Surviving Shok Valley | No Man Left Behind

when battle is about to kick off and
it’s eminent definitely get a major shot
of adrenaline because you can’t freeze
at that point we have trained for years
to overcome that fight-or-flight
sensation that everybody has and you
know Green Berets fight in that
situation fighting as a team is
absolutely the most important thing that
you can do on the battlefield if you
don’t have that you know it doesn’t
matter what kind of situation you have
your ears are not gonna get out of it as
successful as you would have as fighting
as a team and we’re not talking about
you know going home at the end of the
day and and you know feeling bad about
how the day went we’re talking about
some of your detachment members being
killed or critically injured the the
consequence is death sometimes our
training weeds out a lot of quitters
you’re given every opportunity for
basically three years during Special
Forces training to quit and I think a
lot of it has to do with you know the
old adage when the going gets tough the
tough get going right this was
definitely a tough situation and I could
have quit at any time
I don’t think anybody would have faulted
me for it either but I just didn’t have
it in me to quit it wasn’t an option at
this point especially after everybody on
the team had risked their lives to get
to me to keep me alive to get me down
that mountain I couldn’t give up now