Will anyone be surprised if Obama’s people leak the SEAL’s actual name and home address? I hope not, but with Obama, it would not shock me.
The seals will take care of their own.
Evidently someone has. Fox News this morning gave his real name (can't remember what it was, but it wasn't “Mark Owen”) and said he lives in Alaska.
There is an article on The Blaze today http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/author-of-no-easy-day-ostracized-from-seal-team-6/
that talks about the author. The writer of this article claims he knows the author of “No Easy Day”, and the author was “tormented” over whether or not to write the book. Now, the author of “No Easy Day” is ostracised from the rest of the team.
Author's Website
Editor’s Note: This guest commentary comes from Brandon Webb, president and executive media director of www.SOFREP.com, a Web site devoted to coverage of the U.S. and Allied Special Operations Community. Webb also is author of “The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America’s Deadliest Marksmen.”
There’s blood in the water and the media sharks are hungry with the book “No Easy Day,” authored by a former DEVGRU Operator who was a team leader on the raid that killed UBL.
“The Admiral (SEAL) has locked down all media projects until further notice”- A SEAL Master chief recently told SOFREP.
Writing tell all books of this rare nature can come with tempting seven-figure contracts. It’s easy to sit back and say this SEAL operator sold out for big money, but before you judge maybe walk a mile in his shoes. More on this later.
The flipside is that I know the “No Easy Day” author personally, and am aware that he was tormented over whether to write this book under the auspice of selling out the community. Operators have already clearly stated this and at least one DEVGRU operator was quoted in Jack Murphy’s post.
The New York Times also falsely reported that the SEAL author is retired. He did not retire – he honorably separated in 2011 with no retirement benefits, and he has a family.
Thirteen deployments, over ten years of service, no retirement benefits, and a family to support. Put a seven-figure book deal on the table and you’d have to ask yourself, “what would I do?”
Please click here to read the rest of Brandon Webb’s post on www.SOFREP.com.
Stinking FoxNews...What the .....
The author of a recently announced insider account of the raid that killed Usama bin Laden has been identified to Fox News as a 36-year-old former Navy SEAL Team 6 member from Alaska who also played a role in the high-profile rescue of an American captain kidnapped by Somali pirates.
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