Now married and a father, Luttrell also looks at the women who marry SEALs. Returning home and leaving military life, Luttrell began a quest to understand why a rare few choose to risk their lives to serve their country. In SERVICE, Luttrell walks us through this unbelievable battlefield and also offers new insight about his time in Afghanistan, Operation Redwing, and his awe-inspiring rescue. Ramadi was the bookend success to Operation Redwing’s disaster and has been called the greatest victory in the history of U.S. Luttrell fought fiercely, and by the time he left, the city was virtually becalmed. The epic battle ran from 2005 into 2007, and the fighting crested at the time Luttrell arrived, in 2006. Full of high-intensity urban fighting, the battle for Ramadi was perhaps the most perilous U.S. Luttrell spent six months in the most dangerous city in the world, Ramadi, Iraq, in Anbar Province-Al Qaeda’s self-proclaimed capital in the Middle East. He went back to war, this time as part of SEAL Team 5.
Then, in October 2006, Luttrell did what any SEAL would do. Throughout this time, he wondered why he and others, from America’s founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything-including themselves-for the sake of family, nation, and freedom. I was asked to do a book review of the book, Service: A Navy Seal at War by Marcus Luttrell. Now I don’t normally read books about war. I guess I just never felt drawn to them but this book looked interesting-Īfter coming home from a fateful, star-crossed mission in Afghanistan, Marcus Luttrell recuperated and nursed his body and heart back to health.
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