US Special Ops Rescues SEAL Team Survivor In Afghanistan | Helicopter Warfare | Spark 

Salute also to the kind afghans who chose to do the right thing and risked their lives

As a retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant who served as a PJ. I walked among many who were true heroes who lived the MOTTO of we do these things that others may Live.

Our men and women, in all fields of military, are unbelievable and do their jobs bravely and efficiently! Thank you! My husband is a Korea/Viet Nam Vet. Everyone of you are phenomenal!

As a teacher of military kids, I feel so proud to know personally how important my “parents” job is and that I can contribute by teaching their children! Thank you for your sacrifice and that of your families to ensure our freedom!!

Wow...I watched in AWE of this rescue mission, it takes 100's of hours of training to accomplish this mission...I AM IMPRESSED....and you guys are special !!

I've read about and watched many telling of this incredble rescue mission. There was no room for error and so, none were made. So deeply grateful for all of our military but esp for these elite special troops. 🇺🇲

God bless you all and thank you so very much for your service. You brought them all home. No greater honor than that.

48:28 “we rescue guys, we always want to bring them back…” we salute 🫡 you for your service! We’ve heard from Ukraine that russians leave so many soldiers to die there, what a difference…

You are Heroes May God bless you all and comfort the families of the fallen heroes

On behalf of a grateful Nation thank you for your service and the recovery of our Fallen❤,🖤

Wow - hard to find the right words after this story. Much respect and care - grateful this crew made it home.

Having worked at Depot on the MH-53J PAVELOWS and AFSOC C-130's, I made sure I gave at least 110% on what I was working on knowing that guys who flew on these aircraft were counting on me to do the job right so that they ALL would come home to their Families and Friends. The best thing that happened to me was when I met a PAVELOW Pilot who shook my hand and said "Thank You" for giving us the BEST helicopter you gave us. I am "Retired" now, but should the time comes and if asked to do it again, "Give me some Tools, a Job Guide, and LET'S GET TO WORK"... PAVELOW LEADS, SO OTHERS MAY LIVE...

My brother was part of rescuing Marcus Latrell the lone survivor. He was a Master PJ Para rescuing medic

I'm a Air Force veteran myself. Thank you for your service!👍

“The Things We Do,That Others May Live” Big fan of PJ’s.

Only thing sucks about this amazing recuse is how long it took the afghan man that saved Markus to get help escaping Afghanistan after risking his life for a complete stranger

PJ’s are guardian angels on earth! “These things we do that others may live ..”

You guys are the best of the best, Proud to be an American, Thank all of you brave men for your service, Kevlar Family

Tragedy that can't be easily erased from memory...REST IN PEACE to all fallen US soldiers.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Just saw a buddy I knew from USAFA while I was at BYU. Proud of him.

Thank God for all these selfless men and women that protect us all...and bless their families for sharing them.

LONE SURVIVOR was an awesome movie.

God Bless these men and all of our veterans!

Bravo to these brave men! To put yourselves on the line to bring our boys safely home -- incredibly heroic.

Thank you men for your service! God bless you all!!👍👍

Trained my whole career for a mission like this and never got the opportunity, but I’m proud of our boys to do it for us all.

I admire all of these brave men so much. And, I’m proud of each and every one. God bless your strength, wisdom, knowledge and bravery.

Thank you Men and Women in Uniform for This greater hard Job your doing to the World.

I used to hop rides and Spanky was often part of the crews I’d fly with. Good guy. Job well done. 🔥🤙🔥🤙

I have read the story of this recovery. What the story did not say was how many assets were involved. Kinda touches my heart * pain and gratitude

Let's not forget the Army Rangers and Delta who had already arrived, fought, located the Seal, brought him out, while staying behind to retrieve bodies and clean up the mess.

I grew up with spanky’s oldest son I knew he was a helicopter pilot but never heard this story now I’m 30 watching this going man what a silent bad ass this dude was

The Afghs that help God bless and protect your families. Thank you hero too.

I was the UH-60 flight simulator instructor at Ft Lewis when this unit started to transition to the Black /Pave Hawk. Interesting crew training with the flight engineer reading procedures for normal and emergency training. I often wondered what happened to them besides doing toboggan runs on Mt Hood. Message requested.

I remember reading about the PJs riding a jungle penetrator to a wounded fighter on the ground in the AF Times around ‘67 -‘68. Mad respect for PJs and the Pave low/hawk crews that do the CSAR mission.

American soldiers protecting liberty across this entire planet can be described in one word, Guardian Angels in human form. Thank you God most high. Thank you America.

Generally, I can't think of any service member, from any branch, that would hesitate receiving assistance from USAF PJ's. They receive the best training from multiple branches, including HALO jumps, Seal dive training, etc. The various branches, especially within SOCOM, successfully work together every day. My US Army, instruments instructor pilot was a retired USAF, MH53 Pave Low pilot specializing in Seal incursions and extractions. It's been my service experience that the inter-branch rivalry narrative is portrayed way bigger than it really is. Sure, there is always some but, the reality isn't like a bar scene in an old WW2 movie.

Wow ! The most daring mission ! Skillful,up dated & with team spirit ! ❤️❤️

God Bless the soldiers for every service they render for the good of the nation🙏

4:57 "...was a little bit cold" *happy music starts playing*

Thanks for your service to our country. I will always stand with you!!!

We are praying for you and Israel… We appreciate your reporting and we know the truth too… You have our prayers and support in the United States brother…. God Bless

Thank you for your service. Salute to the amount of focus and team work to you all. 💯💥👌👍🇵🇭

Great teamwork you guys. I salute you all.... From Capetown South Africa..... 😢

Salute to rescue teams,so proud of your , thanks for sharing your video clip …? (RCL veterans)🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🇦🇺🇬🇧🇹🇼

There spirits are one with the air frame . awesome guys. God bless you and your families.

You guys are doing a great job around the world, keep it up team.

Had the privilege to work on HH-60 Pavehawk. Seen one bird take an RPG to the transition area. Got to work on Snoball, the HH-60 that rolled down a snow mountain during a rescue operation. Its main rotor blades made contact with the snowy mountain, then refueling probe. Another HH-60 came in for a 600hr inspection. Picked up the floorboards, you could see the blood-soaked cabin frame. Knew someone had a really bad day. Also worked on UH-60 Blackhawk, n-model huey, AH-64 Apache, and OH-58 kiowa. Thank you to all American service members, past, future, and present for yalls sacrifices

This was such a touching story.. RIP to those who gave their lives, so we could have our freedom.

God Bless you HEROES!! Thank you!!🙏🏻🔱 ❤️💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

well done All Servicemen who took part in this Brave but Daring Rescue

I praise these men and women every chance i get, it takes a unique kind of person with courage to put there lives before there country and the free people that live in our free country THANK YOU SOLDIERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! YOU GUYS DESERVE SO MUCH MORE THEN U GET,ESPECIALLY OUR HURT TROOPS THAT NEED DAILY ATTENTION FOR THERE INJURIES! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Thanks to rangers & airforce reserves and others that helped ❤️‍🔥 💪

You dont leave the fallen, true to the nail.. So proud of the Team. Love and Respect from INDIA...

Wow, what an operation! Thanks for what you do!

God bless Skinny and Spanky for their amazing performance!

Wow! What an impressive video, and story of these brave men and women who serve their country and pay the ultimate sacrifice. This was a beautifully told story of each man involved in the fight, and in the brave soldiers who ultimately rescued them and returned them to their families.

THANK YOU ALL OF YOUR SERVICE. RIP TO THE FALLEN MEN. THANK YOU THIS VIDEO IS GOOD TO KNOW WHAT YOU ALL DO ON A MISSION. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO. GOD BLESS

These men are true heroes, men America is very proud of.

What is your definition of rescue? The Rangers rescued Latrell. The AF did a very good job of flying him out. The real gunslingers got him safe

Thank you for your service.

Thank you, guys! One team, one fight!💥💪

Wow totally for all of those who helped in bringing all the heroes, fallen and alive, HOME!

The highest respects to all on this mission first off. “Spanky” sir as a helo guy, I can only imagine holding hover in a brown out in the tightest critical pinnacle terrain scenario, not to mention the drop off and the responsibility of it all in your hands, brother you get the “flying cross”!!! Hovering blind is difficult enough, but the (mission) weight of coming all that way, and dealing with that LZ and making it happen! Well done Sir, well done!! 😎🙏🏼🙏🏼🤙🏽

That helicopter crew and the crew chief are super stars man and have ice water in their veins and nerves of steel.

when you see what's going on in our country now. I can only say thank you

I salute you dear American soldiers the Navy Seals who perished doing their duty and the rescuers for tisking your lives getting the bodies home.God bless you all.

Salute to our fallen❤ Thank You all. Gone but not forgotten.

Thanks for sevices dearly ❤️ for doing what you've do my son was navy seals which he passed away July 27,2011 😊

This story is a bit off it was Army Rangers who found LIttrell, then they called in SAR (Operation Redwings), it was also the Rangers who found the bodies

Couldnt even imagine the pressure, stress, and anxiety.

I can relate. I love my family, they all knew it but on mission, success is the only thing on my mind. Every day was my last. Literally

Marcus Latrell your one bad @ss Navy Seal, sorry about your brodas, Murphy and the rest are proud of you, God still has a plan for your life down here. Thank you for your services & sacrifices… 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

They should make another movie rescuing Marcus Luttrell seems like a movie by itself I’m sure that would help the family of all of Marcus‘ teaments help all the family’s of the fallen 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🗽🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🗽🗽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

God has indeed blessed America with these men of the armed forces.

One for all 🇺🇸 All for one we all come home 💪🏻

When AfghanistanAmerica thing is mentioned I get memories of the four commandos who had a bloody contact with mountain tigers goons deep in the unforgiving terrain of Afghanistan but one survived. These stories reminds many out here how situation can change from good 2 ugly in a fraction of a second...in a millisecond that is. Would like 2 be an Apache crew these eagles are baddest they stood and overcame the taliban fire.

You are all on the same team and should act accordingly. Have each other’s backs. Ego should get left at home❤ Stay safe and make it back home. You all are amazing ❤🇺🇸

It took 10 days to find 1 team member's body. It apparently looked as if he had only been dead for a day. It makes you wonder about the lone survivor. These pilots, rangers and delta are the heroes.

The movie Lone survivor is way too far from reality... But salute to all who took the fall for us to have our today ☝️🙏♥️🇺🇲🇵🇭

My father was a PJ, a long time ago though. He volunteered for it and off to Vietnam he went after training. He wanted to choose a job instead of being drafted to infantry etc. He has some incredible stories from his time in Vietnam, and served for 16 more years afterwards until retirement, and yes, he has the jolly green giant footprint tattoo on his ass 😂

Amazing men doing the near impossible. great story. Over the top bravery. TY

Thanks , Love it u guys/pilots saved lots of people

Our military forces are the finest!

The combat search and rescue pilots are also the heroes in this battle!!!

These are brave guys. As a fighter Pilot I always bought those guys a beer whenever possible

Thank you for your service!!

As a Home Depot special agent who served in the wood section of the Home Depot ! I can say with all honesty this happened the way they said it did

To have served among giants, will forever remain my greatest honor, to the end of my days.

Thank you. Hooyah!!!. ❤️💙

" God Bless America "

Well done. Well said. And a big thank you.

Awesome job by all involved!!! The helicopter crews went above and beyond in their retrieval of the lone survivor!!!! Hence the name of the movie dedicated to this mission!!!

Love hearing this stories

Salute to all of you guys

Thank You for this video. From US Navy Veteran. ✝️🙏❤🇺🇸

Love this these guys are professionals and it shows 😤🔥

God bless America ❤❤❤

That movie broke my heart. My fiance was KIA in Afghanistan and I’m still not over it. Report said he was hit with an RPG and small arms fire and his escort home was told at Dover that an “open casket was strongly advised against” Heartbreaking 😢 I’m glad they could recover one of the guys here…so sad though…SEALS go through so much training, had they tied all those guys w the goats up perhaps they would have had more time to get out…would have should have… sad either way🥺😔

We heard the story of The Lone Survivor. How the Rangers came in as a part of Operation Red Wing. This is how it ends. Welcome home