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Navy SEAL's Savior Claims 'Lone Survivor' Got It Wrong
Marcus Luttrell and the Afghan villager who saved him had a falling out over money, respect and what really happened during Operation Red Wings.
www.newsweek.com
Too long to copy/paste most of it. But basically Marcus, the Navy SEAL that the Afghan Gulab saved, turned against Gulab and used him as a prop to promote his movie that he made bank of. After the movie, Marcus reneged on his promise to help him get a green card and ditched him completely. How do people like this live with themselves?
Here are some snippets:
The battle, Gulab claims, was short-lived. He wasn't on the mountain with Luttrell but says everyone in the village could hear the gunfire. Gulab scoffs at the estimate by Naval Special Warfare Command that 35 Taliban died in the battle. (A Navy spokesman declined to comment on the matter.) But the Afghan claims the villagers and American military personnel who combed the mountain for the bodies of the dead SEALs never found any enemy corpses. (Andrew MacMannis, a former Marine Colonel who helped draw up the mission and was on scene during the search and recovery effort for the dead SEALs and other military personnel, says there were no reports of any enemy casualties.)
More puzzling: While Luttrell wrote that he fired round after round during the battle, Gulab says the former SEAL still had 11 magazines of ammunition when the villagers rescued him—all that he had brought on the mission.
"[Luttrell's claims] are exaggerated nonsense," says Patrick Kinser, a former Marine infantry officer who participated in Operation Red Wings and read the former SEAL's after action report. "I've been at the location where he was ambushed multiple times. I've had Marines wounded there. I've been in enough firefights to know that when shit hits the fan, it's hard to know how many people are shooting at you. [But] there weren't 35 enemy fighters in all of the Korengal Valley [that day]."
