Personal Narrative: Hell Week

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At boot camp we had one week called Hell Week, where there’s 3 tiers of challenges. In Hell Week we slept for 2 hours in one week. I was pushed harder than any other camp or challenge I’ve ever done. To get breakfast we had to run 1 mile with a 180-pound boat on our heads. We had to swim in water less than 40 degrees Fahrenheit when we have been awake for 72 hours.

The scariest mission for me was obviously the Operation Red Wing mission. We were assigned to capture and/or kill Ahmad Shah, and escape.

We were assigned to kill and/or capture Ahmad Shah June 28, 2005. Ahmad Shah was linked to the finding of Osama Bin Laden. I was very lucky to survive this mission. I crawled 4 miles in the hot desert Afghanistan and ran into the Pashtun tribe’s

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