- It still has all the bullet holes in it.

Still covered in blood.

It's ripped in the back here.

- Retired Navy Seal Senior Chief Mike Day

shows me body armorthat helped protect him

in a battle with Al-Qaedaterrorists in Iraq.

What is this here?

Talk about this.

- Well, this is a what we call an LBE,

load bearing equipment.

So this is what you carryyour radio in, your magazines,

and it's actually loadedup pretty much the way

it was that night.

- [Mark] That night in April,2007 in Anbar Province,

Day's team of Navy Seals and Iraqi Scouts,

were on the hunt for ahigh level Al-Qaeda cell.

He says the terroristshad shot down helicopters.

Being the first to enter a 12 by 12 room

where for Al-Qaedaleaders waited to strike

proved to be almost deadly.

- As soon as I entered the room,

they opened fire and I lost my rifle.

I transitioned to mypistol and I killed the guy

down the left wall as Iwas coming off my feet,

and I landed right next to him.

- [Mark] When the gunfight was over,

Day took out all fourterrorists in the room,

but not before being shot 27 times

and hit with grenade shrapnel.

- So all of this equipmentyou were wearing the night

that you got shot 27 times?

- Correct.

- [Mark] Day first sharedhis miraculous story

with CBN News six years ago.

Now he has a new bookcalled, "Perfectly Wounded:

"A Memoir About WhatHappens After a Miracle."

He says the title came from a comment

made by an emergency room doctor.

- So he got to see allmanner of gunshot wounds,

stab wounds, I mean, he saw,

if you work in the ER, youget to see all that stuff.

- [Mark] True.

- And I was explaining to him

where I'd been shot, and his response was,

"Well, you were just perfectly wounded."

- Do you believe thatGod spared your life?

- Yeah, I do.

A lot of people will look atthat, that whole gunfight,

"You know, you got shot 27times and walked away from it.

"You know, you're here for a reason."

I think I'm just starting tofind out that I actually am.

I look at my, the rest of my life,

and how protected I've been.

I haven't talked to thesepeople, my guardian angels or,

but I've almost died ,anddied, multiple times,

and I'm still here.

- What do you hope peopletake away from the book?

- Maybe a way to help build resiliency,

and I don't want to give advice.

I don't, I just I'm like,this is, this is how I did it.

That's pretty much what the books about.

How I suffered a traumalike everybody's going to

and how I built the resiliency to get,

get through the next one.

- [Mark] Although Daydoesn't want to give advice,

he does offer this to those who may deal

with tough times in their own lives.

- If all you do is sit onthe couch, and watch TV,

and eat bad food, whensomething really bad happens,

you don't have the training,

you don't have the practiceto get through that,

and it can become overwhelming

and it's gonna dump you into a hole.

So it's just a mindset of a training

and practicing to build resiliency,

and that means getting up and working out,

to push yourself just a tiny bit.

I like to end my showers with cold water.

Nice to steam down in the room,

and it also provides that shock.

And I think if you practicedphysical resiliency,

it's going to also buildyour psychological resiliency

and vice versa.

- Before writing the book,

Day spent his life giving back.

He worked at the US SpecialOperations Command Warrior Care

Program, also called the Care Coalition,

helping service members.

He's also taught freefall to military personnel

and special operationsurban combat to Seal teams.

Senior chief Day is also in the process

of starting a non-profitorganization called Warrior Tribe.

It will provide resiliencyeducation for young people,

veterans, and trauma survivors.

The retired Navy Seal is also considering

running for governor of Virginia

because of his concernthat constitutional rights

are being taken away.

- Yeah, very preliminary.

I don't really want to do it,

but when I get scared, andI'm kind of scared right now

what I'm watching, whenI get scared, I go fight.

I don't, I don't cower.

I, my fight or flightreflex tells me to go fight.

And I'm kinda scared rightnow about what's going on.

- Day definitely did not cower that night

in 2007 in Iraq, whenhe nearly lost his life.

Why is it important to you to keep this?

- Cause I want to be able to remember.

I mean it's a treasured possession of mine

because it helps meremember and know more,

and I don't want to forget it.

- All right, well thank you.

Thank you for doing this.

Thank you for your service too, as well.

Most definitely.- No, see,

I got kicked out of high school.

I had nothing else to do.

- No, no, it's veryhonorable, your service.

- Well, I'm lucky I got to do it.

- [Mark] Mark Martin,CBN news, Virginia Beach.