Shot 27 times.
16 bullets in his body.
11 stopped by body armor that was only meant to take one.
Navy SEAL Senior Chief Mike Day was the first man through the door on a raid against an al-Qaeda cell in Iraq’s Anbar Province on April 6, 2007.
The moment he stepped inside, they opened fire at point-blank range. His rifle was shot out of his hands. He transitioned to his pistol and kept fighting.
A grenade detonated near him, knocking him unconscious and filling him with shrapnel. When he came to, he finished the fight. killing the remaining enemy in the room.
Then he walked himself to the medevac helicopter.
No assistance. Just pure will and training.
For that night he was awarded the Silver Star.
Mike Day survived the unimaginable. He later wrote about resilience in his book Perfectly Wounded. But the invisible wounds of war followed him, and he died by suicide in 2023.
True American warrior. Never forget what these men carry and what some of them never put down.
Rest in peace soldier. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸