rough, very rough. pete burg who directed the movie let him after reading his book. he was shocked by his condition when he went to visit him in his house in texas. i went in there and it was almost like living in a shrine. nothing but pictures of his dead brothers and flags and helmets and momentums and pieces from his dead brothers and on the middle of the living room floor was basically the tombstone with the names of all of his brothers that died in that operation, and marcus would sit in that house in that in that moment, in that experience, in that gunfight. he was almost living inside of it when i first met him. reporter: marcus latrel suffered emotionally and physically but his family and friends say he s getting better. he has a service dog who never leaves his side and he got married. he and his wife melanie have two children.
refusing to sign an agreement with the white house over long-term troops in afghanistan. that s right there are now 42,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. they want to get this agreement for a number of troops, probably about 10 thousa,000 to remain a 2014. the job of the u.s. troops will be to train and assist afghan forces and do the very dangerous work of continuing to go after terrorist targets in afghanistan. he hasn t signed the agreement and the u.s. is getting increasingly frustrated with him, given especially the price that u.s. troops are paying. yeah, all right. barbara appreciate the update. thank you. more than 12 years long, this is america s longest war. another siring chapter. the story began when a four-man navy seal team found themselves badly out numbers in a long and vicious fire fight. one sale sueal survived. his name is marcus. this is his account of a mission that went wrong after he says his unit was surprised by of all
already lost danny, and i knew axle was dying. i didn t want to lose him. he started to crawl left. i was out in the open, waving my hands like come down to me, that s all i wanted him to do is come down to me, and i heard his gun go off, and a lot of gunfire in his area. i was trying with everything i had to get to him, and he he started screaming my name. he was like marcus, man, you got to help me, i need help marcus, it got so intense i actually put my weapon down and covered my ears because i couldn t stand to hear him die. all i wanted him to do is stop screaming my name, and they killed him. i and i put my weapon down in that gunfight while my best friend got killed so that makes me a coward. reporter: how can you say that? say what? reporter: why do you think that? what? reporter: putting your weapon
the fire fight marcus found himself fighting in the mountains of afghanistan. these are unremarkable men who do remarkable things. it s a warrior class spar rid and they are extremely talented individuals, and, you know, there is this story that s come to light because marcus survived, and marcus feels like he survived in order to tell the story. reporter: on june 28, 2005, petty officer marcus latrel wasn t sure he was going to survive. he was badly wounded and didn t conon was trying to rescue him. my back was broke. i had frag laying everywhere. i called into this rock embankment, took dirt and put it in my wounds so i wouldn t bleed to death. so you had no medical care? gone. compass? gone. i didn t have pants on. you had no pants? it was completely ripped off