Aug 08 , 2020
Meet the Navy SEAL who was shot 27 times and lived to tell the story
Navy SEAL Sr. Chief Mike Day had never been shot before, but that changed dramatically one night in April 2007.
In 2007, Mike Day was caught in a brutal firefight with three al-Qaeda insurgents after he was the first of his team to enter a room in a town near Fallujah, Iraq. The enemy fighters opened fire, hitting Day with 27 separate bullets. 11 of the shots were stopped by his body armor, but 16 penetrated his body and left him perilously wounded.
A grenade then exploded just 10 feet away from him, knocking him unconscious. According to Day, when he woke up roughly a minute later, he managed to kill two of the fighters with his pistol.
“Upon entering that doorway, they all just opened up on me. It felt like somebody was just beating me up with sledgehammers,” Day said.
“After I’d figured out I was getting shot I said, ‘God, get me home to my girls.’ That was my first prayer to God, real prayer. When the fighting finally stopped, he miraculously got up and walked himself to a medical helicopter.
“People hear about my story and they can’t believe it. I was there and I can’t believe it,” Day said. “I got shot 27 times – 16 in the body and 11 times in my body armor. ”
“I was shot in both legs, both arms, my left thumb was almost amputated, I was shot in the abdomen and had a colostomy bag for a year, my right scapula was shattered, I was shot twice in the buttocks, once in the scrotum and my body armor was hit multiple times which caused fractured ribs and contusions on my lungs.”
The Navy SEAL spent just 16 days in the hospital – during which time he lost 50lbs – before he was discharged and awarded the Purple Heart, the oldest military decoration still given to serving military members in the US.
During the following years, he was treated for PTSD by the Carrick Brain Centers, in Dallas.
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53 Comments
What a fantastic story. Thank you for serving your country and us the citizens of it. May God bless you and give you much favor for doing it.
First and foremost, I thank you for your service. I served 24 years in the Army in the infantry, military police, military intelligence counterespionage counterterrorism. I am currently in progress practice as a licensed professional counselor. Therapeutically, one of the most effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder is EMDR. The letters stand for Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing. The success rate for my clients that include military, police, paraprofessionals, is unlike any other therapeutic interventions that I’ve ever used over the years. You can Google me at Psychology Today, Therapists, Roni Caw. You will then see Roni Caw, PhD, LPC. That will link you to my Psychology Today website. Feel free to contact me through the site. I’ll be more than happy to share information with you. Take care and have a blessed day. Roni Caw, PhD, LPC
This nation can never repay you for your heroism except to honor the Federalist Papers, our Constitution, Bill of Rights, Rule of Law, our Sovereignty, and our Freedoms, isn’t that what it’s all about? Thank you for your service, God bless you, our troops, and the Patriots who will ban together to once again Make America Great Again!
Hello sir.you are a real American.I served with a Medal of Honor winner in the Army.that was Sgt Bondsteel in 1975 for his heroic actions in Vietnam.no doubt you are in the same status level as he was.if every American could hear your story this country would be better for it.thank you and all the best to you and your family
Amazing. So happy you were able to get back to your girls. God was surely with you that day. God Bless you. Thank you for your service sir.