‘Lone Survivor’ Marcus Luttrell recalls discipline, chaos, pain in his life

“I don’t care what you do for a living. If you don’t do your best, you are beaten,” he said.

“You train the hard way so you can live the easy way. Most people will always go for the easy,” he also mentioned.

“Pain and misery have made me who I am,” said the outdoors boy from Texas, then acknowledging he had left all he had this day on the forum stage, just as he had during his time in the military.

“That’s all I got for you,” he said.

Facing the “Lone Survivor” Dilemma

By now, most SOFREP readers, and indeed, most Americans, are familiar with the story of ‘Lone Survivor,’ subject of a bestselling book and popular Hollywood movie. For those who are not, it’s essentially about a four-man SEAL element in Afghanistan in 2005 whose mission was compromised, forcing them to evade a large Taliban force pursuing […]