Valuetainment - “Looked Like a Coward” - Osama Bin Laden’s Death & The FINAL Shot w⧸ SEAL Team Six's Robert O’Neill

00:00:00.000 So you're there, you're walking in, you've said this before,

00:00:04.020 you've said he looked like a coward when you took him out, right?

00:00:06.760 I think you said he was a coward, he acted like a coward.

00:00:09.540 It reminds me of the speech President Trump gave after, who was it, al-Baghdadi.

00:00:14.040 Yes.

00:00:14.560 He died like a dog.

00:00:15.540 Died like a dog.

00:00:16.060 Like a nice little dog.

00:00:17.200 But he was crying, he was doing this, he died like a coward, you know,

00:00:20.660 and he kept going and going and going, right?

00:00:22.600 With this whole, the video that many of us have seen hundreds of times,

00:00:26.460 it's almost comical when they do it, right?

00:00:29.240 Yeah, when they do it side by side.

00:00:30.300 Yeah, when they do it, and they say, this is how Obama announced the person died

00:00:32.840 and this is how Trump, Trump in 48 minutes, Obama went like eight minutes

00:00:35.680 or whatever it was, and he moves on, right?

00:00:37.880 For you, when you're there, I've heard the stories many different times.

00:00:43.360 I've watched, you know, the podcast that you've done.

00:00:46.140 How much training did you guys do going up into this

00:00:49.440 where the preparation of going in was role-played so many times?

00:00:53.980 Or because you don't know if the guy's moving that many times,

00:00:57.320 it's a lot of audibles.

00:00:58.920 You have to call last minute.

00:01:00.300 It's more audibles reading off of each other.

00:01:03.100 Like when I get asked, how did you guys clear a compound that big?

00:01:06.980 Because we mastered the basics.

00:01:08.180 If you get really good at the easy stuff, you're going to be fine.

00:01:10.440 There's no need to talk yourself into an ass-kicking.

00:01:12.900 So when I get asked that question, how'd you do it?

00:01:14.660 I'm like, well, the guy in front of me went left, I went right,

00:01:16.720 and we just did that over and over.

00:01:18.480 So we were, just because of the combat,

00:01:20.360 when we first started going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq,

00:01:22.560 we just changed our tactics.

00:01:24.020 Because basically before 9-11, there was fighting, you know,

00:01:28.320 Grenada and Panama and a little bit in Desert Storm,

00:01:31.220 but we were using Vietnam tactics.

00:01:32.820 Once we started getting shot at by real people in mountains and deserts,

00:01:35.260 you've got to change everything up.

00:01:36.220 But when we were told this team, who'd been probably 400 combat missions each,

00:01:41.040 but we'd all been working together at least for 10 years each,

00:01:44.240 when they said, when the commanding officer of SEAL Team 6 had us in a room

00:01:47.380 and finally said, the reason you guys are here is because this is as close

00:01:51.840 as we've ever been to Osama bin Laden, the common answer was,

00:01:55.400 cool, can we go right now?

00:01:56.760 Because we didn't need to train for it.

00:01:58.220 Like we're ready to go.

00:01:59.340 We know what we're doing.

00:02:01.040 Obviously the pilots are going to need to know the routes,

00:02:02.860 or they're going to design the routes.

00:02:03.900 They need to know where we're going, what the mountains are.

00:02:05.320 But yeah, we were completely ready for it, and it wasn't –

00:02:07.960 we trained on the outside.

00:02:10.300 They had constructed a compound that looked like the outside

00:02:12.660 so we could get used to seeing what the exterior looked like.

00:02:16.360 But the second anyone tried to say, well, here's what the inside –

00:02:19.260 don't tell me what you think it looks like because it won't.

00:02:21.720 Don't tell me how many men, women, and children are there.

00:02:25.040 Tell me how many people you've seen, and I will figure it out when I get there.

00:02:28.360 It's like if you keep telling me when we go in the front of his house,

00:02:31.620 there's immediately going to be a left-hand turn,

00:02:34.060 that's probably not the case.

00:02:34.980 It'll be a right-hand turn.

00:02:35.760 I don't want to – I don't want to get into a situation.

00:02:37.380 You're saying this right here?

00:02:38.720 Yeah, yeah.

00:02:39.500 So we wanted to know that, and that worked out well

00:02:41.280 because we were supposed to drop part of my team off outside on the north end,

00:02:45.800 and then we were going to the rooftop.

00:02:47.380 But because of the complications with the weather, with the updraft,

00:02:50.700 our pilot just put us off with the snipers again,

00:02:53.140 and we knew from training off to our left is a double door.

00:02:55.340 We'll just go through there and start the war from here. 0.90

00:02:57.840 But if – I don't want you to tell – don't assume anything.

00:03:02.260 My tactics are good.

00:03:03.060 My team is great, and we'll figure it out when we get there.

00:03:06.000 But we trained a lot, and that was more to show the powers that be,

00:03:10.020 this is what we offer because there were different kinds of bombing campaigns.

00:03:13.620 There was a thing called the hammer throw where we've seen a pacer.

00:03:16.060 We can throw one bomb at him and hit him, but that's never going to work

00:03:18.640 because bombs and grenades aren't like Hollywood where one blows up

00:03:22.020 and the whole house comes down and 50 people fly into the ditch.

00:03:24.400 It's like you're going to miss.

00:03:25.120 He's going to run.

00:03:26.420 And even President Obama was so cool.

00:03:28.260 He said, I was never 100% convinced bin Laden was there,

00:03:32.200 but after seeing you, I knew you could show up, find out, and come back.

00:03:35.720 He told you that.

00:03:36.360 He didn't tell me personally.

00:03:37.300 He told us in a room before Campbell, Kentucky, after the raid.

00:03:41.380 And that was just cool that he had that faith,

00:03:44.100 just go find out and come back safely.

00:03:45.820 How many people were in that Fort Campbell meeting?

00:03:48.320 Well, they had the 23 shooters, the air crews, most of the cabinet.

00:03:53.940 Hillary Clinton did not show up.

00:03:55.040 This is post.

00:03:55.900 Yeah, this is after the raid, like a week later.

00:03:58.080 A week later, you're all in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

00:03:59.760 Yeah, it was kind of awkward because a lot of these dudes to this day

00:04:02.280 will never talk, you'll never hear from them.

00:04:03.520 They want to live on a farm and whatever.

00:04:05.620 And then even that night, we're there, and it says SEAL Team 6 kills Osama bin Laden.

00:04:09.700 A lot of guys are uncomfortable.

00:04:10.760 And then all of a sudden, we're doing these dog and pony shows,

00:04:12.820 going everywhere to meet politicians and admirals and generals.

00:04:16.100 And we had an award ceremony in Florida in front of a bunch of people,

00:04:19.980 and guys are kind of like, this isn't good.

00:04:22.920 Yeah, so it was – and then we met President Obama at Fort Campbell

00:04:25.900 after a unit from the Army just got back, probably the 101st up in Campbell.

00:04:29.200 And he met with them, talked to them, and secretively he could come to a room

00:04:33.440 where we were, and that's when he told us that, which is kind of –

00:04:35.980 I mean, he made some good calls that were – they weren't political at all.

00:04:40.520 And it wasn't left or right because, like, Secretary Gates is Republican,

00:04:44.120 obviously more Democrats than Republicans, but they made a decision based on what is

00:04:49.500 the right thing to do.

00:04:50.400 And it was before an election.

00:04:51.760 And even though Zero Dark Thirty was fast, it was after the election.

00:04:54.960 And if we screwed that up like President Carter did in Desert One,

00:04:58.820 you're not getting elected.

00:05:00.440 And so this was not a political choice.

00:05:02.820 Yeah.

00:05:03.200 I mean, listen, the movie is a little too fast to think about how quickly you produce something.

00:05:08.460 Movies take three years, three or five years to make.

00:05:10.500 In 18, 19 months, you have it ready to go, and you got clearance from CIA,

00:05:15.180 from everybody, use some of those, you know, stories.

00:05:18.060 Who knows what was done?

00:05:19.720 I never thought of that either.

00:05:21.140 I mean, do they have stuff in place?

00:05:22.340 They're ready to already – have they recorded it?

00:05:24.200 Well, apparently they'll say it was rewritten, and they had to change the ending,

00:05:28.080 and they were already working on it, and they bumped it up as their number one priority

00:05:31.860 of a movie to make.

00:05:32.660 Who knows?

00:05:33.160 It's just – it's a lot of things that makes you question.

00:05:35.360 But walk me through, you know, when you go in the room and you finally see him, okay,

00:05:41.180 was there an initial shock?

00:05:42.800 Like, oh, shit, we actually found him?

00:05:44.360 Was there like boom, boom, boom, boom?

00:05:45.480 No, it was –

00:05:46.480 Like super fast.

00:05:47.260 It started below the last set of stairs.

00:05:49.900 The woman that found bin Laden was 100% right on every single person in there, 1.00

00:05:53.280 even though no one at the agency believed her, which is crazy.

00:05:56.340 But we're at the last set.

00:05:57.500 The guy in front of me –

00:05:58.140 Who was the woman with CIA? 0.62

00:05:59.340 Yeah.

00:05:59.960 The one the movie was based on.

00:06:00.920 They called her Maya in the movie.

00:06:02.560 In real life, her name is not Maya.

00:06:03.900 Yeah, I promised I would never describe her or say what her name is,

00:06:06.820 but she was that cool, like that good.

00:06:09.420 Why was she that good?

00:06:10.840 I don't know.

00:06:12.040 The best part of the movie Zero Dark Thirty, Jessica Chastain nailed it. 0.98

00:06:15.520 When she sat down to lunch with the director, Leon Panetta,

00:06:19.100 played by James Gandolfini, and he said,

00:06:21.080 what else do you do for us?

00:06:22.140 And she said, nothing.

00:06:23.280 I do this.

00:06:24.780 That was just cool.

00:06:25.760 That kind of describes what she was like.

00:06:27.400 She was there –

00:06:28.200 Did you ever meet her?

00:06:29.280 Oh, yeah.

00:06:29.760 She was the first person that we met when they told us it was bin Laden.

00:06:33.360 What was her personality like?

00:06:35.200 Serious.

00:06:35.980 I didn't want you guys anyway.

00:06:37.600 I wanted to bomb this.

00:06:38.360 I know he's there 100%.

00:06:39.260 We'd get done training on that site for 12 hours.

00:06:42.820 Then we'd go back to our rooms,

00:06:44.560 and we'd all stand around a two-scale model that someone had built of bin Laden's house.

00:06:48.460 We would talk about the perfect plan.

00:06:50.220 We'd discuss contingencies.

00:06:51.560 And every night, she would say something similar to,

00:06:53.400 okay, guys, right now Osama bin Laden is on the third floor of this house.

00:06:56.680 Don't understand why we're not going?

00:06:58.220 Have a good night.

00:06:58.820 See you tomorrow.

00:06:59.400 No shit.

00:06:59.860 Yeah, she knew it.

00:07:00.820 And it was the whole –

00:07:01.860 Who told her?

00:07:02.600 What gave her that kind of confidence?

00:07:03.860 Her team?

00:07:04.760 Or was she a one-man show?

00:07:06.400 Was she like a – 0.90

00:07:07.180 No, it was a team.

00:07:08.000 It was actually a team mostly of women. 1.00

00:07:10.780 And they were working everything from Pakistan, from Afghanistan, from the States.

00:07:14.480 I ran a – I was running the outstations in Afghanistan.

00:07:18.560 So we had all these stations on the border to run sources.

00:07:20.400 In early of 2011, my 12th deployment, at an agency base, I think the targeting team for bin Laden was there,

00:07:28.380 and I didn't even know they were there.

00:07:29.880 We were at a point there – like, I would do battlefield interrogations on al-Qaeda guys on target.

00:07:34.160 And in between, like, who were the men in the house?

00:07:36.160 What are their names?

00:07:36.680 What are they doing?

00:07:37.140 Blah, blah, blah.

00:07:37.480 I would just sneak in.

00:07:38.740 Where's Osama bin Laden?

00:07:39.720 And we would both laugh at each other, both of them, me and a terrorist.

00:07:42.420 Because, like, no one knows.

00:07:44.260 He's gone.

00:07:44.800 And the agency women are right there, and they know it. 1.00

00:07:47.980 They're just not saying anything.

00:07:48.840 Like, it was almost to the point where the problem with a lot of these, like, SEAL Team 6 and the agency

00:07:54.440 is that they make too many movies about us making us look cool.

00:07:57.660 We're not that cool.

00:07:58.480 Well, this team was that cool, the agency team.

00:08:00.640 They were that cool.

00:08:01.500 So when we met her, she just – every night she would say stuff like that.

00:08:05.280 She wanted to kill them.

00:08:06.180 Because if we hit them with the Air Force's plan, like 22 JDAMs, Joint Direct Action Munitions, 2,000-pound bombs,

00:08:12.800 no one's ever going to find out.

00:08:15.120 She was like, we don't need the DNA.

00:08:16.600 I'm telling you who's there.

00:08:17.480 We can kill them.

00:08:17.960 And so she got to the point where the very first day after she was introduced,

00:08:23.280 she had a PowerPoint brief explaining to us how she and the team found them.

00:08:28.900 And it got to the point where, like, look, we just believe you.

00:08:31.480 I don't need to hear this anymore.

00:08:33.240 He's there.

00:08:33.880 And so we were – I was 100% sure.

00:08:37.540 So at the end, going up the last set of stairs with one guy in front of me, it wasn't a bravery thing on my part.

00:08:42.940 Because the guy in front of me had taken a shot before I got there.

00:08:46.080 And I got there as a two-man.

00:08:47.400 How many seconds before you heard a shot you got up there?

00:08:50.580 Oh, seconds.

00:08:51.580 Because when we went up the –

00:08:52.780 Boom, boom, boom, you go up.

00:08:54.120 Well, no, he took the shots before –

00:08:56.220 I know.

00:08:56.440 What I'm saying is he takes the shot.

00:08:58.620 You're automatically – why is he shooting?

00:09:00.280 Let me go to where he's at.

00:09:01.200 Well, the guys behind him – I was about eight back, seven back.

00:09:04.520 They started clearing the second floor.

00:09:05.940 His job is the number one man is pointing up.

00:09:07.760 So he shot before I got to him.

00:09:08.860 Why did he shoot?

00:09:09.540 What did he shoot at?

00:09:10.160 He saw some faces behind a curtain at the top of the stairs.

00:09:13.080 He saw something –

00:09:14.000 And you were instructed, if you see it, take the shot.

00:09:15.780 Well, I mean, if you see Bin Laden, we're going to shoot. 0.96

00:09:17.920 Unless he came out of the shower hands up, like, naked.

00:09:20.640 We're going to kill him.

00:09:21.220 He's a suicide bomber.

00:09:21.900 He's got to be.

00:09:22.920 So I got to him, and my job is to –

00:09:25.600 I want more because Bin Laden's up there.

00:09:27.460 And I want two more dudes. 1.00

00:09:28.340 I want four dudes. 1.00

00:09:29.300 I'll take two.

00:09:30.240 And I'm ready to squeeze.

00:09:31.060 And he just started saying to me –

00:09:32.880 didn't know it was me.

00:09:33.580 He knows it was one of his guys.

00:09:34.360 Like, we got to get up there.

00:09:36.160 Not talking so much, but there's movements because those are the suicide bombers.

00:09:40.240 We can beat them.

00:09:41.260 We got to go now.

00:09:42.640 And for me, it wasn't bravery.

00:09:44.480 It was like, I want to get this over with.

00:09:46.500 I'm fucking tired of thinking about this.

00:09:48.240 And I squeezed him, and we went through the stairs.

00:09:49.840 And he ended up tackling two people that he thought were suicide bombers,

00:09:54.420 which to me is amazing.

00:09:55.400 Do you see?

00:09:55.840 The guy in front of me.

00:09:57.140 So he jumped on –

00:09:59.620 I mean, this is Medal of Honor shit right here.

00:10:02.120 Because I know we're going to blow up in the room.

00:10:03.620 He jumps on people he assumes we're putting on vests.

00:10:05.660 Wow.

00:10:05.840 And because – again, left, right.

00:10:07.120 He went this way.

00:10:07.620 I turn here.

00:10:08.220 Here's Bin Laden standing there.

00:10:09.220 And he's holding – he's holding his wife up.

00:10:13.100 She was wounded.

00:10:14.280 And I saw him, and I was like, he's taller than I thought.

00:10:18.600 He's skinnier.

00:10:19.060 His beard's white.

00:10:19.900 That's his nose.

00:10:20.500 He's not surrendering.

00:10:21.200 And all you need to do for – to set off a suicide vest that you're wearing

00:10:25.480 is have the leads right here and just touch them.

00:10:27.760 So you can do the whole, yeah, I surrender.

00:10:29.360 Boom.

00:10:29.840 And it's fast.

00:10:30.560 I've seen suicide bombers.

00:10:32.160 And they're very fast, very permanent, and scary, and loud,

00:10:36.100 and I'm not dealing with that.

00:10:36.820 Like, when I went up there, I was like, let's get it over with.

00:10:38.340 I see him.

00:10:38.680 I blast him.

00:10:39.380 Shoot him again because, again, not like the movies.

00:10:42.240 Shooting someone in the chest, they have a will to live,

00:10:43.900 and they might survive.

00:10:44.780 With a suicide bomber, especially as a sniper, you aim for the mouth,

00:10:47.780 aim for the forehead. 1.00

00:10:48.420 You've got to cut him down.

00:10:49.360 And that's just what I did with him.

00:10:50.400 And then moved the wife out of the way, and Bin Laden's at the bottom of the bed, too. 0.96

00:10:55.640 And even with, you know, I'm kind of going off the story here.

00:11:00.760 I love to talk about the humanity of people everywhere.

00:11:05.160 Most people in a combat zone are not combatants.

00:11:09.180 At this moment, after I shot Bin Laden and moved his wife, 1.00

00:11:11.440 I looked down, and his two-year-old son, Hussein, was there.

00:11:13.840 And I'm a father.

00:11:15.160 And I remember my first thought in Bin Laden's house was, 0.98

00:11:18.080 this poor kid has nothing to do with this.

00:11:20.660 You know, it's almost like, what is going on here?

00:11:22.280 Then I move them, and I turn around.

00:11:24.920 I'm going to go back and get the pictures,

00:11:26.200 but I sort of hesitate just for a second,

00:11:28.100 because we're going to die, but shit. 0.91

00:11:30.160 And one of my guys, the other COs,

00:11:31.720 I was the only guy in his room for a couple of seconds.

00:11:35.380 Other guys were coming in, and one of my guys stopped me,

00:11:37.580 and he goes, hey, you good?

00:11:38.320 And I said, what do we do now?

00:11:40.980 And he said, now we find the computers.

00:11:42.340 We do this every night, man, hundreds of times.

00:11:43.880 I said, you're right.

00:11:44.480 Holy shit.

00:11:45.020 And he goes, yeah, you just killed Osama Bin Laden.

00:11:47.020 Your life just changed.

00:11:47.740 Get to work.

00:11:49.640 Is he the commander?

00:11:51.480 No.

00:11:51.760 Were you reporting to him?

00:11:52.920 No, no, no.

00:11:53.600 He was another dude coming in the room.

00:11:55.180 So I'm assuming most guys got into the room eventually.

00:11:57.880 So this was one of the guys from my team.

00:12:00.920 Obviously, I'm not going to say who.

00:12:02.580 But he's a SEAL Team 6.

00:12:03.580 Yeah, yeah.

00:12:03.860 These were all, at this point, these are all SEAL Team 6 guys.

00:12:05.840 Out of everybody that went in, you guys are all SEAL Team 6?

00:12:08.520 Yeah.

00:12:09.180 Okay.

00:12:09.540 That's the 89-90, or how many people total was that?

00:12:13.760 On the mission, 23.

00:12:15.420 23.

00:12:16.300 And then there's another.

00:12:17.240 Well, we had one guy that wasn't, and I still don't know who he was,

00:12:19.840 but he spoke fluent Urdu without an accent, which I think is just badass.

00:12:24.160 There's some dude that he can carry a gun.

00:12:25.980 He's really good.

00:12:26.500 He's a shooter.

00:12:27.080 He speaks Urdu.

00:12:27.840 He's an American.

00:12:28.380 It's like, I want to know who this dude is because that's, like,

00:12:30.380 there's a guy that, it shouldn't be talking about the guys that killed Bin Laden.

00:12:32.860 That was easy.

00:12:33.620 Go shoot a guy.

00:12:34.260 Who's this dude?

00:12:35.480 That's awesome.

00:12:36.840 So you kill him.

00:12:38.600 The wife is not dead yet.

00:12:40.440 No.

00:12:40.680 She didn't die.

00:12:41.320 She didn't die.

00:12:42.120 The son is how old then?

00:12:44.140 He was two.

00:12:44.940 I think Khalid on the stairs was 19 or 20.

00:12:48.000 Khalid on the stairs were 19 or 20.

00:12:50.240 The son is two.

00:12:51.420 That son today is 16 years old.

00:12:53.620 Do you have any nightmares of thinking about that kid coming after you?

00:12:56.180 I don't have nightmares about him.

00:12:58.720 I honestly, and again, this is me being an optimist,

00:13:01.800 I hope he has learned, like, this is not the way to go.

00:13:05.400 I mean, and again, like, I'm not looking for it.

00:13:07.960 And, you know, if they come looking for me,

00:13:09.940 the next guy I kill will be in my own house.

00:13:11.400 I don't want it to come to that.

00:13:13.020 But I know how to deal with him.

00:13:14.640 And it just, it is what it is.

00:13:15.940 I mean, because I'd heard, again, rumors.

00:13:18.000 I'd heard that Bin Laden was even talking to his kids

00:13:20.520 about don't get into this line of work.

00:13:22.220 I've heard Noor Bin Laden, I think it was his cousin,

00:13:24.900 who said something similar to,

00:13:27.100 well, if you line up 10 members of any family,

00:13:28.800 there's going to be an asshole. 0.72

00:13:29.720 He was ours.

00:13:30.700 So I don't know.

00:13:31.500 I mean, I don't want a Bin Laden showing up in New York, 1.00

00:13:34.120 but it is what it is.

00:13:35.760 What is the kid's name?

00:13:36.880 The two-year-old at the time?

00:13:38.140 I think it's Hussein. 0.96

00:13:39.700 Hussein Bin Laden.

00:13:40.820 I believe so.

00:13:41.880 So Hussein Bin Laden, can you pull him up? 0.90

00:13:43.940 Hussein Bin Laden, he is born in 2008, which makes sense.

00:13:51.220 Wife.

00:13:52.000 So Hussein Bin Laden, can you go on his account,

00:13:54.140 on his profile?

00:13:55.660 If we go to him, what did the FBI say about him?

00:13:59.300 FBI said nothing.

00:14:00.000 It's just Osama Bin Laden. 0.92

00:14:01.720 Family background, Hussein Bin Laden was famous.

00:14:03.380 He said no one has the elder brother of Osama Bin Laden.

00:14:05.000 No, that's a different one.

00:14:06.120 That's a different one.

00:14:07.100 We're talking about the one that was there.

00:14:08.160 Okay, and let me ask, at the time when this happened

00:14:12.380 and you took out Bin Laden, is he the first 10 people 0.92

00:14:17.180 you've killed in New York?

00:14:17.800 No, no, no.

00:14:18.360 Or you've been there many times?

00:14:19.460 Oh, yeah, a lot.

00:14:20.520 He wasn't the last guy I killed with that gun.

00:14:22.820 He wasn't the last guy?

00:14:23.680 I did another deployment because we did the Bin Laden raid 0.99

00:14:27.180 on May 1st, May 2nd, 2011, and we went through an emotional

00:14:31.080 rollercoaster with, hey, we did it, then our names are,

00:14:33.160 not our names, but the SEAL Team 6 is out.

00:14:35.560 But it's a high because we chopped the head off the snake,

00:14:39.300 and then in August, Extortion 17 was shot down.

00:14:42.280 We lost 30 guys, 30 Americans. 0.91

00:14:45.860 What was that all about?

00:14:46.540 That's a very weird story.

00:14:47.660 Right, and that's where the conspiracies come in.

00:14:49.760 Because people don't, it was months apart, and they say,

00:14:52.720 well, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had SEAL Team 6 killed

00:14:55.100 to shut them up, which is ridiculous.

00:14:56.580 But if you don't mind kind of going through this,

00:14:58.540 because it was the single biggest event of the most, you know,

00:15:06.680 people getting killed, not Tier 1, you know,

00:15:10.940 soldiers getting killed on an operation,

00:15:12.500 and it was the shots fired came down from who?

00:15:17.260 The bad guys?

00:15:18.380 The resultant killed 38 people and a military working dog on board,

00:15:23.920 including 17 U.S. Navy SEAL, two U.S. Air Force para-rescue,

00:15:29.760 and you had a couple combat patrol.

00:15:31.580 I mean, this was huge.

00:15:33.260 This was huge.

00:15:34.080 Well, I talked to some of the guys involved.

00:15:36.960 Actually, we backfilled them at Ford Operating Base Shank,

00:15:40.420 where they took off from, and there was a conversation between,

00:15:44.720 I want to say Jonas Kelsall, who was a commanding officer,

00:15:46.720 and Lou Langlis, who was the master chief,

00:15:49.480 because they're going in on a quick reaction force, which is dangerous,

00:15:52.820 and they knew where they were going in the Tangi Valley,

00:15:55.140 and they normally have two helicopters,

00:15:56.780 but they said something along the lines of,

00:15:59.080 the second one's definitely going to get shot down.

00:16:00.740 The first one might not, so they put everybody on one helicopter.

00:16:03.700 And it had nothing to do with the Bin Laden raid,

00:16:05.260 but people want to, just because it was SEAL Team 6,

00:16:07.880 everyone from the Bin Laden raid is still alive.

00:16:09.800 But we lost the best guys we had on Extortion 17.

00:16:13.640 We look at those dudes, that's a, I mean, not quite a thousand years,

00:16:16.360 but hundreds of years of combat experience, you can't get back.

00:16:19.620 So anyway, I did go back-to-back with them with a different squadron,

00:16:23.280 and I finished up in Afghanistan in 2012.

00:16:26.180 Hey, what is up?

00:16:26.940 This is Robert J. O'Neill, former SEAL Team 6 operators.

00:16:30.240 I was fortunate to be on some of the most high-profile missions

00:16:32.660 in our very long War on Terror.

00:16:35.060 But I am now on Menecht, and you can connect with me there,

00:16:39.220 and we can literally talk about anything.

00:16:41.280 You can text, we can do video calls, I can give you messages.

00:16:45.100 And, you know, go to Menecht, find me.

00:16:47.340 Literally nothing is off-limits.

00:16:48.900 Any crazy questions you have that you may or may not want the answers to,

00:16:52.400 I am more than happy to do it.

00:16:53.420 So find me on Menecht.

00:16:54.380 Again, this is Robert J. O'Neill.

00:16:56.480 See you there.

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Valuetainment - September 11, 2025

“Looked Like a Coward” - Osama Bin Laden’s Death & The FINAL Shot w⧸ SEAL Team Six's Robert O’Neill

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