He didn’t realize it, but Day had been shot 27 times — 16 times in his body, and 11 times on body armor. Mike Day’s April 2007 Navy SEAL MissionMike Day enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1989 and, by 2007, was serving in the Iraq War as a U.S. Navy SEAL. According to his memoir, Perfectly Wounded he had been on hundreds of missions with various Navy SEAL platoons. Mike Day had survived so much, and yet his scars from war had proven to be too much for him to bear. After reading about Mike Day’s tragic story, read about the complicated legacy of Richard Marcinko, the founder of U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six.