nothing, not one word. just a look. just look at us. i know it sounds funny. there s a way somebody s going to look at you when you cut them off in traffic, mad at you or what not and a way someone s going to look at you when they want to kill you. when it happens to you you ll never forget it. two more herders showed up along with about 70 goats. the s.e.a.l.s mission was compromised. you hear the bells jingling, then they just come up over every side of it. goats. goats. danny dietz tried to call back to base for instructions but couldn t get through on their radio. the team had to decide on their own what to do with the goat herders. run through the option that you talked about. talked about zip tying them, zip tying the goats. zip tying them and taking them with us. zip tying the goats or just executing the goats. talked about zip tying and eliminating the threat. eliminating the threat, human threat. talked about killing them. yes. and then last one was turn t
and it hit him in the back of the head and killed him. danny dietz was the first s.e.a.l. to die. now it was just latrell, matt axel ton and mike murphy kept alive. i caught up with mikey. he asked me where danny was and i was like, he s dead. we tried to go get him. once you fell a certain distance you couldn t get back up the way you came. it was too steep. it just wasn t working. what happened then? ax walked off behind the rocky was firing on. i almost shot him. he sat down indian style against my left hip and leaned against my right leg. he goes, i m sorry, bro, i can t help you. i m blind. they shot me in the face. latrell says the s.e.a.l.s were surrounded. they hadn t gone through on the radio so he says lieutenant mike murphy decided to move to a completely exposed position so he could get a signal on his satellite phone and call for backup. mikey was out, had pushed out onto this boulder out in the middle of the draw. wide open, no cover, no nothing.
and i swung around on him. i had my finger on the trigger, tension on it, safety off, and he started walking at me. he was like okay, okay. and he lifted up his shirt to show me he didn t have a weapon. he was like okay okay okay. i lowered my weapon. and i pulled a grenade. and pulled the pin. i was saying, i ll kill all of us. you were prepared to blow yourself up along with everybody else? yes. i wasn t going to get taken. why do you think you didn t kill him? i can t tell you. i don t know why. luckily for latrell, mohammed gulab, who lived in a nearby village, was not a member of the taliban. he gave me water and rolled me over. he had seen where i d been shot. i was bleeding real bad. three other guys plus him picked me up and started carrying me down to the village. s.e.a.l. commanders didn t know what had happened to marcus latrell and his three teammates. petty officer danny dietz was dead.
left me laying there on the side of that waterfall and let me die but he didn t. for his braveries marcus latrell was awarded the navy cross in a white house ceremony. matt axelson and danny dietz were awarded it posthumously. for risking his life to make that telephone call, mike murphy was awarded the congressional medal of honor. ahmed shaw was killed in a separate operation in 2008. after retiring, vice admiral joe mk gier runs the special operations warrior foundation which provides support for veterans and their families. marcus latrell created and raises money for a similar group, the lone survivor foundation. he s also visited families of his fallen s.e.a.l. brothers. you travel around the country to do that? yes, sir. what was that like? that sucked. think about it like this.
petty officer danny dietz was dead, petty officer matt axelton had been gravely wounded and was separated from latrell. lieutenant mike murphy had been killed after making a satellite phone call for help. retired vice admiral joe mcguire told us how much he add myers murphy for making that call. they were in a life and death situation. he s been shot, matt s been shot, danny s been shot. he finished the call. at the end we said we could really use your help. we said help is on the way. mike finished the call with thank you. even though, i mean thank you. yeah. he went out there and gave above and beyond to do that. and he knew going out on that rock he probably wouldn t have come back. as a result of the call, two chinook helicopters like these with special operations forces on board raced to the mountainside where the four s.e.a.l.s had been fighting. the chinooks went in without the apache gun ships that usually provide cover. it was the pilots and the