Best kept secrets in or me.

They can do special missions in support of national directors that no other unit can do.

Ranger Creed is what you live by.

That's what you follow.

You lived on entire creek.

Every word in there is important.

Nobody wants to have to deal with a mass casualty combat search and rescue, where you know you're going into a situation where you know there's potentially no survivors.

But certain people are called to do certain things, and that's what we do.

The grim drama has been unfolding at 10,000 feet in the mountains of Afghanistan.

We can't report all the facts yet because American lives are still at stake.

Yeah, all right.

We finally get to the crash site.

Son was just about coming up on Cassie.

Fire still going on.

And the crash site is literally on the side of a steep ledge.

We secure the area and we started pulling a perimeter.

We hope that we when we came in, we would find alive crew members.

No, but we did it.

There was nothing left of the helicopter on.

This is a Chinook.

It's It's a big helicopter and the only thing that resembled a helicopter with some rotor blades.

You know, there was nothing left, man.

It's It's one of those sites that you don't ever want to see.

And once you see it, if you ever have to see it, you'll it will never forget it.

A lot of the bodies were really mangled.

There was bodies that weren't even bodies, you know, they were just ashes.

As a young guy, I was like Holy smokes.

I didn't think that was possible.

How?

How does a body just get burnt up like that?

My platoon was on security.

The second platoon was on body recovery.

I think it was late in the day when they finally recovered all 16.

The whole time Intel's being gathered about one person process possibly being captured.

My blocking position was right next to the command center and I get over here.

Everything going on, they're hearing radio chatter about a live American, one of the radios that initial seal team had had with them.

I should have been kept on the individual, so once it's started moving, we thought that there was a survivor pushed out one platoon going down to the village where the equipment and sent off a signal information is being passed down was that there is an American being hidden.

So we start searching the buildings Way assumed that the village was like any other village.

Then we just started clearing it as it's known threat.

So we started kicking in doors.

We're asking people where the Americans are, and of course, they speaking, you know, Pashtu and we're speaking English and doesn't translate.

So it's pointing to an American flag patch on his shoulder.

And you know where the Americans way start Hearing commotion going on down the mountain and at this point is when we start seeing a bunch of men pushing another guy, and he's tall, taller than everybody else.

When I get down there, I see that it's an American that's dressed up with the Afghan hat and Afghan dress on and everything they do.

You know, the ordinary hate, what's your name and the security questions, and they find out that it's one of the seals that was missing.

There's a radio transmission saying, Hey, we've got control of Marcus Luttrell.

My name is Marcus Luttrell, on 39 years old and I'm from Texas.

I didn't kid myself.

I didn't tell myself that I was gonna make it out of there.

But I did tell myself that my boys were coming to get me.

If I could hold out, we'll be OK.

That's what I did.

I just waited.

How long it took?

No, I also put in the back of my head that I was an expendable asset.

I'm a Navy SEAL.

I get paid to take risks and die if necessary.

That's one of you to join in for the job because of that line right there.

That's how sexy and cool it is.

But then when it's really happening, you're like, Wait a minute.

But make no mistake forever in trouble.

And you call the Rangers and they'll come get her ass.

That is, Oh, bring everything.

I mean, sure, there's a lobster.

There's a lot to it.

They love the satisfaction of saying they gotta come rescue our ass all time.

That's got to be part of it.

Why wouldn't it be all right?

Do you recall Marcus saying that he would never live down being rescued by Army Rangers?

At least he could make light of the situation that, you know he was in.

I just never sit against that wall.

I mean, and I was beat up, too, But I remember looking at Damn it.

Just gotta think like this guy doesn't know me.

He doesn't know anything about me, but he just went through hell to come get me, man.

There's a chance he he wouldn't like me if you knew me.

It doesn't matter.

Just sitting back and looking to go, Man.

These guys got a phone call saying I was jammed up.

That is pretty good chance they weren't gonna make it out of there if they came to get me.

All right, Miles.

Good game.

It was a total of four on the team.

And so, you know, the next questions is hate.

Where is everybody else?

They were like, Where's your, uh there's a rescue team.

I was a dead man, but I don't.

I'm not sad at the fact how they died.

And in combat next to your brother's file, a brass.

That's how we die.

Now we have solid answer of Okay, There's only one survivor.

So we're looking for three more.

You know, Kay is at least we had an answer to the fate of that reconnaissance team.

At this point, Brian starts assigning the rest of the guys that we're back at the crash site to start doing body recovery because we know they're dead.

But we don't know where they're at, and we never leave a fallen comrade behind.

One of our guys slipped into a little Washington had actually stumbled on on the 1st 2 remains that we found markets.

And we have to.

Now we're looking for the needle in the haystack is to, you know, where's the fourth and final member of this team For the next 10 days?

We continued to search.

We weren't leaving there until we found the third body.

But my higher power said, Hey, you got to go.

If they had kept telling us to stay, we would have stayed.

That would say, within eight hours of us getting relieved, they had found, um, the final missing American Rangers did what they were asked today.

They completed the mission.

We thought we were going in for eight hours.

We stayed there for 12 days.

It was our job was admission.

Bodies were recovered, equipment was destroyed, captured U.

S.

Service members was rescued.

Way saved someone.

That is an accomplishment.

And it wasn't me.

It was the men of Charlie Company, Second Ranger Battalion.

Unique things about this particular operation is it showed the ability of our military to come together as one fighting unit and get something done.

All right, guys died.

It was a Let's go.

And it worked like a surgeon's scalpel, man, just to get me out of there, get the boys back home.

I couldn't walk outside right now.

Somebody would help me change my tire.

These guys were Middle Afghanistan, and they're just don't know me from Adam.

And they walked through them straight to the gates of hell.

Shake hands with the devil.

Come get me.

Because that's where I was at.

I was in hell, So I did it.

Our creed ends with you.

Really?

Will I display the intestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission.

Though I be the lone Survivor Ranger Regiment makes you a better man.

It makes you the best warrior there is flat out on time.

I'll go to my grave believing that you can sleep safely.

I know that there's people like that.

They're gonna defend your country.

I'm problem.