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Unless you were there, there is no reason to think any of the stories (good or bad) are anything other than propaganda.

The US navy literally wrote the book, and gave it to Luttrell. This has recently come to light. Now if that’s not propaganda then I don’t know what is.

I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but source? Genuinely curious.

I don't have a link handy, but I recall seeing on YT a clip of Luttrell basically outright stating that the Navy "handed him the book pre-written" in an interview.

I'd get to steppin' and find it. Compelling statements need compelling sources.

Not OP, but here:

https://youtu.be/yZ6mgltPclk

And the other Valhalla VFT one, and the Team House podcast, and just all over the place…

Luttrell didn't have anything to do with it. The writer is a British fiction writer. He did a one hour interview with Lutrell, that's the entire involvement Luttrell had with it.

That sucks if true, although I don't expect everyone military special forcers operator to also be a great author on top of their other amazing skills, I expect it to be somewhat ghost written, but one hour? Perhaps the ghostwriter used other interviews and had access to other reports?

Oh I'm sure he read about it somewhere. But the book is simply fiction. Most of the story as Luttrell tells it to this day is false, but the book is even worse.

The link I posted earlier tells the real story.

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