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The operator firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden and my years as a SEAL Team warrior

SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's 400 career missions included attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips. It culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin...

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Main Author: O'Neill, Robert, 1976- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Scribner, 2017.
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
O'Neill, Robert, > 1976-
Luttrell, Marcus.
Phillips, Richard, > 1955-
Bin Laden, Osama, > 1957-2011 > Assassination.
Piracy > Somalia.
Special operations (Military science) > United States > History > 21st century.
Special operations (Military science) > Pakistan.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Personal narratives, American.
Afghan War, 2001- > Commando operations > United States.
Afghan War, 2001- > Personal narratives, American.
Butte (Mont.) > History.
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Summary: SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's 400 career missions included attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips. It culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. Now O'Neill describes his idyllic childhood in Butte, Montana; his impulsive decision to join the SEALs; the arduous evaluation and training process; and the even tougher gauntlet he had to run to join the SEALS' most elite unit. After officially becoming a SEAL, O'Neill would spend more than a decade in the most intense counterterror effort in U.S. history. For extended periods, not a night passed without him and his small team recording multiple enemy kills. The Operator describes the nonstop action of O'Neill's deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, evokes the black humor of years-long combat, brings to vivid life the lethal efficiency of the military's most selective units, and reveals firsthand details of the most celebrated terrorist takedown in history.
Item Description: Includes index.
Physical Description: ix, 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781501145032
1501145037
Author Notes: Robert O'Neill was born and raised in Butte, Montana, and lived there for nineteen years until he joined the Navy in 1996. Deploying as a SEAL more than a dozen times, O'Neill participated in more than four-hundred combat missions across four different theaters of war. During his remarkable career, he was decorated more than fifty-two times. Among the honors he received were two Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars with Valor, a Joint Service Commendation Medal with Valor, three Presidential Unit Citations, and a Navy/Marine Corps Commendation with Valor .

O'Neill helped cofound Your Grateful Nation, an organization committed to transitioning Special Operations veterans into their next successful career. You can find him at RobertJONeill.com.

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