@@dortywings7217 The movie tells the story actually very accurately, despite being surrounded the four seals killed quite a few. Best estimates put them at having taken down 35 insurgents to their four, if you don't count the chopper which was shot down and killed everyone on board, these men didn't even get a chance. They also didn't screw up their mission, well I guess they did by not killing a group of civilian goat herders that spotted them. They instead spared them and those Afghans tipped off the insurgents. Lone Survivor while not entirely accurate never portrays any of the Seals as super amazing badasses who can stop anyone, the movie is about one man losing his best friends in a horrific ambush and then being tasked to survive alone. But more importantly this a fucking meme, if you're upset go somewhere else and leave Wojak to his work.
@@HistoryFeels wait you did the voices too??? I thought it was from a movie or something!!! damn thats skill. this song is helping me get through a brutal hospital stay haha
The recovery operation was equally dramatic. The 75th ranger regiment spent 4 days hiking up and down the mountains looking for the bodies of those SEALs or a survivor. The tripped stumbled and fell all over those slopes until marines came in to assist. Then they spent 10 more days taking shifts from a patrol base to continue searching. For the remaining 3 SEALs.
Seal Team Six, Ranger's and Marines Humped through KUNAR. We had a SOF team tell us to get fucked when they came in to do an OP in the Korngal. Those mountains will fuck your shit up. Add being shot at with AK's, SPG-9's and Dshk's. . . . . . I would rather go back to that then deal with the bullshit going on in America right now, Shit was simple just "Don't die".
The Marines of 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, who had planned OP RED WINGS, were going after a relatively low level target named Ahmed Shaw, as their previous operations, and the unit they'd replaced, had nabbed all the known high and medium value targets successfully. Unfortunately, they were not part of a Marine Air Ground Task Force, and didn't possess organic lift assets needed to conduct it. So they asked for helo support from 160th SOAR (the famed Night Stalkers) who were assigned to Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan (CJSOTF-A). The region SOTF command was run by SEALs who only agreed as long as they were to run the recon, and act as the main effort assault element to conduct the air assault raid against the target buildings thought to house the HVTs, while the rest of the Marine infantry company tasked with supporting missions, specifically the outer cordon. Because they had no options, and they wanted the mission to go ahead to nab the bad guy, the Marines agreed. This is not uncommon, its actually the norm. SOCOM are often on the lookout for good missions and they often get them from "poaching" intel or fully developed ops from conventional units. Per the planning of Red Wings, the recon element was was going to be inserting the day before on the high ground nearby to three named areas of interest (NAI) that were supposed to be under observation to spot the targets. They were supposed to not only confirm the presence of Shaw, but also provide additional intel. 2/3 had planned to conduct the recon using a Scout Sniper six man team, headed by a very experienced team leader. They had worked in that area often before, knew the relative ground, knew the limitations of radios, etc. Their plan was to get helo lifted miles away from the objective, land, then infiltrate by foot. When the SEALs poached the recon mission, the new recon element was a four man team who had never worked recon in Afghanistan before, weren't trained in recon, only one individual ever having deployed to a combat zone before. They ignored advice to bring more powerful radios, as the Marines knew from experience that the one the SEALs brought couldn't push out far enough, it didn't have enough power. Additionally, the SEAL recon team didn't have a Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency (PACE) plan for comms, only having the weak MBITR and a sat phone as backup. Neither were adequate, and they were warned. More so, their plan was significantly flawed. Not wanting to spent the time and energy walking to the objective, they decided to get helo inserted a few hundred meters away. They attempted to mitigate the risk of landing near directly on the Observation Point (OP) by having numerous false insertions done all over the valley area over the previous week, to keep the locals guessing, which only ended up tipping them off that an operation was in the works. But in recon, its an outright sin to ever airlift onto the OP. Every measure must be taken to keep it hidden, to keep the presence of the recon team hidden. After they fast roped down on the landing zone, per norm, the fast ropes were disconnected from the helicopter, but the SEAL recon team did not hide them, they left them in the open. Locals, sent out when they'd heard the choppers, found them pretty quickly, and using their own comms, reported it back. At that time the SEAL team had made it to the high ground and beyond, were trying to find a good OP to overwatch the NAIs, which proved difficult as the position they initially chose at night proved poor when light came at dawn. After daybreak they moved OPs. [Map of area and NAI and OPs](qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-edab31a62fcaf190fd909e25ba9413e6.webp) The locals, knowing ISAF rules of engagement, sent up some unarmed individuals, with radios, with some sheep, into the hills to scout them out. This is a common TTP in COIN ops to find snipers and recon element hide sites. In Iraq, they'd sent kids or unarmed adults to check on certain buildings, knowing we wouldn't kill them if we found them. If they found us, they'd report back. It worked during Red Wings. The SEAL recon team was spotted. Compromised, they detained the sheepherders. At that point the operation was blown. They have just been soft compromised, though without knowing it they'd also been hard compromised as those herders were part of a deliberate counter-recon element so Shaw and the enemy fighters in the village knew they'd been caught when they didn't report back. But because the SEAL recon team never established a formal plan for being compromised they had to make the decision on the spot of what to do. Instead of executing the actions of a pre-made drill for compromise, (depending on the story version) they got into a debate about what to do and even possibly held a vote. Confusion was also on what to do with the detainees. AT NO TIME WAS KILLING THEM ACTUALLY A LEGAL OPTION. Or realistic. The easiest thing to do would have been to gag them and flex cuff them to a tree. Instead they let them go (where they instantly ran off to warn everyone), while the SEALs picked up and moved, but not far. So after being compromised, the SEALs moved to high ground to make the call on their radio to alert the command element what had happened. Note, they didn't vacate the area, they moved maybe a hundred meters away from where they'd been spotted. Meanwhile, their comms weren't working, so the radio traffic was broken taking far longer than it should have without any real benefit of transmitting information. Meanwhile, the local enemy, realistically numbering about 12 fighters, having been briefed by the returning herders on the location of the SEALs, their size, their weapons, created a plan, climbed the hills to reach a position where they could ambush the infidels on their way back up to the high ground which was on the way back to the LZ (which they sent RPG gunners to overwatch in case a helicopter showed up). Finally, the SEAL recon team moving back toward the high ground through a draw (the NE Gulch), but got ambushed at relatively close range by roughly a squad sized element in strength, with machine guns. Possibly RPG and mortar, though in the video the insurgents made I never saw evidence of explosive weaponry. [Map of ambush, blue arrow is SEAL retreat](www.darack.com/sawtalosar/ambush-graphic.php) The fight was brief, and the SEALs that weren't hit immediately tried to break contact downhill. Luttrell effectively fell down the mountain, while the patrol leader, Mike Murphy, made a call on the sat phone before dying. The other two died during this time too. They didn't kill any of the locals, it was an entirely one sided fight. The Quick Reaction Force 10 SEALs in a 160th SOAR Chinook, escorted by two Apaches. The SEAL mission commander aboard the Chinook ordered the pilots to reach the LZ ASAP, and because the Chinook flies faster than the Apaches they arrived first. Because the Apaches weren't present, despite them having the thermal optics that would have been able to visually clear the landing zone, and the weaponry to physically clear it, the Chinook flared and started its landing, in broad daylight, under the observation of RPG gunner stationed there, and was targeted and hit, crashing, killing all onboard. [Map of area of operations, with original RT insertion LZ and QRF LZ/Shootdown pos marked](www.darack.com/sawtalosar/sawtalo-oblique-west.php) Another SOCOM QRF element, of primarily Rangers, were sent in the next day, they landed elsewhere and walked in, they are the ones who found Luttrell, who had been rescued by a villager in a local village, who apparently still had all his mags, loaded. They also recovered the bodies and secured the helicopter crash site. Besides recovering all weapons and equipment belonging to the SEALs, and having video footage of the fight, the local leader and target of the raid, Ahmed Shaw, also got a computer they'd brought that once broken into possessed the schematics of the US embassy in Kabul, as well as other sensitive information. He took that intel, and the videos, and cobbled together an effective propaganda video that earned him major credibility, which led to increased funding, recruitment, etc., causing him to turn into a legitimate High Value Target. [For more info](www.darack.com/sawtalosar/)
Oh yeah, that was one hundred percent the mask of the soldier coming down. At the beginning, he's a frightened man, cornered and alone. When the bullets start coming in, he knows he doesn't have the time to be scared, so he psychs himself up. That's also really well captured in the shit he yells at the enemy. He's building himself up as much as he can so he can keep running on adrenaline.
"We all have our crosses to bear. We carry them heavily, out of love for our brothers in arms. But sometimes you have to let go of the idea that anyone down here is in control." Marcus Luttrell (Survivor of Op Red Wings)
@@ShortArmOfGod He didn't leave them to die, he was just the only one to not get popped. It was an entirely one sided fight, they fucked up, left clues and got spotted by the locals. Taliban set up an ambush. The fight lasted under a minute, the SEALs got dropped instantly, Lutrell managed to run and jump off a cliff. There's a lot of bullshit surrounding this mission, how the SEALs fought off like 200 Taliban or whatever, but it wasn't Lutrell's fault they got killed. He got lucky and escaped.
Thank you for your service. I would like to ask, why are RPG’s considered so deadly to aircraft? I thought they weren’t controlled/only go in a straight line. Or, are there RPGs that actually target moving targets?
@@IloveCanada-ql5vtI'm no Army aviator or any kind of military pilot so I may not be the best guy to answer this, but this is what I do know. RPG's (Rocket Propelled Grenades) are every pilots worst nightmare. This ESPECIALLY goes for helicopter pilots. These shoulder fired missiles are equipped with some nasty powerful explosive charges that can tear through metal like wet toilet paper. Helicopters are generally by aircraft standards pretty lightweight so they can fly. And in order to fly, they still require metal structure and plating to sheild the inner workings and mechanical and electrical components needed to fly. But that same metal needs to be sparse enough as not to be weighed down by its armor. Oftentimes the metal plating is about 5mm thick. Enough to stop bullets (usually referred to as "small arms fire") from a fair distance away; like say from about 2000 meters from the ground. Which is pretty common flight height for combat aviation. Part of a helicopters engineering more often than not requires the use of a tail rotor. This rotor acts as a counterbalance to keep the centrifugal energy of the main rotor on top from causing the helicopter from spinning out. So now imagine something that can easily reach and just as easily destroy such a component and force said helicopter to start spinning out of control and slamming into the hard ground or water at about 80 mph. There's a reason why hearing about someone surviving a plane or helicopter crash is considered to be so miraculous. And to answer the other part of your question, yes, there are a number of these types of RPG weapon systems outfitted with guidance systems allowing that rocket to track a target and hit with pinpoint accuracy. In fact, there are several of these weapon systems that were specifically DESIGNED to take out aircraft. The missiles fly farther, faster and hit generally even harder but lack penetrative power to punch through thicker armor. That's why there are missiles that are just as effective against ground targets meant to punch through thicker armor. Granted most "RPG's" you hear and see are viewed as the aptly named RPG-7v2's which are russian made mass produced and are just as DEVASTATING. Those things pack a MEAN punch and are still used by insurgents today. They also are reloadable and can be loaded with different types of munitions. Cluster, incendiary armor piercing (AP for short) though these munitions are sorta rare and difficult to get ahold of. Most of the time they're loaded with High Explosive Anti Tank (or HEAT for short) However, these weapons lack a guidance system and rely on fins near the thruster to guide it to target and require a line of sight. So they do require a fair amount of skill to be effective and can even then still misfire or get blown off course by wind and other factors. The point is, if you hear "RPG!" when you're flying, you'd be shitting bricks like this fine gentleman above me. So to quote a game I played a while ago "Old rocket arty, inaccurate but fuck will it ruin your day if they get it right." For a more up close understanding of why helicopters and RPG's don't mix, I'd HIGHLY RECOMMEND you watch the movie Blackhawk down" directed by Ridley Scott. It's an incredible film To the dude who originally posted this comment, you have my respect and I thank you for your service even though you're probably sick of hearing it. Still though, Respect brother.
&lloveCanada-ql5vt RPG = Rocket Propelled Grenade. They can be made a few different ways, either air burst to explode on a timer or AT that almost burrow into armor and explode shrapel through the hole that's why APCs & tanks are not fans of RPGs. Missiles & RPGs are different. To my knowledge RPGs cannot be guided.
@@IloveCanada-ql5vtBecause helicopters can't evade quickly, especially if they are hovering and touching down to pick someone up. Look up the scene from Blackhawk down
Reading the back story on this whole thing really tells you a lot about how extreme overconfidence and underestimation can get a bunch of otherwise extremely skilled people killed. It also shows how you need to look at your fuck ups, acknowledge, and learn about them, not bury them.
And it tells us that if you run away from a firfight with all your 11 magazines full, leave your wounded comrades screaming for you, their combat medic to save them, and then intimidate the afghans that save you into not speaking up about the truth, you can sell a whole lot of books and then Mark Walberg will play you in a film that's not acurate. Not saying Luttrel is not a hero, but based on the events of Red Wings alone, he is far from one. The guys on the Chinook, on the other hand, are. They risked and lost it all after trying to save their comrades from a fucked up situation.
@@Jager_sog9 Agreed. Got all of his friends killed, the entire QRF, all because his team's ego kept them from listening to all the intel they were given, taking the mission from the dedicated team, and then planning it all horribly.
@@Jager_sog9 There's a lot of bullshit surrounding Red Wings but the idea that it was Lutrell's fault they got massacred is retarded. No one screamed for shit. They all got ripped apart in the first 20 seconds of the "firefight". The Taliban set up an ambush because they were careless, left clues and got spotted by the locals. The SEALs never stood a chance. Lutrell was just lucky, managed to sprint and jump off a cliff.
@@Real_Mick3y6 This is pretty much the agreed upon story with backing from SEALs, marines, etc about the mission. Lutrell's squads planning was idiotic, they weren't properly manned or equipped for the mission they were undertaken nor had properly trained. They threw out everything they had been taught and ended up getting themselves and their friends killed. While he embellished the story quite a bit, its still a very painful memory considering how small those communities are and how a lot of people knew those men that died in the chinook
1:24 the way he says it and the beat hits gave me fucking goosebumps. Reminds me of the pure feeling of " I did not come this far to die now" 10/10 man thank you for this wonderful Video
When the audio tells a story, the music resonates with you. The context, the voices, the desperation, its awesome. Never stop doing what you do. You absolutely kill at this man!
Holy shit just 10 seconds in and I’m already loving this video, the animation, the wojak, and the music. I can tell the audio is sourced from something like a video-game and I find the retorts a bit comical and fitting at the same time, your content keeps getting better lad, here’s to another good one🍉!
The background firefight and chatter is from a movie called Lone Survivor, movie about this exact operation. Pretty sad but amazing movie. With additional sounds from Insurgency Sandstorm
"should I stay or should I go" but you're a British soldier being ambushed in Londonderry "Run trough the jungle" but you're running to the evac site "La victoire est a nous" but the Prussian have arrived at Waterloo
Insurgency Sandstorm deserves more love. Crazy how a mid-budget multiplayer-only shooter has some of the best voice acting of any game in the last decade. The game itself is great too. Manages to strike a perfect balance - much more realistic movement, weapon handling, and weapon behavior (damage, penetration, etc) than arcadey stuff like Call of Duty or Battlefield, but also far less tedious and inaccessible than autist milsims like ARMA.
If only armor wasn't completely fucking pointless, it'd be perfect. Every major western nation issues ceramic armor for a reason; they work at preventing many small arms from outright incapacitating a trooper. Insurgency 2014 did a much better job at reflecting modern body armor capabilities. Sandstorm basically just has it as being a flak jacket.
@@MrSourceMan If you haven't played it in a while, I think a recent patch made armor much more capable. Hitting people center mass with 5.56 or 7.62x39 feels far less effective recently, and now it feels like there's definitely an advantage in moving up to real fuckin NATO.
@@BigIronEnjoyer Hmm. I've been burned by Sandstorm since I did the Beta, so I'll just take your word for it. Too many games to get involved with it again. Plus, I've been enjoying Squad since picking it up.
It's both a shout of humility and defiance. Humility because you may catch a bullet at any time from any idiot, but defiance because you haven't yet because they suck at their job.
I can't actually explain the respect i have for this guy, HistoryFeels you're a true artist and i bet ur gonna be succesfull, it's all about time bro. Keet it up. Edit: 07.07.2022 Thank you guys for the likes i couldn't imagine to get all of this. Have a nice day everyone
@@StevenTheAristolianNerd Fucking look up the disparity between his initial after action report and his book. He reported 30 insurgents on debriefing, in his book 300. He was recovered with all of his magazines full, meaning that he expended at most 30 rounds in the battle and makes his description of a drawn out fight false, there is recorded radio chatter with his teammates calling for his help when they were shot with no answer, and the Afghan who sheltered him said that their village could hear the gunfight and it was over very very quickly. He's a self-serving liar and most likely a coward to boot.
This singlehandedly might be my favorite song edit of this kind there is. I can not begin to explain the pure adrenaline, rage, yet determination and drive listening to this pumped into my system. Sandstorm's voice acting was always super good, but this really amplified just how GOOD it is. 10/10 job man!
Nothing like being the last one alive on outpost or survival, having a tough fight, surrounded with enemies yelling how they’re going to kill you, but managing to win and respawn the team. Still can’t believe I bought the game hoping to have a stopgap shooter until BF got good again, then thinking how it reminded me in ways of stuff like the old school rainbow 6 games, and now knowing I’ll be looking back on it a decade from now like I do those old games because it’s a true experience of its own. Intense and immersive af, and some of the best gun play of any game I’ve played.
@@SAOrules A couple of months late, but, Insurgency Sandstorm! It's where most of the voice acting in this edit plus some of the gunshots/reload sound fx came from. It's defo wortj checking out. :)
These videos are just great! The music mixing and the level of detail on wojak art is crazy good! It all elevated the emotion of the voice lines. No idea how you do it, but good work!
I went to school with one of these Navy Seals’ cousins. First time I heard the story was in class on a presentation on “Who is Your Hero” really fucking hit home. Now there’s a movie about it. Doesn’t capture the emotion the cousin (who will remain unnamed) told it with.
This is my deployment song from OEF '12. Borderlands 2 has dropped and short change hero was the trailer song. I had it loaded up on some crappy knock off mp3. Flying into a valley in North West Afghanistan on a blackhawk, the base we were going to land at started taking fire in the middle of the night so... Here I am doing orbits, watching the Tracers go off in this valley with the lyrics "This ain't no place for no hero, go home" thumping in my right ear. . . I'll never forget that night even 10 years later. . .
My uncle was childhood friends with the Chinook pilot that went down during the operation. He volunteered to go on the mission when the original pilot was unable.
When a four minute video makes you rebound from a horrid day, reminding you that even your worse days weren't as bad as days our military force have faced. Thank you for the rally I needed to finish the week. (SIDENOTE: I appreciate what you're doing, capturing historical events and creating art with them. You remind me of a very animated History teacher I had in Highschool. Never really appreciated history till I met him. Keep up the grind.)
Amazing once again! Ik you’ve already done a Falklands one, but since this year marks the 40th anniversary, I think something like ‘eye of the tiger while HMS Ardent sinks’ would be really cool.
I've watched this probably 20 times and am only now noticing the helicopter going down behind him at 2:45 Details like that show dedication , even if only a few people will ever notice
I remember seeing an interview of Luttrell where the interviewer asked a question that insinuated his team and those sent to rescue him died in vain. If looks could kill Luttrell would have absolutely murdered that interviewer.
Well it could kind of been avoided since 2nd battalion 3rd marines were planning on going and had mountain combat experience in that area but seals were sent instead. The taliban leader also was responsible for alot of marine deaths there. Plus the marines said the radios they brought wouldn’t work in that area and not to drop to close like they did.
But I’m not saying its any of the seals fault the people in charge should have known how bad it could be a village filled with taliban and being so close marines would have been a smarter choice or at least to be close by for support
@@ComandanteTresLetrasJGL They also inserted in via helicopter instead of rucking like the Marines planned. Then become surprised when the insurgents heard them coming.
The masculine urge to go out in a blaze of glory, against all odds and with no ammo, you grin at the enemy to let them know "I died with pride in my heart and a fire in my eyes!"
"Too Old to Die Young Now" but you've been abandoned on a hilltop in Afghanistan and literally awaken from the dead just to protect your buddies in helicopters while being blown up and shot multiple times before finally taking one through the heart. (TSgt John Chapman)
I was playing sandstorm and the whole time I was playing I was thinking of this video and the whole experience you get from the game is the same thing you get from this video
Saying stupid one liners is a staple if skirmishes during my deployment. We would be talking to a village elder and next thing we where getting shot at. I remember being on patrol and taking fire, our gunner yells "who wants to play hot potato" then just unloads 4 rounds out of a Mk19. Wild times. Somehow made it through all that just to waste the rest of my life on youtube and Destiny 2
Everyone knows 'Lone Survivor' by Marcus Lutrell; wether it be the book or the movie. But I think it's worth recommending another book by him called 'Service: A Navy Seal At War' it does include further detail about operation Red Wings. But it also contains many recollections of service men and women and their heroic sacrifice. Also it's a nice detail that you included radios for the chopper going down. It was part of the QRF composed of two MH-47 Chinooks. 8 members of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment: Night Stalkers; as well as 8 members of Seal Team were all KIA when an RPG hit the chopper. May God rest their souls.
He's not cut off behind enemy lines. He is the enemy line.
He's not cut off behind enemy lines, the enemy lines are cut off behind him.
@@dortywings7217 man it's a joke.
nice pfp
@@dortywings7217 the movie was very much not a propaganda piece
@@dortywings7217 The movie tells the story actually very accurately, despite being surrounded the four seals killed quite a few.
Best estimates put them at having taken down 35 insurgents to their four, if you don't count the chopper which was shot down and killed everyone on board, these men didn't even get a chance.
They also didn't screw up their mission, well I guess they did by not killing a group of civilian goat herders that spotted them. They instead spared them and those Afghans tipped off the insurgents.
Lone Survivor while not entirely accurate never portrays any of the Seals as super amazing badasses who can stop anyone, the movie is about one man losing his best friends in a horrific ambush and then being tasked to survive alone.
But more importantly this a fucking meme, if you're upset go somewhere else and leave Wojak to his work.
"I'm still alive you fucking amateurs" Has got to be one of the ballsiest things to shout when you're surrounded and under heavy fire.
The masculine urge to taunt your enemy, take them all on single handedly, survive, and honor your fallen comrades
@@techypriest7523 being a terrorist isnt a masculine urge
It's such a badass line.
literally me!
Its a voice line from the game Insurgency Sandstorm.
"I AM STILL ALIVE YOU FUCKING AMATEURS!!" Best line
im not stuck with you your stuck with me type vibes
Insurgency Sandstorm voicelines are great :)
Almost (if not all) all of these voicelines are from it.
Cod lobbys in 2010
Literally the most brass balled thing you could say while outnumbered, IMO.
100%!
you can’t have PTSD if you are the traumatic event
Actually, tons of PTSD cases are because of that. It's referred to as 'moral injury'.
read it again lmao@@GibbousTT
"You can't traumatize the traumatizer!"
So like Adrian Carton de Wiart. He gobbled down that PTSD and asked for seconds.
@@droktokush5232 ?
The masculine urge to survive and tell the story of your fallen comrades
The masculine urge to continue your mission after a soft compromise.
The masculine urge to make sure your comrades won‘t be fallen comrades and survive.
The masculine urge to form the new Soviet Union and give Afghanistan another go comrade
@@alexeddie1145 That‘s not a masculine urge.
@@alexeddie1145 not even related to my comment or the video go larp somewhere else please
The Insurgency voice lines are on point! Love the work you do!
Glad you like them!
@@HistoryFeels INSURGENCY ! I knew i did eard the lines somewheres.
Thanks you Chris.
HistoryFeels, you are doing an amazing job.
@@HistoryFeels wait you did the voices too??? I thought it was from a movie or something!!! damn thats skill. this song is helping me get through a brutal hospital stay haha
@@livewellwitheds6885 No, that's the lines from the video game Insurgency :Sandstorm.
Good game.
@@HistoryFeels You should do Dream A Little Dream of Me, but You’re in the Trenches of WWI.
The recovery operation was equally dramatic. The 75th ranger regiment spent 4 days hiking up and down the mountains looking for the bodies of those SEALs or a survivor. The tripped stumbled and fell all over those slopes until marines came in to assist. Then they spent 10 more days taking shifts from a patrol base to continue searching. For the remaining 3 SEALs.
That’s hard as fuck, committed to complete the mission no matter the cost.
No man gets left behind
Seal Team Six, Ranger's and Marines Humped through KUNAR.
We had a SOF team tell us to get fucked when they came in to do an OP in the Korngal. Those mountains will fuck your shit up. Add being shot at with AK's, SPG-9's and Dshk's. . . . . . I would rather go back to that then deal with the bullshit going on in America right now, Shit was simple just "Don't die".
Compare that to the Russians leaving their own to rot in trenches out in Ukriane.
@History Aesthetics that's so cool having an airborne ranger as a babysitter.
The Marines of 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, who had planned OP RED WINGS, were going after a relatively low level target named Ahmed Shaw, as their previous operations, and the unit they'd replaced, had nabbed all the known high and medium value targets successfully.
Unfortunately, they were not part of a Marine Air Ground Task Force, and didn't possess organic lift assets needed to conduct it. So they asked for helo support from 160th SOAR (the famed Night Stalkers) who were assigned to Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan (CJSOTF-A). The region SOTF command was run by SEALs who only agreed as long as they were to run the recon, and act as the main effort assault element to conduct the air assault raid against the target buildings thought to house the HVTs, while the rest of the Marine infantry company tasked with supporting missions, specifically the outer cordon. Because they had no options, and they wanted the mission to go ahead to nab the bad guy, the Marines agreed. This is not uncommon, its actually the norm. SOCOM are often on the lookout for good missions and they often get them from "poaching" intel or fully developed ops from conventional units.
Per the planning of Red Wings, the recon element was was going to be inserting the day before on the high ground nearby to three named areas of interest (NAI) that were supposed to be under observation to spot the targets. They were supposed to not only confirm the presence of Shaw, but also provide additional intel. 2/3 had planned to conduct the recon using a Scout Sniper six man team, headed by a very experienced team leader. They had worked in that area often before, knew the relative ground, knew the limitations of radios, etc. Their plan was to get helo lifted miles away from the objective, land, then infiltrate by foot.
When the SEALs poached the recon mission, the new recon element was a four man team who had never worked recon in Afghanistan before, weren't trained in recon, only one individual ever having deployed to a combat zone before. They ignored advice to bring more powerful radios, as the Marines knew from experience that the one the SEALs brought couldn't push out far enough, it didn't have enough power. Additionally, the SEAL recon team didn't have a Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency (PACE) plan for comms, only having the weak MBITR and a sat phone as backup. Neither were adequate, and they were warned.
More so, their plan was significantly flawed. Not wanting to spent the time and energy walking to the objective, they decided to get helo inserted a few hundred meters away. They attempted to mitigate the risk of landing near directly on the Observation Point (OP) by having numerous false insertions done all over the valley area over the previous week, to keep the locals guessing, which only ended up tipping them off that an operation was in the works. But in recon, its an outright sin to ever airlift onto the OP. Every measure must be taken to keep it hidden, to keep the presence of the recon team hidden.
After they fast roped down on the landing zone, per norm, the fast ropes were disconnected from the helicopter, but the SEAL recon team did not hide them, they left them in the open. Locals, sent out when they'd heard the choppers, found them pretty quickly, and using their own comms, reported it back. At that time the SEAL team had made it to the high ground and beyond, were trying to find a good OP to overwatch the NAIs, which proved difficult as the position they initially chose at night proved poor when light came at dawn. After daybreak they moved OPs.
[Map of area and NAI and OPs](qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-edab31a62fcaf190fd909e25ba9413e6.webp)
The locals, knowing ISAF rules of engagement, sent up some unarmed individuals, with radios, with some sheep, into the hills to scout them out. This is a common TTP in COIN ops to find snipers and recon element hide sites. In Iraq, they'd sent kids or unarmed adults to check on certain buildings, knowing we wouldn't kill them if we found them. If they found us, they'd report back. It worked during Red Wings. The SEAL recon team was spotted. Compromised, they detained the sheepherders.
At that point the operation was blown. They have just been soft compromised, though without knowing it they'd also been hard compromised as those herders were part of a deliberate counter-recon element so Shaw and the enemy fighters in the village knew they'd been caught when they didn't report back. But because the SEAL recon team never established a formal plan for being compromised they had to make the decision on the spot of what to do. Instead of executing the actions of a pre-made drill for compromise, (depending on the story version) they got into a debate about what to do and even possibly held a vote. Confusion was also on what to do with the detainees. AT NO TIME WAS KILLING THEM ACTUALLY A LEGAL OPTION. Or realistic. The easiest thing to do would have been to gag them and flex cuff them to a tree. Instead they let them go (where they instantly ran off to warn everyone), while the SEALs picked up and moved, but not far.
So after being compromised, the SEALs moved to high ground to make the call on their radio to alert the command element what had happened. Note, they didn't vacate the area, they moved maybe a hundred meters away from where they'd been spotted. Meanwhile, their comms weren't working, so the radio traffic was broken taking far longer than it should have without any real benefit of transmitting information.
Meanwhile, the local enemy, realistically numbering about 12 fighters, having been briefed by the returning herders on the location of the SEALs, their size, their weapons, created a plan, climbed the hills to reach a position where they could ambush the infidels on their way back up to the high ground which was on the way back to the LZ (which they sent RPG gunners to overwatch in case a helicopter showed up).
Finally, the SEAL recon team moving back toward the high ground through a draw (the NE Gulch), but got ambushed at relatively close range by roughly a squad sized element in strength, with machine guns. Possibly RPG and mortar, though in the video the insurgents made I never saw evidence of explosive weaponry.
[Map of ambush, blue arrow is SEAL retreat](www.darack.com/sawtalosar/ambush-graphic.php)
The fight was brief, and the SEALs that weren't hit immediately tried to break contact downhill. Luttrell effectively fell down the mountain, while the patrol leader, Mike Murphy, made a call on the sat phone before dying. The other two died during this time too. They didn't kill any of the locals, it was an entirely one sided fight.
The Quick Reaction Force 10 SEALs in a 160th SOAR Chinook, escorted by two Apaches. The SEAL mission commander aboard the Chinook ordered the pilots to reach the LZ ASAP, and because the Chinook flies faster than the Apaches they arrived first. Because the Apaches weren't present, despite them having the thermal optics that would have been able to visually clear the landing zone, and the weaponry to physically clear it, the Chinook flared and started its landing, in broad daylight, under the observation of RPG gunner stationed there, and was targeted and hit, crashing, killing all onboard.
[Map of area of operations, with original RT insertion LZ and QRF LZ/Shootdown pos marked](www.darack.com/sawtalosar/sawtalo-oblique-west.php)
Another SOCOM QRF element, of primarily Rangers, were sent in the next day, they landed elsewhere and walked in, they are the ones who found Luttrell, who had been rescued by a villager in a local village, who apparently still had all his mags, loaded. They also recovered the bodies and secured the helicopter crash site.
Besides recovering all weapons and equipment belonging to the SEALs, and having video footage of the fight, the local leader and target of the raid, Ahmed Shaw, also got a computer they'd brought that once broken into possessed the schematics of the US embassy in Kabul, as well as other sensitive information. He took that intel, and the videos, and cobbled together an effective propaganda video that earned him major credibility, which led to increased funding, recruitment, etc., causing him to turn into a legitimate High Value Target.
[For more info](www.darack.com/sawtalosar/)
Damn man that's almost an essay, thank you for sharing
Read it all that's a right to do point essai.
Unstable equilibrium in action.
I’ve never had a physical and vocal reaction to something before. What a fucking shit show
So, they were lazy, and got their asses handed to them
When he said "Right, here we go" as bullets started flying, I felt that.
Oh yeah, that was one hundred percent the mask of the soldier coming down. At the beginning, he's a frightened man, cornered and alone. When the bullets start coming in, he knows he doesn't have the time to be scared, so he psychs himself up.
That's also really well captured in the shit he yells at the enemy. He's building himself up as much as he can so he can keep running on adrenaline.
"We all have our crosses to bear. We carry them heavily, out of love for our brothers in arms. But sometimes you have to let go of the idea that anyone down here is in control."
Marcus Luttrell (Survivor of Op Red Wings)
He sure wasn't when he ran from an ambush and left the other 3 to die. He was found will all 11 of his magazines on him. They were all loaded.
Well, if he survived in this way, he surely wasn’t a hero but he made the right choiche
@@ShortArmOfGod a sig rune named random complaing about the bravery of a navy seal. rolf fucking lmao
@@ShortArmOfGod He didn't leave them to die, he was just the only one to not get popped. It was an entirely one sided fight, they fucked up, left clues and got spotted by the locals. Taliban set up an ambush. The fight lasted under a minute, the SEALs got dropped instantly, Lutrell managed to run and jump off a cliff.
There's a lot of bullshit surrounding this mission, how the SEALs fought off like 200 Taliban or whatever, but it wasn't Lutrell's fault they got killed. He got lucky and escaped.
Allah is the one true God.
As an Army Aviation vet, the very word "RPG" being screamed sends chills through my spine every time I hear it. No matter how many times I hear this.
Thank you for your service. I would like to ask, why are RPG’s considered so deadly to aircraft? I thought they weren’t controlled/only go in a straight line. Or, are there RPGs that actually target moving targets?
@@IloveCanada-ql5vtI'm no Army aviator or any kind of military pilot so I may not be the best guy to answer this, but this is what I do know.
RPG's (Rocket Propelled Grenades) are every pilots worst nightmare. This ESPECIALLY goes for helicopter pilots. These shoulder fired missiles are equipped with some nasty powerful explosive charges that can tear through metal like wet toilet paper. Helicopters are generally by aircraft standards pretty lightweight so they can fly. And in order to fly, they still require metal structure and plating to sheild the inner workings and mechanical and electrical components needed to fly. But that same metal needs to be sparse enough as not to be weighed down by its armor. Oftentimes the metal plating is about 5mm thick. Enough to stop bullets (usually referred to as "small arms fire") from a fair distance away; like say from about 2000 meters from the ground. Which is pretty common flight height for combat aviation. Part of a helicopters engineering more often than not requires the use of a tail rotor. This rotor acts as a counterbalance to keep the centrifugal energy of the main rotor on top from causing the helicopter from spinning out. So now imagine something that can easily reach and just as easily destroy such a component and force said helicopter to start spinning out of control and slamming into the hard ground or water at about 80 mph. There's a reason why hearing about someone surviving a plane or helicopter crash is considered to be so miraculous. And to answer the other part of your question, yes, there are a number of these types of RPG weapon systems outfitted with guidance systems allowing that rocket to track a target and hit with pinpoint accuracy. In fact, there are several of these weapon systems that were specifically DESIGNED to take out aircraft. The missiles fly farther, faster and hit generally even harder but lack penetrative power to punch through thicker armor. That's why there are missiles that are just as effective against ground targets meant to punch through thicker armor. Granted most "RPG's" you hear and see are viewed as the aptly named RPG-7v2's which are russian made mass produced and are just as DEVASTATING. Those things pack a MEAN punch and are still used by insurgents today. They also are reloadable and can be loaded with different types of munitions. Cluster, incendiary armor piercing (AP for short) though these munitions are sorta rare and difficult to get ahold of. Most of the time they're loaded with High Explosive Anti Tank (or HEAT for short) However, these weapons lack a guidance system and rely on fins near the thruster to guide it to target and require a line of sight. So they do require a fair amount of skill to be effective and can even then still misfire or get blown off course by wind and other factors. The point is, if you hear "RPG!" when you're flying, you'd be shitting bricks like this fine gentleman above me. So to quote a game I played a while ago "Old rocket arty, inaccurate but fuck will it ruin your day if they get it right."
For a more up close understanding of why helicopters and RPG's don't mix, I'd HIGHLY RECOMMEND you watch the movie Blackhawk down" directed by Ridley Scott. It's an incredible film
To the dude who originally posted this comment, you have my respect and I thank you for your service even though you're probably sick of hearing it. Still though, Respect brother.
&lloveCanada-ql5vt RPG = Rocket Propelled Grenade. They can be made a few different ways, either air burst to explode on a timer or AT that almost burrow into armor and explode shrapel through the hole that's why APCs & tanks are not fans of RPGs. Missiles & RPGs are different. To my knowledge RPGs cannot be guided.
@@TM2TL I see, thank you very much.
@@IloveCanada-ql5vtBecause helicopters can't evade quickly, especially if they are hovering and touching down to pick someone up. Look up the scene from Blackhawk down
Short Change Hero used to make me think about Borderlands, but now it'll always remind me of this.
strike back used it 1st
I always thought of Batman Arkham City haha. It was in one of the trailers I watched as a kid
"You all better not be dead"- the last surviver rip
Marcus Lutterel is still alive till this day with his fellow savior Gulab
I heard that insurgency sandstorm voice line from my teammate when he sacrificed himself and blew himself up
Reading the back story on this whole thing really tells you a lot about how extreme overconfidence and underestimation can get a bunch of otherwise extremely skilled people killed.
It also shows how you need to look at your fuck ups, acknowledge, and learn about them, not bury them.
And it tells us that if you run away from a firfight with all your 11 magazines full, leave your wounded comrades screaming for you, their combat medic to save them, and then intimidate the afghans that save you into not speaking up about the truth, you can sell a whole lot of books and then Mark Walberg will play you in a film that's not acurate.
Not saying Luttrel is not a hero, but based on the events of Red Wings alone, he is far from one. The guys on the Chinook, on the other hand, are. They risked and lost it all after trying to save their comrades from a fucked up situation.
@@Jager_sog9 Agreed. Got all of his friends killed, the entire QRF, all because his team's ego kept them from listening to all the intel they were given, taking the mission from the dedicated team, and then planning it all horribly.
@@Jager_sog9 There's a lot of bullshit surrounding Red Wings but the idea that it was Lutrell's fault they got massacred is retarded. No one screamed for shit. They all got ripped apart in the first 20 seconds of the "firefight". The Taliban set up an ambush because they were careless, left clues and got spotted by the locals. The SEALs never stood a chance.
Lutrell was just lucky, managed to sprint and jump off a cliff.
Every time I see someone say something about Operation Red Wings I hear something new or different and I have no idea what to think anymore
@@Real_Mick3y6 This is pretty much the agreed upon story with backing from SEALs, marines, etc about the mission.
Lutrell's squads planning was idiotic, they weren't properly manned or equipped for the mission they were undertaken nor had properly trained. They threw out everything they had been taught and ended up getting themselves and their friends killed. While he embellished the story quite a bit, its still a very painful memory considering how small those communities are and how a lot of people knew those men that died in the chinook
Short Change Hero perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being the last line of defense deep behind enemy lines.
Amazing, I can mentally visualize this entire interaction and it’s phenomenal. Thanks again for the great content
Exactly
Bloody great movie as well...
Look John Chapman if you actually want to see what happened
How did u comment 7 days when this came out Friday???????
@@maxman126 HOWW
1:24 the way he says it and the beat hits gave me fucking goosebumps. Reminds me of the pure feeling of " I did not come this far to die now" 10/10 man thank you for this wonderful Video
Also the like 20 seconds of no voice lines and heavy fire before make it an amazing drop.
Anybody know where this voice line comes from?
@@manamesjeeeff1017 Insurgency Sandstorm
*pant, pant* “I did NOT…come this far…to die now…” -Nick from l4d2
1:23 At least get the timestamp right smh.
"The most dangerous creation of any society is a man with nothing to lose."
-James Baldwin
When the audio tells a story, the music resonates with you. The context, the voices, the desperation, its awesome. Never stop doing what you do. You absolutely kill at this man!
No I think this heartbreaking, glorifying an illegal invasion. US soldiers are in Hell and that comforts me tho
@@cuhgaming4943 bruh wtf
@@cuhgaming4943 "Does doing the right thing for the wrong reasons make you a bad person?"
@@cuhgaming4943 yeah okay
Allah is the one true God. And he has liberated Afghanistan from these invaders.
As veteran of the Afghanistan war, I really appreciate this work.
2009-2010 RIP PO2 Mcneley and PO2 Newlove
I feel sorry you went to war, that you never won.
@@azrofmahmud4969 There were many victories. The biggest victory was giving an entire generation of women an education.
@@EdwardHood bet you hear it a lot but well damn deserved , thanks for your service , my hero
@@EdwardHood thank you for providing that future for them
@@EdwardHood
Well that’s something I guess. Better than nothing.
Down under by the men at work but you're an Australian soldier tasked with hunting down emus.
Don't know how it would sound but it be amazing
That "Here we go" was epic
When Insurgency hits you with the "Last man standing"
Holy shit just 10 seconds in and I’m already loving this video, the animation, the wojak, and the music. I can tell the audio is sourced from something like a video-game and I find the retorts a bit comical and fitting at the same time, your content keeps getting better lad, here’s to another good one🍉!
Voice is from Insurgency Sandstorm.
@@_Maroi I love that game
The background firefight and chatter is from a movie called Lone Survivor, movie about this exact operation. Pretty sad but amazing movie. With additional sounds from Insurgency Sandstorm
"Try me muthafucka"
The spec ops dude from sandstorm's voice actor is a legend, these lines never get old
Copperhead Road but you’re a DEA agent hunting moonshiners in Tennessee.
Fuck the DEA
And fuck the ATF AND IRS
yes
oh God please
Or flipside. Copperhead road but you are a moonshiner outrunning the dea in Tennessee
guy doesn't deserve a medal of honor, he deserves his team back
20 Operators went in, 20 returned. . . 19 in body bags. . . Fly high gentlemen 🕊️
"should I stay or should I go" but you're a British soldier being ambushed in Londonderry
"Run trough the jungle" but you're running to the evac site
"La victoire est a nous" but the Prussian have arrived at Waterloo
all these are good ideas but I think the 2nd one is my favorite
Derry
"for the brazilian german is soup" but you are a Brazilian soldier of the FEB attacking Monte Castelo 🐍
(Pro brasileiro alemão é sopa 🎼)
*Derry
Derry*
The insurgency voicelines in this were a welcome surprise. Good job on this one
Insurgency Sandstorm deserves more love. Crazy how a mid-budget multiplayer-only shooter has some of the best voice acting of any game in the last decade.
The game itself is great too. Manages to strike a perfect balance - much more realistic movement, weapon handling, and weapon behavior (damage, penetration, etc) than arcadey stuff like Call of Duty or Battlefield, but also far less tedious and inaccessible than autist milsims like ARMA.
Tarkov Voicelines are really dope too, especially the Russian BEAR, and Scav voicelines.
Battlefield 3 and 4 have some pretty good lines like if you play 4 on lockdown you’ll here like the chaos of the soldiers yelling out loud.
If only armor wasn't completely fucking pointless, it'd be perfect.
Every major western nation issues ceramic armor for a reason; they work at preventing many small arms from outright incapacitating a trooper. Insurgency 2014 did a much better job at reflecting modern body armor capabilities. Sandstorm basically just has it as being a flak jacket.
@@MrSourceMan If you haven't played it in a while, I think a recent patch made armor much more capable. Hitting people center mass with 5.56 or 7.62x39 feels far less effective recently, and now it feels like there's definitely an advantage in moving up to real fuckin NATO.
@@BigIronEnjoyer Hmm.
I've been burned by Sandstorm since I did the Beta, so I'll just take your word for it.
Too many games to get involved with it again. Plus, I've been enjoying Squad since picking it up.
Man the insurgency sandstorm voice lines for security is one of the best voice acting in gaming in a long time
Bringing a whole new meaning to "You're the last one alive complete the mission!"
"im still alive you f**king amateurs" i felt that one. may use in a serious combat situation one day.
Agreed
Kill as many you can and don’t bother with remorse, if you can help it that is
Yup that's the dream
Bruh
It's both a shout of humility and defiance. Humility because you may catch a bullet at any time from any idiot, but defiance because you haven't yet because they suck at their job.
I can't actually explain the respect i have for this guy, HistoryFeels you're a true artist and i bet ur gonna be succesfull, it's all about time bro. Keet it up.
Edit: 07.07.2022
Thank you guys for the likes i couldn't imagine to get all of this. Have a nice day everyone
Thanks my FBI attached agent lol
He's a compulsive liar, everything you've probably heard about his story is total fiction.
@@dakotaadams189 maybe but it still makes for a cool video
@@dakotaadams189 What the fuck are you talking about
@@StevenTheAristolianNerd Fucking look up the disparity between his initial after action report and his book. He reported 30 insurgents on debriefing, in his book 300. He was recovered with all of his magazines full, meaning that he expended at most 30 rounds in the battle and makes his description of a drawn out fight false, there is recorded radio chatter with his teammates calling for his help when they were shot with no answer, and the Afghan who sheltered him said that their village could hear the gunfight and it was over very very quickly. He's a self-serving liar and most likely a coward to boot.
This singlehandedly might be my favorite song edit of this kind there is. I can not begin to explain the pure adrenaline, rage, yet determination and drive listening to this pumped into my system.
Sandstorm's voice acting was always super good, but this really amplified just how GOOD it is. 10/10 job man!
Nothing like being the last one alive on outpost or survival, having a tough fight, surrounded with enemies yelling how they’re going to kill you, but managing to win and respawn the team. Still can’t believe I bought the game hoping to have a stopgap shooter until BF got good again, then thinking how it reminded me in ways of stuff like the old school rainbow 6 games, and now knowing I’ll be looking back on it a decade from now like I do those old games because it’s a true experience of its own. Intense and immersive af, and some of the best gun play of any game I’ve played.
Sandstorm? Fill me in on the reference please!
@@SAOrules insurgency sandstorm
@@SAOrules A couple of months late, but, Insurgency Sandstorm! It's where most of the voice acting in this edit plus some of the gunshots/reload sound fx came from. It's defo wortj checking out. :)
Insurgency absolutely has the best voice lines. Glad you utilize them so perfectly.
These videos are just great! The music mixing and the level of detail on wojak art is crazy good! It all elevated the emotion of the voice lines. No idea how you do it, but good work!
Thank you very much!
I went to school with one of these Navy Seals’ cousins. First time I heard the story was in class on a presentation on “Who is Your Hero” really fucking hit home. Now there’s a movie about it. Doesn’t capture the emotion the cousin (who will remain unnamed) told it with.
This is my deployment song from OEF '12. Borderlands 2 has dropped and short change hero was the trailer song. I had it loaded up on some crappy knock off mp3. Flying into a valley in North West Afghanistan on a blackhawk, the base we were going to land at started taking fire in the middle of the night so... Here I am doing orbits, watching the Tracers go off in this valley with the lyrics "This ain't no place for no hero, go home" thumping in my right ear. . . I'll never forget that night even 10 years later. . .
Holy shit man, that level of details in your wojak is just amazing.
0:26 this cannot be more perfectly timed
My uncle was childhood friends with the Chinook pilot that went down during the operation. He volunteered to go on the mission when the original pilot was unable.
I absolutely love your videos. I know this mixing takes WAY more time than people would think. At the gym right now and this is a pump for sure
Thanks man I appreciate that, bless you and your gains
I recognize those insurgency voice lines. Happens all the time when my teammates all die!
When a four minute video makes you rebound from a horrid day, reminding you that even your worse days weren't as bad as days our military force have faced.
Thank you for the rally I needed to finish the week.
(SIDENOTE: I appreciate what you're doing, capturing historical events and creating art with them. You remind me of a very animated History teacher I had in Highschool. Never really appreciated history till I met him.
Keep up the grind.)
This man refused to die
Amazing once again!
Ik you’ve already done a Falklands one, but since this year marks the 40th anniversary, I think something like ‘eye of the tiger while HMS Ardent sinks’ would be really cool.
Or the battle of goose green with 105 arty
@@adamallen1097 last one was 80s for the battle of goose greene lol
Hey britbong, argie here.
Wanna pop pop for the good old times?
"I'm still alive you fucking amateurs" followed by rapid gunfire is great
That's the MOST detailed military wojak art I've ever seen
I'm 101% sure this banger uses vocal prompts from Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Run through the jungle but you've lost contact with your platoon and the Vietcong are hot on your trail
Shocking blue - send me a postcard (1968)
I love the videos. I always recognize where the voice lines come from. Tarkov and Insurgency have such fitting voice lines for these videos.
This kind of content appeals to a very specific niche and I love it. It's like a radio play.
Wild they found him without a single bullet missing in his load out
Yep the redpill on this opération is hard fck
Marine veteran here. This Video makes me feel some type of way. I like it. Thank you friend
I've watched this probably 20 times and am only now noticing the helicopter going down behind him at 2:45
Details like that show dedication , even if only a few people will ever notice
First person to see it I think!
What! I didn’t even see it lol!
the panic in the helo pilot's voice was on-spot
When you’re the last one alive on your dodgeball team
My god, this is an art. My respect goes to the army served in the OP Red Wings and condolences go to the fallen soldier's family's and close ones.
The wojak nametag is just another example of how much detail and work you put into these... Great stuff as always, keep doing what you're doing...
This video actually gave me chills!
The shit this man had to go through plus also being outnumbered by seemingly endless solider waves most people would just give up
Love the insurgency sandstorm callouts. Favorite has to be "I am still alive you fucking amateurs"
I remember seeing an interview of Luttrell where the interviewer asked a question that insinuated his team and those sent to rescue him died in vain. If looks could kill Luttrell would have absolutely murdered that interviewer.
Well it could kind of been avoided since 2nd battalion 3rd marines were planning on going and had mountain combat experience in that area but seals were sent instead. The taliban leader also was responsible for alot of marine deaths there. Plus the marines said the radios they brought wouldn’t work in that area and not to drop to close like they did.
But I’m not saying its any of the seals fault the people in charge should have known how bad it could be a village filled with taliban and being so close marines would have been a smarter choice or at least to be close by for support
@@ComandanteTresLetrasJGL They also inserted in via helicopter instead of rucking like the Marines planned. Then become surprised when the insurgents heard them coming.
He wanted to kill an unarmed interviewer but couldnt even kill the taliban who the GI joe seals outnumbered 20 to 8 😂
Did they not?
How it feels when all your teammates are respawning and it's just you.
War is hell. The lone survivor is the only guy who lived from both sides in the end.
The masculine urge to go out in a blaze of glory, against all odds and with no ammo, you grin at the enemy to let them know "I died with pride in my heart and a fire in my eyes!"
"Too Old to Die Young Now" but you've been abandoned on a hilltop in Afghanistan and literally awaken from the dead just to protect your buddies in helicopters while being blown up and shot multiple times before finally taking one through the heart. (TSgt John Chapman)
RIP John Chapman.
The lone Survivor
No lie these are so thematic I've begun using them as flashbacks for fight scenes in my modern dnd campaign
Awesome!
Every week I’m like “eh looks skippable” and then I’m blown away by the editing and music and everything.
I really do appreciate the Insurgency spec ops voice in here. It's perfect XD
The masculine urge to take as many as you can with you to the grave
Mahky-Mahk having a little funny moment in the mountains
Also I noticed your perfect beat drops and visual cues
Very nice
I was playing sandstorm and the whole time I was playing I was thinking of this video and the whole experience you get from the game is the same thing you get from this video
This man is under heavy fire NAH HE IS THE HEAVY FIRE
Between this and the Ambushing a Fed Convoy got a tear running down my cheek
this embodies the spirit of every man alive i can visualize the whole video great job man keep it up!
This has been on loop for 4 hours.
I love it.
Saying stupid one liners is a staple if skirmishes during my deployment. We would be talking to a village elder and next thing we where getting shot at. I remember being on patrol and taking fire, our gunner yells "who wants to play hot potato" then just unloads 4 rounds out of a Mk19. Wild times. Somehow made it through all that just to waste the rest of my life on youtube and Destiny 2
Puto amo, literal un genio de seguro no fallas ningún tiro en el Destiny
Respect to another guardian and that is a fun way to describe grenade launchers
You fucking earned that shit man. If you enjoy it, then it's not a waste.
God bless you and your brothers. 🫡
I wasn't good enough to join ya.
This one gave me goosebumps man great video man keep it up
i felt like I was on the line fighting thank you i really relate to those songs and the hard work that you put effort into them ☺️
I love the insurgency sandstorm voices
POV: your doing a group project but the kids you’ve been partnered with aren’t helping at all.
Short Change Hero set to the sounds of Insurgency Sandstorm with a story of a lone survivor. definitely a mood
Marcus: “Hey Mikey, I’m about ready to punch that time card...”
Murph: “Do it”
-Lone Survivor (2013)
Respect to all the fallen souls on that operation, they got flanked in a ditch, and flanked thru enemy tunnels, but one managed to escape
Is it just me or is it getting better and easier to understand and visualize the videos great work as always
Thank you for making this, it makes me relaxed before sleeping :)
I just love this so much. Really takes me back to Afghanistan, but in a good way. Thanks for making this.
I love the insurgency voice lines
"Hearts of Oak" but you're on HMS Sovereign at Trafalgar and the rest of the squadron is still 15 minutes away.
Love your work dude!
Insurgency Sandstorm last man alive on a checkpoint audio. Still really well inserted. Fits the video really well ngl.
You gotta survive in order to tell their stories.
I love the lines in this it just puts the cherry of badassery on top of all this. I can’t explain in words how amazing this is.
Everyone knows 'Lone Survivor' by Marcus Lutrell; wether it be the book or the movie. But I think it's worth recommending another book by him called 'Service: A Navy Seal At War' it does include further detail about operation Red Wings. But it also contains many recollections of service men and women and their heroic sacrifice.
Also it's a nice detail that you included radios for the chopper going down. It was part of the QRF composed of two MH-47 Chinooks. 8 members of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment: Night Stalkers; as well as 8 members of Seal Team were all KIA when an RPG hit the chopper.
May God rest their souls.
that "Lets Go" at the start made it sound like he was about to freestyle on his enemies
"Operation Red Wings", red for the blood that was spilled, and pairs of wings for those who died to finally fly.
woah this is audio mixing is actually pretty dope, even tho I don't really care for the history I respect the effort