how have things changed and are these the type of conversations that you have? oh, yeah, all the time. when i started flying in them. we actually used the less fuel navigation. wow, using stars to actually find your way around. that s right. that was back in the early 80s and prior to that, we used radar navigation, and a concept called dead reckoning. we didn t have the global position systems on air today that allow the very precision strikes. so it s changed quite a bit. clayton: now when you talk to your dad about the technology on board. what do you think? you get to play with the newfangled gadgets and don t have to look at the stars anymore to find my way home. we ve got a lot of new development for sure and talked about earlier, with the precision weapons and a pod that we can use, laser guided weapons for as well as gps as well, too. changed a little bit from the
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landing into the compound. there are many courtyards in that compound and before they left, the seals had to detonate explosives to leave to make sure that that helicopter was not and the valuable technology on board was not left behind. that likely set off fires at the compound because a lot of those compounds are heated by natural gas. what we understand is they approached very quickly. one of the combatants grabbed a woman as a human shield. she was killed. they shouted to one of the noncombatants, is that osama bin laden? quickly, he was identified. they gave him a chance to surrender. he resisted. and within moments, he was shot in the head. he is the only body of the five people killed at the compound, the only body that was taken away in the helicopters, the seal helicopters that landed outside the compound and the three that returned back to