AndyC wrote:Instead of 72 virgins, he got 24 Virginians :)
Edit to explain - DevGru aka Seal Team 6 is based in Virginia, hence... ok, never mine, I'll get my coat
Lol. Smooth.
Don't know about y'all, but I'm ready for some pics. I
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- Mon May 02, 2011 11:22 pm
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Lol. Smooth.
Don't know about y'all, but I'm ready for some pics. I
- Mon May 02, 2011 2:42 pm
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Forgive the typos, Im using an iPad and sitting in class. I hate typing on this thing.....
- Mon May 02, 2011 2:40 pm
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Hey guys, I was reading these posts and sounds like some of y'all are curious as to some of the events. I'm Navy SWCC, and have been on countless operations with SEAL's, and last night I talked with a buddy of mine who is part of Team 6's sister team.
First, we needed a body for proof because we all know that no body=no death. We used SEALs because they are exceptional operators, rarely unsuccessful, and are one of the few squads we could use on an operation of this proportion. It is possible to have a 40 minute firefight withoutnauthorities being alerted for a couple of reasons : the compound was huge, and the majority of the firefight occurred indoors, also shots being fired is no big deal over there-it's fairly uncommon. Also, Pakistan authorities were let in on the loop the second that SEALs touched down.
Osama was killed for "resisting", with a single head shot. Think what ya want, but I can tell you that any time we went on a mission for a HVT, the orders were usually kill orders. You may think that's ridiculous, but you see what's going on over at Gitmo- we have hundreds of prisoners that we can't do anything with because of political reasons, we don't want to risk Osama stuck in Gitmo for ten years only to be released.
According to my buddy it was a clean, fast op. No casualties on our part, and only one woman was killed-it's common to use women as shields becausenof a myth that Americans won't risk collateral damage to win a firefight. They were wrong, and the woman was apparently killed by the guy who was holding her before he was smoked. Unfortunately, I haven't learned who pulled the trigger on Osama, and most likely I won't find that out. If it were my guess, it wasn't even one of our SEALs. We take CIA with us on these missions, mostly because they have all the intel, and are responsible for identifying the target. Read between the lines.
This is the info I was given.
First, we needed a body for proof because we all know that no body=no death. We used SEALs because they are exceptional operators, rarely unsuccessful, and are one of the few squads we could use on an operation of this proportion. It is possible to have a 40 minute firefight withoutnauthorities being alerted for a couple of reasons : the compound was huge, and the majority of the firefight occurred indoors, also shots being fired is no big deal over there-it's fairly uncommon. Also, Pakistan authorities were let in on the loop the second that SEALs touched down.
Osama was killed for "resisting", with a single head shot. Think what ya want, but I can tell you that any time we went on a mission for a HVT, the orders were usually kill orders. You may think that's ridiculous, but you see what's going on over at Gitmo- we have hundreds of prisoners that we can't do anything with because of political reasons, we don't want to risk Osama stuck in Gitmo for ten years only to be released.
According to my buddy it was a clean, fast op. No casualties on our part, and only one woman was killed-it's common to use women as shields becausenof a myth that Americans won't risk collateral damage to win a firefight. They were wrong, and the woman was apparently killed by the guy who was holding her before he was smoked. Unfortunately, I haven't learned who pulled the trigger on Osama, and most likely I won't find that out. If it were my guess, it wasn't even one of our SEALs. We take CIA with us on these missions, mostly because they have all the intel, and are responsible for identifying the target. Read between the lines.
This is the info I was given.