03136cam a2200433 i 4500 1164592691 TxAuBib 20170711120000.0 170221s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017007867 9781501145032 hardcover 1501145037 hardcover (OCoLC)974213183 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCQ JTH OQX GL4 BUR TxAuBib rda O'Neill, Robert, 1976-, author. The operator : firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden and my years as a SEAL Team warrior / Robert O'Neill. Firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden and my years as a SEAL Team warrior. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2017. ©2017. ix, 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. "A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and which culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. In these pages, 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 US history. For extended periods, not a night passed without him and his small team recording multiple enemy kills--and though he was lucky enough to survive, several of the SEALS he'd trained with and fought beside never made it home. 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."--Jacket. 20170711. O'Neill, Robert 1976- Bin Laden, Osama 1957-2011 Assassination. United States Navy SEALs Biography. United States Navy SEALs History 21st century. 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) Biography. TXKIP