Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir About What Happens After a Miracle
The incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot twenty-seven times while deployed in Iraq.


On the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq's Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day, his team of Navy SEALs, and a group of Iraqi scouts were on the hunt for a high-level al Qaeda cell. Day was the first to enter a 12x12 room where four terrorist leaders were waiting in ambush. When the gunfight was over, he took out all four terrorists in the room, but not before being shot twenty-seven times and hit with grenade shrapnel. Miraculously, Day cleared the rest of the house and rescued six women and children before walking out on his own to an awaiting helicopter, which flew him to safety.


While in the hospital, the Navy SEAL lost fifty-five pounds in two weeks. It took almost two years for Day to physically recover from his injuries, although he still deals with pain. Like so many veterans, doctors diagnosed Day with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury — the invisible wounds of war.


Perfectly Wounded is the remarkable story of an American hero whose incredible survival defies explanation, and whose blessed life of service continues in the face of unimaginable odds.
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Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir About What Happens After a Miracle
The incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot twenty-seven times while deployed in Iraq.


On the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq's Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day, his team of Navy SEALs, and a group of Iraqi scouts were on the hunt for a high-level al Qaeda cell. Day was the first to enter a 12x12 room where four terrorist leaders were waiting in ambush. When the gunfight was over, he took out all four terrorists in the room, but not before being shot twenty-seven times and hit with grenade shrapnel. Miraculously, Day cleared the rest of the house and rescued six women and children before walking out on his own to an awaiting helicopter, which flew him to safety.


While in the hospital, the Navy SEAL lost fifty-five pounds in two weeks. It took almost two years for Day to physically recover from his injuries, although he still deals with pain. Like so many veterans, doctors diagnosed Day with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury — the invisible wounds of war.


Perfectly Wounded is the remarkable story of an American hero whose incredible survival defies explanation, and whose blessed life of service continues in the face of unimaginable odds.
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Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir About What Happens After a Miracle

Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir About What Happens After a Miracle

Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir About What Happens After a Miracle

Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir About What Happens After a Miracle

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Overview

The incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot twenty-seven times while deployed in Iraq.


On the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq's Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day, his team of Navy SEALs, and a group of Iraqi scouts were on the hunt for a high-level al Qaeda cell. Day was the first to enter a 12x12 room where four terrorist leaders were waiting in ambush. When the gunfight was over, he took out all four terrorists in the room, but not before being shot twenty-seven times and hit with grenade shrapnel. Miraculously, Day cleared the rest of the house and rescued six women and children before walking out on his own to an awaiting helicopter, which flew him to safety.


While in the hospital, the Navy SEAL lost fifty-five pounds in two weeks. It took almost two years for Day to physically recover from his injuries, although he still deals with pain. Like so many veterans, doctors diagnosed Day with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury — the invisible wounds of war.


Perfectly Wounded is the remarkable story of an American hero whose incredible survival defies explanation, and whose blessed life of service continues in the face of unimaginable odds.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538701836
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 06/09/2020
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 239,221
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Senior Chief Petty Officer Mike Day proudly served twenty-one years and three months as a U.S. Navy SEAL. His military awards include the Navy Cross; two Bronze Stars, one with Valor; a Purple Heart; and a number of other accommodations. Day continues to lead and train other military Special Operations personnel and law enforcement professionals as a tactical training instructor. He is the founder of Warrior Tribe, a non-profit organization that provides resiliency programming for young people, veterans, and trauma survivors.

Robert Vera's first book, A Warrior's Faith, became a best-seller and earned the publishing industry's 2016 Illumination Silver Medal Award for Best Memoir. Prior to his writing career, he worked as a staff assistant to United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy, where he managed military and veteran constituent services and later became an investment banker. He is married with children and lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where he works as a professional author and speaker.

Table of Contents

Author's Note ix

Foreword Adm. William H. McRaven xi

Preface Lt. Chris Tyll, Navy SEAL xv

Map xix

Part I Tested

1 SEAL Team 4, Foxtrot Platoon 3

2 God Get Me Home 15

3 Resiliency Training 31

4 Boot Camp to BUD/S 43

5 SEAL Team 3-Surf Reports 71

6 Leap Frogs 81

7 Kosovo, Body Parts, and Danger Close 91

8 September 11, 2001 95

9 Ambushes and Miniguns 99

Part II Transformed

10 Medevac 105

11 Baghdad to Germany to Home 113

12 Perfectly Wounded 121

Part III Awake

13 The Enemy Within 137

14 Case Fixer vs. Case Manager 139

15 Climbing Mountains 153

16 Breakthrough and Breakdown 161

17 Ironmans and Hollywood 171

18 The Right Relationships 181

19 New Thoughts, New Job, New Life 191

20 Tattoos 199

21 Personal Revolution: Resiliency Skills and Tools 203

Epilogue Joseph Clark Schwedler 209

Acknowledgments 211

About the Authors 213

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