| Description |
ix, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career that included his involvement in attempts to rescue “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and 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. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
O'Neill, Robert, 1976-
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Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011 -- Assassination.
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United States. Navy. SEALs -- Biography.
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United States. Navy. SEALs -- History -- 21st century.
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Special operations (Military science) -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Special operations (Military science) -- Pakistan.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Commando operations -- United States.
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Butte (Mont.) -- Biography.
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| Added Title |
Firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden and my years as a SEAL Team warrior |
| ISBN |
9781501145032 (hardcover) |
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