Posted on 02/11/2013 7:37:35 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
The Navy SEAL who claims he shot and killed Osama bin Laden in the famous raid which captured America's most wanted terrorist has spoken for the first time about the moment he shot the al Qaeda three times in the head and watched him take his last breath. The Team Six member - who is referred to as 'The Shooter' for the safety of his family - described in unforgettable detail the days leading up to the kill, the moment he shot bin Laden three times and the fallout from the raid. Once they were given their mission, the woman at the CIA - made famous by Jessica Chastain's portrayal in Zero Dark Thirty - told the team bin Laden was '100 per cent on the third floor' of his compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan. 'We got him,' she told us. 'This is him. This is my life's work. I'm positive.'
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And it appears from the article that he voluntarily left after 16 years. It sucks but he knew the rules long before he decided to pull chocks.
I thought deBummer claimed “He Got Bin Laden” seems as if he has mentioned it numerous times (100s of times)
The late Sgt Doaks of Dexter referred to it as a “Mozambique”.
“Double tap is now triple tap?”
Sounds good to me!
He wasn’t trying to make a buck and write a book like some of the other SEALs, but trying to raise awareness of the lack of saftey net for the special ops community.
Some left with just 3 or 4 years until retirement. I guess they just didn’t want to do any more missions, but you’d think that the Navy could find them a nice desk job somewhere for a couples of years.
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