my guys got one of our guys into a spot to take the shot. the analysts that found him, working for years, they deserve the credit. the pilots that got us there, the guys on the ground that physically got people into place by blowing up doors, breaking down stuff, moving, holding security, and then finally, someone gets a shot. this wasn t just definitely it wasn t me. it wasn t the team. this was the country. this was the entire country. we were just the means to an end. rob served one more deployment in afghanistan but then decided it was time to leave the military. i stopped getting adrenaline at gunfights, and that s dangerous. you can get complacent. if someone would shoot us, we would go up to them and finish, you know, we would eliminate the threat. i realized that kind of careless not carelessness but complacency could potentially get me killed, and i want to be around for a while. so, it was a long, hard process, but i was done with 12 deployments, a couple contingenci
this is not about me. my guys got one of our guys into a spot to take the shot. the analysts that found him, working for years, they deserve the credit. the pilots that got us there, the guys on the ground that physically got people into place by blowing up doors, breaking down stuff, moving, holding security, and then finally, someone gets a shot. this wasn t just definitely it wasn t me. it wasn t the team. this was the country. this was the entire country. we were just the means to an end. rob served one more deployment in afghanistan but then decided it was time to leave the military. i stopped getting adrenaline at gunfights, and that s dangerous. you can get complacent. if someone would shoot us, we would go up to them and finish, you know, we would eliminate the threat. i realized that kind of careless not carelessness but complacency could potentially get me killed, and i want to be around for a while. so, it was a long, hard process, but i was done with 12 deploymen
all did. w why didn t you just say i did it? it s not about me. our guys got the guys in spot to take the shot, the guys on the ground that physically got people into place by blowing up doors, breaking down stuff, moving, security and finally someone gets a shot. i mean, this wasn t definitely wasn t me. it wasn t the team. this was the country. this was the entire country. rob served one more deployment in afghanistan but then decided it was time to leave the military. i stopped getting adrenaline in gunfights, and that s dangerous. you can get complacent. someone go up and you know, we would eliminate the threat. that careless not carelessness but complacency could get me killed and i want to be around for a while. it was a long hard process. but i was done.
enemy s going to shoot. they begin methodically room by room the first floor they work as a team. as they enter a floor they begin looking through rooms where there are potential threats. so they peel off and clear room by room by room. this is all happening very rapidly. i remember there s a girl in our room, a little girl, crying. and i had a guy i was sort of holding down, i had a guy take my spot, i went and grabbed her and walked her across the hallway to find a woman to give the girl to. because even in the heat of something that important, that moment we re the good guys. and we don t want her to be anymore afraid than she needs to be because she has nothing to do with this. so people are going around making sure kids are huddled with parents. and the hallway s a barricade to a door. the steel door locked going to a staircase up the second floor. they blew that door and began up the narrow staircase to the
leader of al qaeda. and i stopped listening right there. i hear him say usama bin laden. and then i look at usama bin laden. and literally wonder how in the world did i get here from montana. then we re watching and guys start to say out loud, say no one was hurt, tell them no one was hurt. our families need to know no one was hurt. a small team of americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. no americans were harmed. when did you realize that the entire country basically broke out in patriotism? star spangled banner yet waves i don t know who the guy is, but whomever was hanging from the light post in manhattan, who d obviously had a few cocktails, he made me realize it s a big deal. i mean, usa chants outside the