Lone survivor service a navy seal at war

On the mountaintop, the four SEALs radioed for help, and Erik personally led the response. His four-man SEAL team deployed to the mountainous region of Afghanistan near the Pakistan border to begin surveillance on a Taliban leader named Ahmad Shah, but their location was discovered and they were soon outnumbered On this operation, 19 Americans died and only one SEAL, Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell, lived to tell the story. Erik Kristensen was the Task Unit Commander when a SEAL mission that went terribly wrong. Bana himself ensured those details were included. Bana said of Erik: “He’s a guy I would have gotten along with had I gotten to meet him.”Ī good story is in the details, and Mr. We’d knownĮach other for 15 years, and we were roommates when he went through SEAL training in Coronado, Calif., and I was stationed on a destroyer across the bay in 2000. A few years later, I followed them to Gonzaga and then rowed at the Academy, too. School in Washington with my older brother Dave, and they later rowed crew together at the U.S.

I’d known Erik since I was a kid - he’d gone to Gonzaga College High The actor Eric Bana plays the role of my friend, Erik Kristensen, a Navy SEAL officer killed in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005.

Lone survivor service a navy seal at war