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Okay. is on the air Marcus LaTrell is, I guess, 20 years after Operation Red Wings.

Of course, his diary would be published, and Lone Survivor would be a bestseller.

The movie would be made, and a nation was riveted.

We were at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I think that really humanized.

The two guys from that time that I grew to have such incredible respect for were Marcus Atrell and his peers, his Navy Ses and Chris Kyle. And I think the entire country was

absolutely, and still is, riveted by this story. So it has become a firefight. Tell me,

Marcus, what happens from there? Once that thing started, it was kind of a free for all.

They had us covered on three sides, so the only way we could go was down the mountain.

And then a couple hours into that, they had come up from the base of the mountain from the village.

So they had us in a 360-degree loot.

There wasn't really anywhere we could go, which means you had to keep moving the entire time.

The hardest thing to hit is a moving target.

But because of the terrain and the altitude,

just making the movement was tough enough.

By a couple hours into it,

everyone was so exhausted and shot up

that they just systematically pick us apart one by one

as we were going down the mountain.

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