Lone Survivor

The Vikings did not have a game this weekend so I will not blog about them. I, mainly spent my entire Sunday reading Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. It is now probably one of, if not my favortie books. It's about this guy, Marcus, who wants to become a Navy SEAL. SEALs are a special force unit that go behind enemy lines to do the dirty work. They do things like get information on a Taliban village or even go kill a terrorist leader. Anyway, Marcus passes the SEAL training and goes to Afghanistan. In Afghanistan he is sent on a mission called operation Redwing with his fellow SEALs and good friends, Mike, Axe, and Danny. None of them had a good feeling about the mission. After hiding in the mountains for a while, spying on a known taliban hot spot, they got found by about 120 taliban soilders. The SEALs fought as hard as they could but they were just out numbered. After killing many taliban, Danny, Axe and Mikey die. Marcus is the only one left, but he is badly injured. He crawls around for awhile and finally gets found by friendly, native villagers. They take him, feed him, and fix his wounds. Eventually, the U.S. finds his location and comes in to save him. I like this book a lot because it tells you the first hand story of what went on behind enemy lines. It showed how brave those soilders were.