I forgot a few sources, mostly books:
SEAL of Honor by Gary Williams
Victory Point by Ed Darack
Run to the Sound of the Guns: An army ranger at war in Iraq and Afghanistan by Nick Moore and Mir Bahmanyar
Lone Survivor was used to contrast good information with bad information
Lest We Forget by Leo Jenkins has a few paragraphs about the recovery of Axelson's body. Jenkins makes some serious assumptions about Axelson despite acknowledging he never saw the man's body; it was recovered by SEALs from Team 10. To the best of my limited research none of these SEALs apart from one ever talked about recovering Axelson's body. I didn't bookmark the interview with this guy because he basically just said what Jenkins wrote: a villager asked for and recieved money to lead them to Axelson's corpse which was located in a shallow grave on the outskirts of Salar Ban.
completely non graphic footage from Shah
A bunch of podcasts with dudes on Operation Red Wings 2 the recovery mission for Red Wings that I never bookmarked. There was a hilarious one with a Greenie Beenie named Travis Osborn who told a riveting tale of getting lost on Sawtalo Sar and covered in donkey shit. He didn't really add anything to overarching narrative so I didn't bookmark it.
There's a Marine Corps Gazette article mentioned by Darack that discusses what a complete clusterfuck the command and control of Operation Red Wings and the recovery mission was. I found the article on an extremely sketchy website so I'm not linking it. I could not locate it on the wayback machine. Basically Colonel McMannis, the co writer, states that the command and control of the operation was bad even by JROTC standards.
I almost forgot to mention the Ed Darack interviews. Darack did 2 interviews with The Team House and 1 with Former Action Guys podcast. A shoutout to the hoosier gyrene who runs Former Action Guys. Don't know the dude, was not a gyrene but in my opinion it's the realest military pod out there. In one of his interview Darack claimed Lt. Murphy's insertion point ended up being within 100 yards (90 meters), yes 100 yards, of the hideout Shah was using. He provided no evidence for this claim but I give it credence based on the fact that Shah found the SEALs insertion rope.
Darack also mentioned that he'll be releasing more information about the mission at some point in the future. He intimated that the families of many of the men who died during Red Wings are pretty fucking pissed at Marcus and want the truth to come out. I'd guess that Axelson's family is pretty fucking pissed that Marcus, the team medic, didn't fucking help Axelson during the retreat. I picked up a few photos from
https://matthewaxelson.com/ I could not find the book anywhere for free and I'm not paying for it.
leo jenkins has done a lot of pods but he almost always regurgitates what he wrote in his book
Nicholas Moore has done a few pods. During pods Moore is way nicer to Marcus than he was in the book with one exception that makes it clear that the unflattering things he said about Marcus were in fact his own words and not the ghost writer using him as a sock puppet.
Dr. Tony
Huge Brooks wrote a book called
Leave No Man Behind in which he recounted the story of looking for a ring to send to the newly widowed wife of one of the men who died aboard Turbine 33.
A devgru SEAL named Boyd Renner did an interview with Global Recon Podcast, episode 103. He didn't really have anything interesting to say apart from the fact that he considered the red wings recovery mission to be the only worthwhile thing he did in his 28 years as a SEAL (a whooping 23 at devgru). Really tells you all you need to know about devgru in my opinion.
It's kinda funny how he ended up proving the mod for r/navyseals right in the reply, by having a meltdown out at the suggestion that in the Rangers might not be that good.