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Marcus Lutrell is born on November 7th in Houston, Texas. He is the younger of his parents two children, and has an older brother named Morgan.
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Luttrell begins training for the special forces at the age of 14 under the command of Billy Sheldton. The training is agonizing and brutal, and many other classmates drop out.
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On March 2nd, 1999, Luttrell enlists in the United States Navy. He later passed boot camp and went on to join the BUD/S class 226.
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Luttrell graduates BUD/S training and receives his SEAL trident. He was forced to receive the trident later than the rest of class 226 because of a femur injury he had during an obstacle course.
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Luttrell is deployed for the first time with SEAL team 5 in Afganistan. His mission is to search for WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction) that Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq, was beleived to be hiding in the Afgan desert.
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Luttrell is selected to be part of Operation Red Wings, which was designed to disrupt anti-Coalition militia forces hiding on the sides of the Sawtalo Sar mountain. Their target was a man wo had been conducting multiple bombings of US forces. (His name is not disclosed in the book)
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Lutrell and the other 3 members of SEAL team 10 engage a force of well over 100 Taliban. SEALs Danny Dietz, Mike Axleson, and Michael Murphy are killed in the fighting, leaving Luttrell the only man of the team still living.
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An MH-47 Chinook helicopter is sent to recover Luttrell from the battlefield. Sadly, it is hit by an RPG and all 16 special forces members aboard are killed in the explosion.
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Luttrell is redeployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. However, his knee is blown out during a firefight and he is forced to return to base.
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Following his injury in Iraq, Luttrell is given a medical discharge from the Navy. Less than a month later, "Lone Survivor" is published and becomes a national bestseller.
