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#313 Eric Frohardt - DEVGRU Gold Squadron Sniper and Assaulter
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Super Bowl Sunday 2008: The Iraq Firefight That Killed Two Teammates
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The Super Bowl Sunday story is told with grim, visceral precision. The troop expected a stand-down; instead, an HVT in their AOR forced a launch. Three buildings, three assault teams, simultaneous breach. The operation unraveled immediately when Eddie and Dom's element was compromised and roughly 15 vest-wearing fighters began running toward them, detonating themselves. Frohardt held a door alone, engaged a vest-wearing, AK-carrying fighter from three yards, then entered to find a barricaded shooter whose AK went off first — but whose detonator had already failed on the suicide vest, and whose rounds all missed. Frohardt ran his wall, fired while moving, and survived. Minutes later, the radio traffic turned to casualties: four teammates shot, two killed. That night ended with him placing Mike Coke in a body bag on a helicopter.
A fighter in the doorway, three yards away, opened fire with an AK while wearing a suicide vest whose detonator had just failed. Frohardt ran his wall, moved, and shot him in the head. His hearing shut off and everything slowed down.
