former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, whose book about what happened inspired the movie starring Mark Wahlberg. The raw debate about the right thing to do when lives are at stake lies at the heart of one of the most popular films now showing, Lone Survivor. The moral dilemma ended with the herders freed, mission compromised and three of the SEALs killed, along with 16 other U.S. The vote was at 10,000 feet in the Hindu Kush mountains of eastern Afghanistan.įour Navy SEALs had to decide whether to execute or spare three Afghan goat herders - one of them a teenage boy - who stumbled into their covert mission in the summer of 2005.

Lone survivor service a navy seal at war