Mike screamed grenade out and jumped on it and boom!
Two snipers were providing over watch for the other platoon
that were trying to maneuver
and unbeknownst to Mike and those guys an insurgent
had seen where they were firing,
had snuck up next to the side of that building,
pulled out a hand grenade, pull it and threw it up
and that thing came right up, boom
and hit Mike right on the chest.
Petty officer Mike Monsoor took the entirety of that blast
in his face and his chest.
He lasted for another 35 minutes
before he passed away on the Metavekvar Route.
The kicker of this story is that there was a stairwell
right next to Mike
and all he had to do was jump down that stairwell
to save his own life but he didn't.
He turned and jumped on the grenade, sacrificing himself
so his two brothers could both go home and hug their wives,
kiss their children and fight another day.
Want you think to yourself, what would you do.
For 70 years United States Navy Seal team,
we've been pushing the envelope, we've been setting the bar,
we've been setting the standard for what the team life is
and how you should live.
Are you really committed to yourself physically
cause we all know when the going gets tough,
the more in shape, the more focused you are
on what you eat and what you consume, the better you are.
I spent 15 months in the frigid waters of the Pacific Ocean
to the mountains of Afghanistan
on seven different occasions and to the shores of Haiti
doing missionary work with my church.
And what I've learned in this incredible journey
are a few undeniable truths
about what enables us to succeed.
Now truth number one is;
you've got fear in your heart always
and you can't defeat it.
Everybody's like, well that's a bummer,
the problem is ladies and gentlemen
is you're wired for fear right, it's part of our lives.
We have it in what we do for a living right?
We talk about fear in your lives, in your personal lives,
with your family.
Folks we've got fear period, so what you have to learn to do
is embrace it; truth one.
The second one is; self confidence is huge, it's important
and you've gotta forge it every single day.
The third one is; you gotta live with purpose,
if you don't have purpose in your life
you don't have momentum,
you don't have anything driving you forward,
anything pulling you out of bed every single day.
And the last one and the one I learned (laughs)
that left an indelible mark not only in my heart
but in my soul, on those beaches
across the street over there cause nobody does it alone,
there's not a single person in this whole room right now
that can raise there hand and say, you know what Roy,
I've done it by myself,
not a single person out there has helped me not one.
We all need help.
So as a result of that you have to recognize
that you have to live what I call team.
You've have to be 100% focused,
that everything you think about,
everything you do is with someone else
cause we're the team.
Amen right?
We've been giving everything we are to our communities,
to our families, to our children.
But more importantly we're willing to give everything we are
and potentially everything we will ever be
for the man that's next to us.
This is the team life, this is what my mission here is today
is to help you understand this standard
to help you redefine your understanding
of what that mission might look like for you.
Are you working on it?
Are you working on it right now?
Did you work on it today?
Are you gonna go work on it tonight?
Cause I tell you with those three things
you're on the road (mumbles).
I've worked with every kind of person
there is on this planet, we all bleed red.
What I care about
is there's something that gets you out of bed every morning,
there's something that you have faith in
that's bigger than yourself,
there something that you're willing to sacrifice
for another human being.
That's powerful.
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