Name: Why Marcus Luttrell Went Back Into Combat After Nearly Dying
Uploaded: 2021-03-24T21:18:15.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Marcus Luttrell Went Back Into Combat After Nearly Dying' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Marcus Luttrell Went Back Into Combat After Nearly Dying' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-24. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience we were in Ramadi it was the worst place I'd ever
been after Afghanistan went to Iraq excuse me Anbar province Chris Kyle was
there that's when he got let's explain to people that people many 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 was still in yeah you went back you
did more tours right and and the last one we went on was in an Anbar
province in Ramadi Iraq is I was there oh six oh seven I relieved or ripped out
is what we say Jocko's platoon 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
redeployed 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 Schellenberger I miss you bro and
then another a firefighter name that's Liam Stodden man bro I miss you he was
walking outside the tent and around 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 you he's like man I think
somebody hit me with a rock and he had given shot the x-ray is awesome it's
literally his spine and then you see this 762 round right in front of it they
can't pull it out it's been encapsulated yes it just has to sit there he's fine
now but there was a gunfight going outside the wall and it come over and hit
him so the day before we were coming back he got hit and then the other one
Schellenberger I remember he he we got back and we they had separated us and he
went to a different team his SDVs I know you you're familiar with with our submersible
system
yeah and two months or so later maybe it might have been a little bit 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 6,000 people in air wing 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 is a bunch of us I mean we get hit with us
it
was 19 extortion it 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 he's just he
had his war face on so he didn't talk to me Jocko wakes up with his war face on
no but I
mean imagine like when they're he's got permission to jack you up yes you know
I mean Jocko he's gonna
jack you up right like he 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 the 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 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
yeah 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 BUDS 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 gunfight 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 all together but um 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 bay some of my new guys walked
up to me it was our
first gunfight and they're like hey I was checking I was like hey how you guys
doing you good I know you
you got into it you didn't 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 look back at us and you look forward and you look back and kind of made
a call and we got
out of there it was smooth and 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 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 off 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 engage the whole time there has to be a
trigger also you can't
be calm you can't just be calm about it 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 in a
gunfight is that you have to talk like you're not talking to the dude you're
beating up like hey dude
watch his punt yeah so with us when it goes down you're gonna fire you're like
okay we need to move
this way and that's the while we train like that 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
be 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 in 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 gonna do is gonna make you
uncomfortable anything
difficult all of it whether even 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 enter 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 it yeah
everything makes you uncomfortable that's new yeah so don't look at it as
uncomfortable right
that's a word somebody yeah exciting the fear and everything like what all
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 matriarchal family so when mom's sick i have meli has to take care of all
that i'm kind of
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 ma 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 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 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
weakened 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 going to
happen we're
going to go and put you under the knife you're gonna wake up the next morning
you'll be sore
and you're going to lay up for a week it's 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
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