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The Real Life story of Marcus Luttrell, and the disaster known as Operation Red Wings. A film adaptation was released on December 27, 2013, starring Mark Wahlberg.Not to be confused with the 2012 video game.
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Friendly Sniper
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Friendly Sniper: Well, they are friendly to each other, anyway.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Luttrell has one. Justified since he's just seen his three teammates and close friends die in a hail of gunfire, he's been shot, battered, and blown up, and now he's stuffed in a hole while his enemies scour the countryside for him and he's slowly dying of thirst. Since the ordeal he's suffered from PTSD and insomnia.
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Injured Self-Drag
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Injured Self-Drag: A Real Life Trope Codifier. He'd just been through a brutal, hours-long firefight during which he watched his three teammates get killed, and he was shot several times, and suffered a broken back, head trauma, and multiple leg fractures. How did Marcus Luttrell live to tell his tale? By crawling seven miles over mountainous terrain.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka: The Taliban bring it, in the form of long lost Kalashnikovs and cold-war era artillery.
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Ungrateful Bastard
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Ungrateful Bastard: The Taliban ally the SEALs chose to spare.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: That's right, the seven-foot tall, mortally wounded Texan with the satanic-looking tattoo who fell into your village directly after that horrific gunfight, wearing a uniform with a Liefeldian number of pockets, carrying a Mk 12 sniper rifle and enough computer technology to launch the space shuttle is from...wait for it...Doctors Without Borders. It's implied that the villagers knew Luttrell was full of shit but let it slide since they'd already decided to save him anyway.
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War Is Glorious
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War Is Glorious and War Is Hell: Luttrell strongly believes in his work as a Navy SEAL and enjoyed it. But he's also upfront about some of the horrors of the battlefield. He argues that sometimes the military needs to do awful things to prevent worse atrocities, and that anybody who can't stomach that fact has no business giving orders.
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Honor Before Reason
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Honor Before Reason: It's kind of the Pashtun Hat. See The Other Wiki entry on Pashtunwali.
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Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
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Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: The US news media jumps the gun and declares that all the SEALs in Operation Red Wing had died. Representatives from the SEALs, and Marcus's twin brother, reassure Mama Luttrell that Marcus is just Missing In Action, not confirmed dead.
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Twin Telepathy
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Twin Telepathy: Marcus Luttrell and his twin brother Morgan insist they have a connection to each other. When word reaches Texas about how badly Operation Red Wing went, Morgan is certain that Marcus us hurt but still alive, in spite of the news reporting his death.
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Sacred Hospitality
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Sacred Hospitality: Most cultures of the Middle East take hospitality very seriously, but the Pashtun take it up to eleven with Lokshay.
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Heroic Sacrifice
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Heroic Sacrifice: LT Michael Murphy, seeing his team is pinned down and outnumbered, decides to call for an air evacuation. All he has is a cell phone, and the only way he'll get good reception is if he marches into the open, where every Taliban gunner can see him. He gets mortally wounded, but he completes the call. For this, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
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Implacable Man
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Implacable Man: The Taliban forces are this to Luttrel's team. It quickly becomes clear that direct victory is impossible and escape is the only option.
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I Gave My Word
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I Gave My Word: Closely related to Sacred Hospitality. Once the village offered Luttrell asylum, they were honor-bound to defend him to the last man. As Luttrell points out, the members of the Taliban that sought to kill him were likely Pashtun themselves, possibly originally from that very village, and relatives of his protectors. The man who first declared that Marcus was under Lokshay, Mohammad Gulab, technically didn't have the authority to do so on behalf of the whole village. However, it still wouldn't look good if the village elders chose not to honor his pledge once Lokshay had been invoked. They debated the matter for several days before deciding to back Gulab's promise. Marcus Luttrell later helped Mohammad Gulab emigrate to the United States. They are now next-door neighbors in Texas.
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Being Good Sucks
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Being Good Sucks: Luttrell directly attributes the everything-went-to-hell events of the novel to the team's decision to let some Taliban-friendly civilian goatherders live.
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Developing Doomed Characters
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Developing Doomed Characters: The story starts off with introducing the audience to four Navy SEALs, their lives, backgrounds, and the close friendship they share. Keep in mind that the book is called Lone Survivor.
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How We Got Here
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How We Got Here: So nice, they did it twice. The prologue is about Marcus Luttrell visiting the other widows of SEAL Team 10. Chapter 1 skips back to SEAL Team 10's arrival in Afghanistan, with a flashback to their prior deployment to Iraq. Then Luttrell skips back to his childhood in Texas, his enlistment in the Navy, and his training to become a SEAL.
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"Not So Different" Remark
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"Not So Different" Remark: Despite the rampant Deliberate Values Dissonance, Luttrell is impressed by the villagers' honor, courage, and commitment. That's a pretty big deal.
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Inter-Service Rivalry
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Inter-Service Rivalry: When the US personnel who arrive to extract Luttrell from the village turn out to be Army Rangers, Luttrell jokingly complains needing to be rescued by Rangers is something he'll never live down.
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Made of Iron
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Made of Iron: As a rule, the Navy SEALS are required to be this. Special mention goes to Axelson, who continues to gun down insurgents even after being shot in the head.
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Despite the Plan
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Despite the Plan: What seemed like a well-devised and -researched operation quickly collapses on itself as more and more unfortunate, unpredictable factors get thrown into the mix.
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No Woman's Land
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No Woman's Land: The only women who appear in the story are Luttrel's mother and the widows of SEAL Team 10. If he ever saw a Pashtun woman, he doesn't mention it.
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Sole Survivor
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Sole Survivor: As expected. Luttrell is the only survivor of his SEAL team.
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Edible Theme Naming
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Edible Theme Naming: Checkpoints and codewords during the operation were named after alcoholic beverages.
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Author Filibuster
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Author Filibuster: Several places in the book, Luttrell pauses the action to talk about how little he likes the news media, or how awesome Texas is. But the one topic he keeps coming back to is the Rules Of Engagement that all military personnel must follow—and in Luttrel's opinion, how much these rules (or more specifically, the absurdly-restrictive ones used in Afghanistan and Iraq that were based entirely on PR with the realities and complexities of warfare being little more than an afterthought) hinder the military from doing its job right.
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Sadistic Choice
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Sadistic Choice: Three Pashtun goatherds (one of them just a boy) stumble upon the SEAL team, and the SEALs take them captive. The SEALs then have two options: they can let the goatherds go, in which case they'll almost certainly alert the Taliban and jeopardize the entire mission. Or they can kill the goatherds and complete the mission, in which case the killing will almost certainly be discovered, and even if they themselves aren't convicted of any crime, the entire Navy SEALs will be painted as war criminals by the media.
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Four men held off AN ARMY... for a while.
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Ninja
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Ninja: If the SEALs aren't, nobody is.
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You Can Barely Stand
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You Can Barely Stand: All four men end up riddled with bullets, but keep fighting to the last.
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Marcus Luttrell notes the many times that he dropped his rifle while falling down the mountain, yet it always landed right next to him. It's not explicitly miraculous, but he attributes these unlikely events to God's divine intervention all the same.
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Come with Me If You Want to Live
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Come with Me If You Want to Live: The friendly Pashtun villager offers to save the injured and understandably suspicious Luttrell.
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Elites Are More Glamorous: Zigzagged, but ultimately played straight. Luttrel's account of the indignities of BUDS just makes it that much cooler in the end.
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Training from Hell
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Training from Hell: INDOC (the SEAL qualification training) is no walk in the park. BUD/S (the actual SEAL training) is even worse. And the absolute worst is Hell Week, in which the trainees carry out grueling exercises while cold, wet, sandy—and get about three or four hours to sleep the entire week.
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Worst Aid: The SEALs have no choice but to resort to very crude methods of sealing and treating their gruesome wounds.
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Know When to Fold 'Em
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Know When to Fold 'Em: Lt. Murphy, after sparing the shepherds, quickly chooses to cancel the mission on account of this unexpected factor, but by then it was already too late. The four frogmen also spend a great deal of effort and pain fleeing from the overwhelming Taliban forces. The Taliban forces, realizing they are outnumbered by the Pashtun villagers, leave and do not return to fight.
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Everything Is Big in Texas
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Everything Is Big in Texas: Has Luttrell mentioned he's from Texas today? Because he's from Texas.
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Blue-and-Orange Morality
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: Luttrell has no idea why the villagers are so hell-bent on defending him against the Taliban, and simply comes to accept that their motivations as different from his own, without really understanding. His explanations in the text about Pashtun honor codes (especially Lokshay) are actually post-facto intelligence from cultural experts.
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: But conversely, sometimes a good deed is also rewarded.
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Dwindling Party
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Dwindling Party: The SEALs are killed one by one.
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Never Found the Body
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Never Found the Body: Lampshaded: you should never believe a SEAL is dead until you've seen the corpse. So the Navy insists that Luttrell is just MIA—in spite of the news reporting him dead—and is ultimately proven right when they contact Luttrell five days later.
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Mighty Whitey
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Mighty Whitey: Averted. The rural and supposedly unsophisticated village is already supplied with a full-fledged doctor and plenty capable of defending itself. Luttrel's considerable martial and medical skills are entirely redundant.
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Pet the Dog: Subverted, when the "dog" isn't interested. The SEALs try to offer an Afghan boy an MRE, but the boy just glares at them and ignores the offering.
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