Matt Axelson's Team Fighting The Taliban
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Matt Axelson had served the Navy SEALS for 5 years. His rank was petty officer second class. He was part of a team fighting the Taliban after the attacks on the World Trade Center in the United States on September 11, 2001. He was part of the Guerilla operations that were conducted along the Pakistan border. His purpose in this was to ensure that the Taliban could no longer train nor attack from Afghanistan. He was deployed in April 2005 to Afghanistan. His seal team consisted of four men that were led by Lieutenant Michael Murphy. They followed high target terrorists through the peaks. This is when they were ambushed. Two helicopters came in to help. 16 personnel were killed when a rocket propelled grenade hit the helicopter. Matt, Murphy,