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    dispatch to base and retrieve assistance but the Taliban shoot down the helicopter. During battle, three of the Navy SEAL soldiers were killed leaving one still alive. Director Peter Berg based this movie off of Marcus luttrell the survivor of Operation Red Wings. This powerful war film features actor Mark Walberg who portrays the real life

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    Lone Survivor Based on a true story of four US Navy SEALs in Afghanistan. In 2005 , Navy SEALs Marcus Luttrell, Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz, and Matthew "Axe" Axelson deploy on a mission of surveillance and to take out Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. Though spotted by goatherds, Luttrell and his team decide not to kill, or tie them on the trees, but to release them. But one of the Afghans alerts a group of Taliban fighters to the invaders, and a terrible battle ensues, in which the SEALs find themselves

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    Ryan Martin AP Govt: Book Report 10.8.16 Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 details the events of an unsuccessful Navy SEAL mission which resulted in 19 US Military casualties, and only one member of SEAL Team 10 surviving. The book was written by Marcus Luttrell with the help of ghost writer, Patrick Robinson, and published in 2007. Marcus

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    Michael Patrick Murphy, a navy seals team 10, was involved in a dangerous operation that was supposed to be quick and easy but went horribly wrong. Murphy was born on the 7th of May 1976 and died on the 28th of June 2005 in battle. He fought in Afghanistan for the navy seals alongside four other people. Murphy was born on the 7th of May 1976, In Smithtown, New York. He attended Saxton middle school and graduated from Patchogue Medford High School. He then went to university at Pennsylvania State

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    “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10,” is a military non-fiction book, written by Marcus Luttrell and told through a 1st person point of view. In this story, he retells his life leading up to becoming a Navy SEAL and describes a life changing experience with the Seals called Operation Redwing, where he lost three of his closest friends and comrades. In the beginning of the book Luttrell, recalls his tough, country-style upbringing in Texas

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    He set up in the building and set up with his sniper and was ready to take a shot. Seal Team Six is a book about a man who decided that he wants do something more with his life and signs up for the military. When he gets into the military he goes through intense training and moves through the ranks to eventually become a seal team six member.Because this shows the reader how hard and stressful the military is and how you can achieve anything by trying your hardest. Also it is a experience that not

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    Operation Red Wings was an operation that took place on June 27th, 2005 in northeastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province. The Afghan Parliamentary elections were scheduled for September of 2005, and Red Wings was supposed to disrupt insurgent activity in the area. The operation, had it gone as planned, would have helped bring stability to the region and facilitated successful elections later that year. Red Wings was supposed to be a multi-phase joint military operation. It was planned by the Marines

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    Motion picture films are evolving at a very fast rate in todays world, it is one of the biggest industries in the world and it is growing bigger and bigger every year. There are countless hit movies that are known around the world. This includes a very well know film Lone Survivor it is among some of the best and most well-known movies in history, partially because it is based on a true event that took place and the event that did take places made history and today’s world. With great actors and

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    Operation Redwing Analyisis

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    Operation Red Wing On June 28, 2005 The SEAL team, led by LT Michael P. Murphy and consisting of petty officers Matthew Axelson, Danny Dietz and Marcus Luttrell, were on a mission to kill or capture Ahmad Shah, a Taliban leader who commanded a group of insurgents known as the "Mountain Tigers," west of Asadabad. The initial counter-insurgent mission in Kunar Province, Afghanistan seemed to be running accordingly with a successful infiltration into enemy territories until local Goat herders stumbled

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    Michael Murphy, Matthew Axelson, and Danny Dietz is one of the most inspiring stories ever. The movie Lone Survivor was created based on the real events that took place in 2005. Marcus and his three SEAL comrades were sent on a mission, code named Operation Red Wings. The mission required them to find Ahmad Shah, a Taliban militia leader that was killing American soldiers. The four men were flown into the heart of Afghanistan in a Chinook transport helicopter and were dropped off into the unknown. When

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