Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell Wants You To Take On The Murph Challenge
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell wants YOU to take on The Murph Challenge over Memorial Day weekend in honor of LT Michael P. Murphy and all of the fallen heroes of Operation Red Wings.
Do you accept this Challenge? Register today at TheMurphChallenge.com and HONOR THEM!
Registration opens annually on April 1st and closes on July 31st.
The Official Murph Challenge is powered and presented to you by Forged® (Forged.com). It is the Official annual fundraiser of the LT. Michael P. Murphy Memorial Scholarship Foundation and one of the primary means of funding for the Foundation on an annual basis.
Learn more about this annual worldwide tradition by visiting our website today.
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About Marcus Luttrell | MarcusLuttrell.com
"On June 28, 2005, Luttrell and SEAL Team 10 were assigned to a mission to kill or capture Ahmad Shah (nom de guerre Mohammad Ismail), a high-ranking Taliban leader responsible for killings in eastern Afghanistan and the Hindu-Kush mountains.
The SEAL team was made up of Luttrell, Michael P. Murphy, Danny Dietz and Matthew Axelson. Luttrell and Axelson were the team’s snipers; Dietz was in charge of communications and Murphy the team leader. A group of goat herders stumbled upon the SEALs, the four SEALs immediately took control of the situation and discussed what to do with the herders. After taking a vote and basing their decision on ROE, Michael Murphy made the final decision to let them go. The herders were subsequently released and disappeared over the mountain ridge. Luttrell believed they immediately betrayed the team’s location to local Taliban forces and within an hour, the SEALs were engaged in an intense gun battle. In the ensuing battle, the rest of the SEAL team members were killed. Team leader Michael P. Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the battle. Danny Dietz, Matthew Axelson, and Marcus were awarded the Navy Cross. An MH-47 Chinook helicopter was dispatched with a force consisting of SEALs and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment “Nightstalkers” to rescue the team, but the helicopter was shot down by an RPG. All 16 men on the Chinook were killed.
Luttrell was the only survivor. Badly wounded, he managed to walk and crawl seven miles to evade capture. He was given shelter by an Afghan tribe, who alerted the Americans of his presence, and American forces finally rescued him six days after the gun battle.
Following his physical recovery from Operation Redwing, Marcus went back and completed one more tour before being medically retired. He then wrote the book, Lone Survivor, to share the amazing story of his brothers who paid the ultimate sacrifice." (Biography | MarcusLuttrell.com)