My Story

My name is Alex Ramirez I've always wanted to be a navy seal and help protect my country. Today and for the rest of the month I get to show these sergeants what I can do. The workouts were hard we had to do so many push ups, long swims, and long runs in sand with wet clothes on but i got through it. I was ready to get deployed. I got deployed in Afghanistan. That was were i met my good friend David. David didn't have a real happy life. David's mom had passed away as well with his dad when David was 8 years old. The only thing he had left was his girlfriend and she had just been done with him. But some how he still kept a smile on his face. Our base sergeants had told us that we were going on a rescue mission. The Taliban had kidnapped  one of our fellow soldiers Juan. Our rescue team was at the location where the Taliban were holding Juan captive. We had  2 snipers about half a mile. They took out the 2 guards next to the door. Me and David went next to the door we peeked inside and there we could see Juan on the floor. Me and David broke down down the door. All of a sudden we were getting shot at. It was coming from the back so our snipers wouldn't be able to help us cause they couldn't see the Taliban. We decided to make a run for it. One of the Taliban members had thrown a grenade in the house. I yelled GRENADE!!!!! David looked at me I looked back. I jumped for cover with Juan and David jumped on it. He did that to contain the blast. It went off and we were fine. Our back up arrived and took care of the rest of the Taliban. We went back to our base safe because he gave up his life to save ours.