Posted on 03/30/2023 4:48:35 AM PDT by nuconvert
Douglas “Mike” Day, a highly decorated U.S. Navy SEAL who survived being shot 27 times while deployed to Iraq, passed away earlier this week on March 27. Day served 21 years in the Navy and later worked as an author and an advocate for wounded military veterans.
On April 6, 2007, Day was nearing the end of a deployment to the Anbar province of Iraq, and leading his SEAL platoon on a raid against an al Qaeda cell in the city of Fallujah. With two Iraqi scouts behind him, Day breached the door of a room and was immediately struck with multiple bullets, knocking his rifle out of his hands.
“I took a left-hand turn and they just started shooting at me,” Day said on the Team Never Quit podcast in 2020.
Falling to the ground, Day transitioned to his pistol and shot one of the four terrorists in the room. As a second man pulled the pin on a grenade and began running towards the hallway, Day killed him as well. The grenade fell to the ground and detonated, wounding Day with the shrapnel. He briefly lost consciousness, but when he awoke he continued engaging the other men in the room, shooting them with his pistol even as he was struck yet again multiple times from less than 10 feet away with AK-47 fire.
“After I realized that I actually was getting shot, my second thought was, ‘God get me home to my girls,’ and then extreme anger,” Day told Fox News in 2015. “Then I just went to work. It was muscle memory. I just did what I was trained to do.”
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I know a few with this kind of load to carry.
I knew a couple who had left themselves on the battlefield when it came right to it.
We saw Team Never Quit a few years ago. Impressive people to be sure.
This is very sad.
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Amen
My sincere apologies….
Thank you for calling me out…..I apologize
My husband was also in the Navy………I meant no disrespect.
Your humility is admirable and appreciated.
Thanks. We’re fine.
Heartbreaking.
Fair winds and following seas, Douglas “Mike”.
Do Rest in Peace, American Man — your lineage is the Day.
(Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.)
No doubt. How did he even survive?
I spent a few hours in conversation with a man who had been aboard the USS Indianapolis when she was sunk. Fifty years later, as he talked, his face reddened with emotion, and he choked up and was unable to speak.
The power of that. Fifty years later. That really left a mark on me, listening to and observing this man.
It was terrible to see.
Sometimes time does not heal all wounds.
Prayers.
Thank you, most respectful ending to a misunderstanding I’ve seen here in a long, long time. Made me take notice.
Thank you Chief Da for your service to your nation and to the US Navy. Prayers for your family, friend and fellow warriors during this time of grieving.
Semper Fi, from an old Marine
Apparently the cause of Mike Day’s death was suicide. He hung himself. Suicide is sadly very common among combat veterans. I am very saddened to hear about it. He gave so much. He should have had a long peaceful life.
That is heartbreaking. May God hold that hero in the palm of His hand & watch over him today & everyday to eternity.
Sometimes time does not heal all wounds.
Time does not heal wounds at all. Ever.
Time dulls the pain, but it never heals.
If we still called it "Shell Shock" instead of "PTSD", maybe they would have been better taken care of.
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