re: Lone Survior was a good movie but ending is total BS (spoilers)

I don't know the particulars of that mission at all, but I do know that SEALs like to work in small groups. Well, walking around the mountains of Afghanistan is infantry type work no matter how many tabs or tridents you get to wear. I know we all like to say that 1 SEAL=10 Taliban but numbers are numbers and math is a real thing. So in real life 4 SEALs don't equal 10-15 taliban. Especially when everyone has an automatic weapon.

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I comletely understand that his experiences changed him, probably for the worse. But, as was mentioned earlier, there's something about him that just irks me.

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Something about him irks me as well.. It's just so hard to believe that he is the only one who survived.. I'm in no way taking away from what those men did out there and in no way downplaying Luttrell.. Just seems a bit fishy. Why did he leave his teammates is all I'm getting at. No telling what I would have done because I'm definitely no hero

I think the US ground forces were from the 101st and 10th Mountain. SF and Delta had established several overwatch positions around the upper and lower Shahikot (spelling?) Valley before the operation kicked off. The Rangers may have entered the fight in the valley after the initial contact. I don't remember off the top of my head.

The SEALs (Mako 30 - 5 or 6 SEALs and an AF Combat Controller) decided they'd insert right on top of Takur Ghar, rather than approaching on foot. As they were landing, the helicopter got shot up and Neil Roberts either jumped or fell (he was first man on the ramp) as the helo tried to abort. They hard landed, loaded into a second helo and went back for Roberts. Second helo got shot up too, but was able to fly away after unloading Mako 30. The SEALs broke contact (they had two badly wounded and Roberts was still missing), but left AF TSgt John Chapman on the ridge. Then the Ranger QRF helo was shot down on the ridge. They held and eventually defeated the enemy insurgents on the ridge with the help of AF close air support.

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They were dead. He was shot up and alone. I would have left them too.

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Haven't finished reading the book. But I know he gives vivid descriptions of their deaths.... Did he watch them die?

What got his team killed had nothing to do with rotary insertion or extraction.

Slow your role there high speed. Was just asking a question. Definitely was not asking why did he leave them when they were already dead.

He was holding Danny when he caught his fatal round if I remember correctly. He and Axe were separated by a rpg blast, but after he saw the damage Axe took from a round to the head

He didn't see Mikey die, but he heard Mikey scream his name until he died

You're mistaken about the Redwings insertion. There were two 160th SOAR MH-47s used that night. One simulated three or four insertions in the general area and one fastroped Luttrell and his teammates in a couple of miles from their objection. The hiked for five or six hours to get there.

Gotcha... In that case, I'm mistaken! And FYI, I wasnt trying to break your balls. I thought you were implying that Redwings inserted right on their objective, like Mako 30. My mistake.

No worries. TD has more than it's share of assholes and I don't want to be one of them. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.