Learn to count to keep my mind occupied. Im counting 0 to 1,000 and 1,000 to 0. 80 minutes into the 90minute flight we bank to the south and im counting 556, 557, 558. As im counting for some reason i remember to quote from george w. Bush on 9 11 freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward. And freedom will be defended. And i kind of got goose bumps and how in the world did i just remember that . And i then i thought forget counting. I started to say that over and over again. Freedom was attacked this morning. After weeks of training 82 minutes into the training, im like, im on this mission and were going to kill him. For god and country. Geronimo. Good evening. Im peter doocy. Over the next two nights, you will meet one of americas bravest warriors. For more than a decade he served through multiple wars and Dangerous Missions too numerous to count. He served as a navy s. E. A. L. , a member of the famed s. E. A. L. Team 6 and on the night of may 1st, 2011 he was a part of operation neptune spear. As the second man through the door into the room where the worlds most wanted terrorist was hiding he fired the fateful shot that brought the biggest manhunt in World History to an end. His name is robert oneill. And he is the man who killed Osama Bin Laden. The face we are looking at is the last face that Osama Bin Laden saw on earth. Yeah. I mean, if it was light enough, i was definitely the last person he saw. You trained on targets with his face on them. Yeah. What was it like to kill the actual guy . It wasnt real. It was another guy in a house we shot. It didnt sink in. It didnt sink in for a while. Has it sunk in now . Yeah, it has now. Ive thought about it every day for a number of years. Im still trying to figure out if its the worst or best thing ive 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 dont know whats going to happen. And thats 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 oneill had a normal chide hood. He basketballed for the high school, worked odd jobs around town and was always surrounded by family and friends. Whats it like coming back to butte . Its always great coming back the butte, just the view of the city up on the hill. Big m. The locals i. s a great home feeling. This is home. This is where i grew up and everything is 0 familiar with me. Hasnt really changed in 20 years. Where are you taking me many. We are going into the freeway for a whats called a watt job and the first stop every time i fly in if i fly in to butte, we come here. Driving on the way over, i text everyone saying were getting chops. They know what we mean. Here they are. Thats what we need. Thank you. This is your favorite sandwich in the world . In the world. Yeah. This is this is a reason to come home. To butte. To get one of these. Yeah. Cheers. Uhhuh. Butte was a copper boom town in the late 1800s and later grew into montanas fifth largest city. Its just a really good town blue collar town with a lot of history with the mines. People working hard people playing hard. People eating hard. A lot of good food here. Its great people, great attitudes. Like many montana natives much of robs childhood was spent outdoors. A lot of skiing, a lot of snowboarding, hunting when its time to hunt. Fishing. Good mountains for hiking. Outdoor type stuff. Shooting. How old were you when you first fired a gun . I was probably 13 maybe 12 or 13. Right around the time my dad and i started hunting. You have to be a certain age but i could go hunting. Once he was old enough, hunting trips with his father became a favorite past time. We go at it. We go out every chance we have. Every weekend and then, you know, permission was given during the week. After high school graduation, rob didnt really know what was next. I had a job at mcdonalds. I worked at the blue villa a pizza place uptown butte and bar. Awesome, best taco pizza in the world. I moved furniture for a little while. Worked in a mine for a few months. Rather than follow the path of many who turned jobs in the mips into a lifelong career, rob wanted something different. It was here that he learned to drive a warcar. Fate intervened and led him through the doors of a military recruiting office. I was in a relationship with a young lady and that went sideways. And that was kind of the Tipping Point time to leave town. And it was funny, when i got to the navy, 95 of the guys there were there for the same reason. That was the point when i was in i needed to get out of town mode. That was the easiest way to get out of town and i went in to join the marine corps. Marines are just cool and good at marketing and the best uniforms. It is cool. And so i walked in. He wasnt there and the navy guy was there and i talked to him basically went to ask him where the marine was. And he told me you know, asked me why. He told me about s. E. A. L. S. Did they ask you if you knew how to swim . Well, no. Being a recruiter, theyre not always truthful. He wanted to bill us fill the quota. He told me you need to do this, this and this. And me not doing the research, i figured it would just be easy to swim that distance in that time. How hard can swimming be . How hard . Pretty hard. Swimming is not that easy. Especially when you dont know how to do it. When you say you didnt know how to do it . I didnt know technique. I could keep myself alive in pool. Talked into signing up to be a navy s. E. A. L. , rob knew he needed to learn how to swim fast. He headed to the pool at the local high school and basically moved in. I would swim every day. I had some help with some friends from high school that knew how to swim really well. When you got to s. E. A. L. Training, where were you in terms of snablt. As far as swimming . Yeah. The bottom. We had guys that swam four years of College Water polo players. Mainly all high school swimmers. Competitive. And then me. So it was yeah. It was eye opening. Still to come tonight on the man who killed Osama Bin Laden it was infuriating. We wanted to go. We really wanted to do this. Thats why were all here now. After 17 years, i think its over for him. Its bin laden, they found him. Were going to get him. Rob oneil had one year of college under his belt, a job delivering pizzas and only a basic grasp of swimming when a recruiter convinced him to enlist and become a navy s. E. A. L. By january 1996, after five months of intensive swim training, rob found himself in great lakes illinois, for navy boot camp. But boot camp was nothing compared to what came next. Buds or basic underwater demolition Field Training puts recruits through some of the most grueling physical punishment anyone can endure. Most recruits dont even pass the first phase. Physical conditioning. General workouts every day eventually wear into, you know, a thousand pushups a day, a thousand situps a day, hundreds of pullups, obstacle course. First time you do it, you fall and break your neck. Miles and miles of soft sand running in all the time. Miles from where you work out to the gally and running six miles a day just to eat and then the other 12 miles on top of that. Swimming, pool drills and then just instructors and you have to run everywhere. You cant walk anywhere. Youre running and then instructors find you and drop you and like 25 pushups and then 35 and then 50. Phases go on. Theres tests every single day. Pass or fail. Like drown proofing and tie your hands behind your feet and feet together and drop you in the pool and exhaling the water to sink and then breathe and then tenminute swing and floating is hard tied up. You cant touch the bottom. Swim down and grab a mask with the teeth and flip up and show you and then let you out and thats where people lose it. Its not natural to be tied up and thrown in the pool. 5 15s nautical miles, 14mile run at one point and did the swim twice in four days. It was a friday we did it. And the instructors didnt like us very much and said opposed to swimming with the current were going to go down to mexico and swim back to coronado and the tides are going that way. We swam against the current and hit the time limit hypothermia sets in. 5 1 2 hours or whatever and pulled guys maybe 50 meters from the end. So we technically didnt finish it. We came in monday and they were like, hey, we were going to have the dive physics class today but instead since we didnt finish the swim, well do that. So go grab your fins and thats probably the meanest thing anyones ever done to me. You have a test for time. A test of fourmile run and times decrease as you go on and in between the tests you are doing call sthetices and getting your butt kicked. Part of the way through physical conditioning is hell week. Five and a half days of nonstop training, 20 hours a day, with at most 4 hours of sleep at night. During hell week recruits run more than 200 miles. The way that i remember feeling was i know i have a past. I know i came from somewhere. But thats gone and i have no future. Im going to be in hell for the rest of my life. Thats what it felt like. This is the worst place ive ever been until you get a day off and then its the best. They give you weekends off because you need a third heel. The saying is everybody wants to be a frog man on friday especially when the sun is out. Sunday youre like, here we go again. Miserable experience. The next phase is combat diving and scuba operating above water and deep beneath the surface. After that, comes land warfare, explosives and weapons training and small unit tactics. Followed by 26 weeks of more advanced s. E. A. L. Qualification training. Never really was a im sure i can do it. Im sure im not going to quit. Thats part of the attitude here. I mean, i knew there was no chance of me quitting. Theyll throw me out or im going to be hurt but i wont say you got the better of me. Some good advice that was given to me just litting things like i had an instructor tell me i wont ask you to do anything impossible. It will be really hard but not impossible. You can do it. Dont quit. Another guy said to me i dont understand how you can quit because when you quit they take your helmet off and your name is on it, theyre in line. How can you quit and put a helmet with your fathers name in the quitters line. Thats good advice. 26 weeks into it its graduation week. Im going to make it. And he did. But the training didnt end at graduation. And then off to parachute school and more advanced predeployment courses. Survived s. E. A. L. Training. You become a navy s. E. A. L. Officially. What was your first job . First job i was assigned to a platoon, bravo platoon s. E. A. L. Team 2. We went to the range and we were shooting navy qul if i cases. I was a pretty good shot and my boss said this new guy is good. Send him to Sniper School n. That first they called ate wormup, the Training Cycle before forward deployment and sent me for Navy Special WarfareSniper School and i became a sniper. Soon the boy from butte, montana, one year before delivering taco pizzas was a navy s. E. A. L. Sniper. Coming up next on the man who killed Osama Bin Laden the World Trade Center tower number 1 is on fire. The whole outside of the building, there was a huge explosion. Said the words Osama Bin Laden within 30 seconds. By the time rob was 21 years old he was navy s. E. A. L. Sniper deployed overseas. It was a fairly quiet time to serve in the United States military but then in an instant everything changed. The World Trade Center tower number 1 is on fire. The whole outside of the building, it was just a huge explosion. Looked like the plane was aiming towards the building. Second plane into the other tower tower of the trade center, major fire. One of the bildings is partially collapsed. The other tower just collapsed. Major collapse. Major collapse. I was in the Operations Office at Naval SpecialWarfare Group 2 which is in germany and i was catching up on emails and sitting there with a couple of the Operations Officers like that, and they went to breaking news. We have a very tragic alert for you right now. An incredible plane crash in to the World Trade Center here at the lower tip of manhattan. The first reports were, you know, small plane had hit and showed it. Its like wow. Thats the entire building. That wasnt a small plane. And then we started saying, look how clear it is. This is something else. Were actually not quite ahead of it. Another plane just flew into the second tower. We saw the second plane hit and instantly we were like thats it. We said the words Osama Bin Laden within 30 seconds. We knew everything changed. We didnt know what was going to happen. It was a shot in the gut. It was it was surreal. It was painful. And it was it was infuriating to see you know, the symbol of greatest nation gone. You know . And then you got people dancing in the streets overseas. You got the footage of Osama Bin Laden in the cave laughing about it. It was just like one of those okay, i guess its on and were going to get you. Rob and his teammates were itching to get into the fight. But at the invasion of afghanistan began they would have to wait. They were going to send the tier 1 guys in from the army and s. E. A. L. Team 6. As the war started, tactics were trickling down from s. E. A. L. Team 6. All we knew at that time, all anyone knew vietnam tactics. We hadnt been to war seriously since vietnam. Theres grenada, desert storm. A couple of hours. We only knew what we knew. We only knew vietnam. But then the guys coming back saying this is what theyre doing in the gun fight. They honed the craft and continued to train while in the middle east another storm was brewing. This hour american and Coalition Forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people and to defend the world of grave danger. 2003, the invasion in iraq is happening. So were like we are definitely going to be a part of that. So we were actually in the Mediterranean Sea on the amphibian ship. As they headed towards iraq, another crisis was flaring up. Liberias civil war had made the country extremely dangerous. So president bush ordered the s. E. A. L. S and a group of marines to evacuate all americans to safety. So we ended upturning around and going to liberia while everyone else went to war and we swam in and did a survey of the beach and grabbed the americans out so we missed the war. Thats when that happened and i figured to go to team s. E. A. L. 6 and thats the decision i med. Being a member of s. E. A. L. Team 16 the goal of many s. E. A. L. S. Known as the Development Group or deb group theyre the best of the best. The proverbial tip of the spear becoming a member, however, is no easy feat. To get into s. E. A. L. Team 6 now theyre Training Navy s. E. A. L. S to be part of a nofail team. 50 of the navy s. E. A. L. S that try out dont make it. Thats saying something. These are serious dudes. Things heated up quickly with s. E. A. L. Team 6 tasked with hunting down insurgents and highvalue tar gets in iraq and afghanistan. Probably 6 out of 7 nights a week that we would go out. Thats where we learned how to fight. We got as good as we did because we learned from the enemy. The enemy knew our tactics before we started fighting them in iraq. And they used them against us. What would a night where youre working be like . The intelligence people worked around the clock and generally go in there, find out what they had been watching all day and based on what they were watching get in the helicopters, fly away and then go into a house, find the bad guys. Take them and their stuff. Bring them back and find more targets based on what they tell you and next night the same thing. How much concern that the houses before booby trapped . A concern. They would rig it and wait for people to enter and blow it up. You have the look for whats not belonging there. We went in and face to face with a big drum of homemade explosives right in the middle of the room wired. Say the code word for what means get out of here quietly and abruptly and people jumping off the roof. Did you think you would pull the sheets down to see if there was a bed and when you look its bin laden . No. During those raids it was all low hf level thugs that were making bombs and killing americans. Every one of the guys were saving someones life because theyre in every branch of the military with a much more dangerous job than we did. We fought on our terms. We have marines, army navy guys driving around in vehicles wondering when theyre going to blow up. It was better to target ied makers taking them off the battlefield. Coming up next before the bin laden mission, rob was on the front line of another crisis that would end up as a hollywood blockbuster. The rescue of captain richard phillips. That story and never before seen video of that mission when the man who killed Osama Bin Laden cont missions executed by Naval SpecialWarfare Group are classified and the American People never hear about most of them but sometimes their actions made headlines back home and the public gets a small glimpse into the lives of s. E. A. L. S. April 2009. S. E. A. L. Team 6 was home in the states when 8,000 miles away the massive container ship maersk alabama was hijacked by pirates off the coast of somalia. It was portrayed in call tin phillips. Look at me. Sure. Look at me. Im the captain now. The crew fought back against the pirates but the pirates took a lifeboat and escaped with their hostage captain richard phillips. News reached the United States. An american was being held captive on a tiny lifeboat in the middle of the indian ocean. We knew we had a system in pl