In the earlier hours of June 4, 2017 U.S. Army Special Forces Staff Sergeant Logan Melgar was woken up in his room, in the U.S. Embassy housing complex in Bamako, Mali. by the sound of sledgehammers being used to break through his door.
Through the door burst SEAL Team Six members Petty Officer Anthony E. DeDolph and Chief Petty Officer Adam C. Matthews, accompanied by to US Marine Corp Raiders, Gunnery Sgt. Mario Madera-Rodriguez and Staff Sgt. Kevin Maxwell Jr., a Malian guard and a unidentified British man.
DeDolph, a former pro MMA fighter, seized Melgar and put him in a rear naked choke.