Why Marcus Luttrell Went Back Into Combat After Nearly Dying

the jurogan experience we were ramadi it was the worst place i've ever been after afghanistan went to iraq excuse me anbar province chris kyle was there that's when he got there so let's explain to people the people don't even know this after that movie what the events that happened in the movie lone survivor you re you went back yeah i'm still in yeah you went back you took more tours right and and the last one we went on was in uh in anbar province in ramadi iraq is i was there 0.607 i relieved or ripped out is what we say uh jocko splatoon which is jocko chris kyle and those guys and it was hell i mean it was the last stand for all it was like when we was like hey let's fight sleeping in our body armor i mean i went out there we took 18 men and 14 of them got wounded i didn't lose i didn't lose one guy the day before we were redeploying one of my i had two point men they like they run the platoon out and we're doing operations i'll never i remember i mean sheldon burger uh i miss you bro and then another a firefighter named that's lame starting man bro i miss you he was walking outside the tent and a round came over from outside and hit him in the ribs and he was sitting next to one of the walls or next to a dumpster and one of our buddies comes walking i was like what's wrong with he's like man i think somebody hit me with a rock and you're getting shot the x-ray is awesome it's literally his spine and then you see the 762 round right in front of it they can't pull it out it's been encapsulated it just has to sit there he's fine now but there was a gunfight going outside the wall and it'd come over and hit him so the day before we were coming back he got hit and then the other one shellenberger i remember he he we got back and we they had separated us and he went to a different team it's sdvs i know you're familiar with with our submersible system yeah and two months or so later maybe it might have been a little bit of a more he died underneath an aircraft carrier doing a dive so the darkest place on the planet is underneath an aircraft carrier at night it's a modern marvel six 000 people in airwing it's a floating city if you it's it's unbelievable how it even holds in water yeah and a lot of the training all of our training is is twice as dangerous as real life we make it that way on purpose that's why more seals die in combat or in training than they do in combat usually when you see seals dying in combat there's a bunch of us i mean we we get hit with us it was 19 extortion was 31 and it just kind of it's just the way we are but coming out of afghanistan and then go and then rolling into iraq i remember seeing jocko and he was just he had his war face on so he didn't talk to me choco wakes up with his war face on no but i mean imagine like when he's got permission to jack you up yes you know what i mean jocko he's gonna jack you up right like he'd go out and raise an american flag out in the middle of the day just to start just to get some get it going he's a real deal so when we found out we were going out there i was like yeah but then in my head i was apprehensive because i just had my ass kicked real bad and going back i i mean i had to go back out here in texas man if you get your butt whipped you go back in for more when you get healed up did you feel that way yeah i had to immediately immediately i mean look at the fraternity i'm in and they never they never looked down on me because we went through buds together bud stands for basic underwater demolition seal training but it also means if you take everything away from us we're still buds because we survived in hell and uh when we went back out there matter of fact the first gun fight i ever got in i remember taking a knee and kind of sitting there going what in the hell am i doing here i mean it hadn't even been a year i couldn't even i could barely walk really that's a whole different story altogether but um we we anyways we got out of there and i remember we got back to the bay i'll tell you the story we got back to the bait some of my new guys walked up to me it was their first gun fight and they're like hey i was checking i was like hey how are you guys doing you good i know you you got into it you did what you were supposed to do well done and and they were like well you know i was freaking out when the gunfire started but then i looked up you were you were calm and cool and you looked back at us and you looked forward and you looked back and kind of made a call when we got out of there it was smooth i was like keep thinking that brother because when i when that gunfire started i took that knee i was like what the hell i mean i i was it was just like that first fight like when you start getting beaten up again and then you realize like wait a minute i'm a fighter and then i was like okay well let's go and then i stood up and made the call but there are in any situation you go into there's going to be that kind of hesitation i i hear people all the time like man i've been training so long for this but i still have the fear and i was like well that's different that's anxiousness it runs off the same gland fear and anxiousness of your adrenals so in the beginning you have fear because you're not trained but then as you train then it becomes anxious so when that first punch is thrown that first bullet flies it's like oh let's go there's it's a switch it has to be that way you don't want to walk around and gauge the whole time there has to be a trigger also you can't be calm you can't just be calm about it you you that uncomfortable feeling right whether it's a fight or what you've gone through it's it's you can't be comfortable so the difference in the ring and then a gun fight is that you have to talk like you're not talking to the dude you're beating up like hey dude watch this punt so with us when it goes down you're gonna fight you're like okay we need to move this way and that's the while we train like that and in that fight you got to learn how to communicate and that's what kind of slows you down and it's we do it so much so here's the difference between the seals and everybody else in our training kind of one of the things is is in the beginning they wear us out all day for weeks on end and they tire us out keep us up and then they start training us then you get your pistol so you're completely exhausted and when you learn like that it's muscle memory so when we get engaged our enemy will start attacking us and then they'll like i'm wearing them down and then they think that's a good thing it's not it's actually a bad thing because that's when we start to come up and that's that's that's the separation our in our training as they've switched it don't you think that that's a lesson that people can that if you can apply that to your life that you're anything good that you're going to do is going to make you uncomfortable anything difficult all of it whether even like when you have a child like the birth of a child it's uncomfortable it's a weird moment whether you try a new thing in life where you move to a new place where you when the you any any new business venture you end to enter into everything you do that's difficult is going to make you uncomfortable and that's the only way to get ahead that's it but the most extreme version of it that we can all learn from is war the most extreme version of is when the the consequences are your your existence you don't you don't exist anymore if you fail it's only uncomfortable because you haven't been in it everything's like that getting dressed in the morning doing everything i mean it's the same thing imagine you have the capability of being trained in any scenario it's whether or not you want to get in you want all of it all of them everything makes you uncomfortable that's new yeah so don't look at it as uncomfortable right that's exciting yeah exciting the fear and everything like what right it's exciting somebody told you that you were supposed to my mother had breast cancer here recently bad and uh she had to go get the surgery and a matriarchal family so when mom's sick melanie has to take care of all that i'm kind of uh when it comes to her whatever i'm just i'm weak but she recovered with me so when i got her home i was like mom check it out pain is pain when we go down in the gym and i'll work out chest as hard as i can then that night and the next day i'm a two-day guy so the pain feels like my chest is being ripped out i feel like sometimes i work out so hard and i bleed and i puke that i'm being torn apart i love it because i know right after i get done with that i'm going to be stronger because i don't get battle weekend i get battle hardened period i've had the bones knocked out of me on the ground just crying but i knew that that was just sharpening me i was like here's what's gonna happen we're gonna go and put you under the knife you'll wake up the next morning you'll be sore and you're gonna lay up for a week just like we were in the gym and your chest is sore one week later she whipped it like the flu she was ready to leave she's like i'm tired of being around you boy again i mean my mom is something she's she's something that's awesome but pain is a matter of perspective of the person going through it catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background by using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to spotify now to get this full episode of the joe rogan experience

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Length: 9min 27sec (567 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 24 2021