actual guy? it wasn t real. it was another guy in a house that we shot. it didn t sink in. it didn t sink in for a while. has it sunk in now? yeah, it has now. i ve thought about it every day for a number of years. i m still trying to figure out if it s the best thing i ve ever done or the worst thing i ve ever done. how could it be the best? we accomplished our mission, and i was a big part of it. i was a part of it. and how could it be the worst? i don t know what s gonna happen. and it s something i have to live with every day. before the war on terror and the hunt for usama bin laden took rob to the farthest reaches of the globe, the quiet mining town of butte, montana, was home. this is where his story begins. rob o neill had a normal childhood. he played basketball for butte central catholic high school, worked odd jobs around
his face on them. yeah. what was it like to kill the actual guy? it wasn t real. it was another guy in a house we shot. it didn t sink in. it didn t sink in for a while. has it sunk in now? yeah, it has now. i ve thought about it every day for a number of years. i m still trying to figure out if it s the worst or best thing i ve ever done. how is it the best? we accomplished the mission and i was a big part of it. i was a part of it. how could it be the worst? i don t know what s going to happen. and that s something i have to live with every day. before the war on terror and the hunt for osama bin laden, took rob to the furthest reaches of the globe, the quiet mining town of butte, montana, was home. this is where his story begins. rob o neill had a normal chide
explain why. did you think they wouldn t understand? no, the kids probably wouldn t. eventually they would. they would have for their whole lives. yes. that piece of paper would be the last advice they ever got. yes. from their dad. yes. what d you say? like i talked about their weddings. you know, wishing them happiness, take care of their mom. there were some apologies in there. the first thing i did when i got home was shred it. i don t know if i m happy about that. but, you know, they re gone. why d you shred them? i didn t want anybody reading them. why not? it didn t happen.
and he is the man who killed osama bin laden. what was it like to kill the actual guy? it didn t sink in for a while. has it sunk in now? yeah, it has now. i thought about it every day. everyone watched that special, peter. i noticed a consistent thing there was a lot of your hair blowing around. we re going to have the fan in here next hour. we want to know more about you. what do you love to do in your free time in washington? faith thing to do if i have an afternoon or our schedules being kind of strange sometimes like an evening during the week love to go to the nats games in washington. it s hard in new york to actually get to yankees stadium or to get to citi field. but to go to nats park there you see, there is nobody around me. it s very, very fun. love baseball. you re a big yankee fan? i still have a yankees key on my key chain. this next fun fact i
it didn t happen. instead of something horrible happening something great happened. before you left you also called your dad. i did. he was the last person i called. i was actually in my gear getting ready to launch. i called him to say good-bye and thanks for everything. the interesting part of the conversation i don t know what he is doing. as i look back on it i get choked up. going into it they might be heading to some deserted island to do something fairly benign if that s ever possible with seal team 6 guys. so i really don t know what he is up to but he is calling me last. i know he s telling me he is boarding a bird i am the last one he calls and he s checking in. kind of thanking me for a lot of things but just checking in. i couldn t say what was going on.