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“No Easy Day”, First Hand Account of the Bin Laden Raid

by · August 23, 2012 · Posted In: Black Ops & Intel, NSWC, SOF News
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Yesterday many of us were caught off guard when Penguin books announced that they would be releasing a new book called “No Easy Day” on 9/11 that would be authored by a SEAL Team Six operator who was on the objective and participated in the raid.

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SOFREP will have more on the ‘No Easy Day‘ story as it develops, but here is some additional information:

  • Written by a former member of Red Team
  • The author was apparently not in the room when Bin Laden was shot however, he was an assault team leader on the raid that killed UBL
  • The author most likely secured a seven figure royalty advance for this book deal.
  • The members of DEV (ST6) are extremely angry about this book and feel betrayed
  • The author may have been on the helicopter that crashed

A DEVGRU Operator on “No Easy Day”

“Its not a secret (the UBL raid) and their mission (is being ) exploited by politics – to be expected, but for one of our own to cash in is simply unprofessional and disrespectful to those that didn’t cash in.” -DEVGRU operator

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Recon6
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 @HugeFan Hey bro, no problem with Frog Lube, it is Edible, lol.  And it smells so damned good.   6

HugeFan
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 @Recon6 LOL, yeah the good news was that it was my shooting shirt. It already has stains on it; blood, dirt, you know. The usual... It's just twice now, so I make sure to not have anything in my hands anymore. :-)

Veritasworld
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Dear Brandon and/or Jack, Please banish this ignorant fucknut Ghengiskhan6 troll who not only cannot spell or string together a cogent sentence, but is insulting the heroism and memory of a lot of dead Americans including some of your brothers.

LauraWalkerKC
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 @Veritasworld Done.  My brain hurts.

CJCJ
CJCJ

 @LauraWalkerKC  @Veritasworld 

V, Thanks for putting my request into context.

 

LW, Sorry to start a party then leave. Thanks for pulling the trigger.

Old PH2
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 @LauraWalkerKC  @Veritasworld I've been trying to decide if English might be a third language for this fellow.  I'm beyond my depth, as far as deciphering the syntax.  Some makes sense some seems to be pasted randomly, reminds me of William S. Burroughs, remember how he would type out a manuscript then cut it up and paste it back together?

 

Very avant-garde,  Just hard to read, similar to Miles Davis late in life.  

Gengiskhan6
Gengiskhan6

Al qaeda does not exist. It's just a U.S. or Uk or Israel or anyway wester operated image that is of course working with that side. Nothing new we say if we refer to the fact that also Israel from the last wars played has been operating (since before Lebanon 2006) in the news-war where Israel recognizes itself that spreading news and their own truth is important as and even more then winning the war on the battlefield.The truth has been started dying since when Afghanistan was bombed, and Iraq was invaded for FAKE reasons. When illegally UBL (seemingly) has been killed a lot of stories, on porpouse has been sunk with him. I hope the book will tell less fiction and more truths like these... it's not cospiracy this is just the recognition that we have nothing to show for something!

SEAN SPOONTS
SEAN SPOONTS

@Gengiskhan6 In case no one has already said this; Earth Welcomes You.

LauraWalkerKC
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 @Gengiskhan6 If Al Qaeda doesn't exist I've got a whole roster full of dudes who blew themselves up for it who are going to be pissed.

 

Well, not really, they're too dead to be pissed.  But the next set of 'splodydopes might want to know about this.

markmiller
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Al Qaeda calls for death of Navy SEAL who authored book on bin Laden mission http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-57500137-503543/al-qaeda-calls-for-death-of-navy-seal-who-authored-book-on-bin-laden-mission/

Ironsights1911
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 @markmiller thanks to FOX News for outing his name

Gengiskhan6
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 @Ironsights1911  @markmiller @CJCJ    just another disturbing comment, not just a comment it's a truth. Those newspaper, tv, broadcasing organization are totally as many news paper and editorials politically oriented and biased. There is not more conservative, distorted, evangelizing network then FOX in the U.S. it's a texan tv for U.S. old stile americans who want to listen just to that kind of news... In a few words, it's like 1984, ever seen or read about Orwell book? Well Fox news would rapresent (it's not of course the only one in every country there are many news, tv, editors who operate as it does spreading ideas and attitude to make people become less intelligent (they tell stories of animals saved in dangerous situations, the dog that saves his owner, - yes these kind of nonsense stories are shown on tv news!! - then they tell every real story about real deal situation with a total distorted look. I really feel strange that people who go online informing them selves or especially that write online to inform others still read or listen to TV editors when is perfectly known by freemen and every single informed person that main stream is totally trying to make you a puppet.NPR is better or PBS that were good services I think. Anyway the mutation that the most of the news on tv especially have gone through is something that has happened strongly in last decade but have started since when tv is there.  TV is a tool that does not allows INTERACTION. this is what makes it dangerous. Differently from Radio here you still can call and say your opinion tv doesn't allow that. It's a cannon, a gun pointed at you. Watch out the gun you play with. ... For the same reason when people want to ostracize other on internet forums or discussions that is just a retrogade attitude that they find comfortable since they are accustomed at being shot from the TV and so they want to be shot from one and only one direction also on the internet (internet allows freedom, don't kill it!)

 

HugeFan
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From DEV Assault team lead to Blue Falcon of the year... Seriously depressed... fuck...

Old PH2
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 @HugeFan For those who don't Milspeak Blue Falcon ain't Best Friend.  Ahem! carry on!

HugeFan
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 @Old PH2 We even use it in the yard. I actually presented a dude (he doesn't work for us anymore) with a patch that I bought off of a website, last year. Long story short: he fell asleep... while two guys (one of which was me) were degassing a(n) H2S transport tank on a barge. Needless to say, I was pissed...

Old PH2
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 @HugeFan  @Old PH2 The paper work nearly crippled me.  It's considered an AD even though Dumb ASS pulled the trigger on purpose.  Only thing good was I nearly made him cry, think I got through to him.  Only time will tell, better get out my turd polish.

HugeFan
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 @Old PH2 Wow, did he say that he used to work in the shipyard? LOL That's one where you grab him by the collar, drag him outside and explain to him that if you see him again: he'll be the new down load can. Only you'll let him chose which end the barrel goes in... Our fellow citizens skitz me out sometimes bro. Oh Jeeeeezzushhhhh

Old PH2
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 @HugeFan NO, I get it.  I just don't have near the self control you guys think I do.  Just last week did a near re-enactment of that scene form Pulp Fiction.  You know the one... to paraphrase  "Do I look like a bitch?  Cause your sure trying to fuck me here..."  Believe me, it went down hill form there.  Guy had no clue, you do not pull the trigger in the down load can.  Until you pull the mag and clear your weapon, JESUS GIVE ME STRENGTH  

HugeFan
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 @Old PH2 PH, I'm gonna tell you like it is. I got out of the tank saw his ass in the corner of the entry void... LAID OUT ON OIL ABSORBENT PADS like a Craftmatic Adjustable. Serious! He had set it up so that his body would be in a recliner-type position. I lost my shit bro. When I get that angry (see:rage) I get quiet and walk away... nothing would have come back good for me, ya know? I told my "tank buddy" to take care of the POS (he was let go for the rest of the day) and about a week later presented him with his "honor". I did so while explaining to him that hydrogen sulfide first) asphyxiates and second) reduces lungs into an opaque goo, so recovery is just a body recovery; not a rescue. You know what? I'm still pissed... Sorry for the long post.

Old PH2
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 @HugeFan Damn, top guy on a confined space?  Fucker's lucky I wasn't there, I might be old but he'd be walking funny today.  Guaranteed!  Back in the day I pulled a dude out of the window of his semi for running over our safety line. The boy's broke us up but, Mr. semi landed on the gravel underneath me somehow...  

Recon6
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 @HugeFan  I hear you brother :(   I am so disappointed I figured the Only cure was to go purchase something, lol.  So I got a Zero Tolerance  0200ST !  Sucker weights a pound, but for a folder I am ready to go vent my anger out in the jungle.  Bad part tho, @ArcticWarrior  and I gave up killing, except if necessary, and now we pursue 'game' with cameras.  I was a Benchmade guy forever, then saw this ZT hunk of metal and bought it.  Told my wife it only cost $40, lol.

Thinking of you bro....chin up.    6

IronMike76
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Meh...25 mil I'll never get MY hands on. Apparently some aren't as honorable as others. Nothing new there. I suppose it beats sellin' guns to drug cartels.

AaronBrown
AaronBrown

Did anyone read Marcus Lutrells first book?

Gengiskhan6
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 @AaronBrown yes .. i find really difficult not to think that what I read was not  fiction I read it interested but if from the mind width I was offended or at least moved by the poor and simple ideas of Marcus toward a completely different culture from his, I was also very dubtful about how the story was told. I hope that this book that is coming won't be too much fiction. I suggest to read Luttrell book it's a good story. I don't need a book to remember his camrades the fact is that it is impossible to know how these things go if we are not there ... Who is there has the power to tell you the truth. Who controld the media etc.(who has seen the videos where the fighter group who attacked Marcus team and sadly won over it show on youtube the tools used by the Seals? Well ... those are the only videos and files shared ? Do you believe so ?

CJCJ
CJCJ

 @Gengiskhan6  @AaronBrown 

ATTN ADMIN/MODERATORS;

This dude needs to cease to exist on this site.

REQUEST;

Please pull the trigger on this Gengiskhan6 MF's IP address.

HugeFan
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 @Recon6  @Gengiskhan6  @CJCJ R6: i DiDn't know. If this would MAKE i>t easier for KaHn to understand? LOL

 

Okay, that was a cheap shot and I apologize. By the way GK6, I'm a bit of a prick apparently. LOL

HugeFan
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 @Gengiskhan6  @CJCJ The issue some are having with you is your intransigent stance and reticence to accept that your "truths" are not shared by all of us here. Try being less insulting, drink decaf, punctuate every now and again, and by then I'm sure that we will all be more receptive. Stop shitting on us, in short. Carry on.

HugeFan
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 @ArcticWarrior  @Gengiskhan6  @CJCJ +1 I completely agree with while I "liked" some comments wishing for his banishment; I agree with his pot stirring the most for the same reasons as PH, it's like an early Scorcese or Oliver Stone coming at you.

LauraWalkerKC
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 @CJCJ    @AaronBrown  xxoxo sorry for the slow response, darlin.  Sunday morning.  Had trouble unwrapping the troll from all that tinfoil.

ArcticWarrior
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 @Gengiskhan6  @CJCJ

 Khan, Can I call you that?, I like you. You come here and throw all kinds of crazy things out there. And then you come up with some gems. Your an enigma. Im not sure what to make of you, but know this, a lot of the men in this place played the game for real, no fiction. So even though its America and you are free to say what you feel in PUBLIC, as opposed to other shit hole countries, dont cross the line and insult people or peoples service, if you want to do that then say goodbye. You are a guest, you can be the foil, you can have opposing views, you can be the clown but take your Motherfucking shoes off your a guest. Again I like you, you made me smirk a few times. Now politely tell us a little about yourself, where you served where youve been, otherwise back to Botany Bay and the deep freeze for you.

Gengiskhan6
Gengiskhan6

 @CJCJ  sure, why not ostracizing every one who says something that is different from your ideas, of course because he might get the truth or he knows what the truth is. I can't find more embarassing to offende the conscience of others so CJCJ it's not a problem if I offend you or a couple others of course, I won't write when you are here, and of course you do me the favor not to read me.This is real girl things.(as girls weren't allowed in the man thing and military groups also girls shouldn't be allowed to read sofrep, of course I am talkin bout you Cjcj).Just a comment about the news up here in this short article: I would prefere to find affirmative sentences not if phrases and probability otherwise where is the news ?

Recon6
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 @AaronBrown   AB, this is SOFREP, we Read All the books, our way of support since none of us were/are in the Quartermaster Corps.    R6

HugeFan
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@Recon6 @AaronBrown True dat! I've been looking at the ZTs more and more, good looking out bro!

HugeFan
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@ArcticWarrior @Recon6 @AaronBrown I knew that it was only a matter of time before you or M2 noticed... Dammit! :-)

Recon6
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 @HugeFan  @AaronBrown   Thanks bro...she is a Trip, lol.  Her favorite color?  Camo !!  Her hat?  Bass Pro Shops !!  She loves to visit us here in Florida, girl has No Fear!   6

HugeFan
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 @Recon6  @AaronBrown You're up for G'Pa of the Year IMHO, and your granddaughter is tougher than most men I know! Handed her a .22... LOL Hell yeah, get some little one!

Recon6
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 @HugeFan  @AaronBrown   Fan, it was hilarious, my Granddaughter who is 10, comes running in the house, "G-Pa there's a bunch of pretty snakes out by the front door"!  Oh Shit!  In Florida "pretty snakes" means Coral!!  So I gave her a .22 cal and she had a ball, lol.  Then I Explained about snakes in Florida.   6

HugeFan
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 @Recon6  @AaronBrown Corals? No shit? Yikes... between you and T9's squirrels, SOFREP has a Doolittle Army! :-)

Recon6
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 @HugeFan  @AaronBrown  Lol, we have no shortage of snakes here in Florida, especially when it rains!  They seek refuge in the house.

Had a nest of corals under the dwarf palm at the front door, lol, now its all good as she stays on the concrete!    6

HugeFan
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 @Recon6  @AaronBrown This may sound cruel but if I was you I would buy a hundred rubber snakes and keep them all around the perimeter of your "loadout room"... just sayin'. LOL, dude always got your six, 6!

Recon6
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 @HugeFan  @AaronBrown  LOL, thanks brother!  She is of the ilk that thinks a man Only needs one knife, I have a 15 year old CQC7! and one gun, a 12 year old Glock 19! and one rifle, a million year old Weatherby 7mm Mag!  Everything else I have to hide out in the shed, she Never goes out there, afraid of snakes, lol.   Thanks boss.. 6

HugeFan
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 @Recon6  @AaronBrown As far as I know Recon6's Livefyre account has been compromised and there is a madman telling lies about how he bought an expensive knife. This is categorically untrue and I wish for this person to stop spreading this malicious rumor. Anyone who knows Recon 6, knows he would NEVER do this... I'm going to burn in Hell for that... LOL

Recon6
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 @HugeFan  @AaronBrown   Fan, I will delete this Quickly, LOL, I paid $160 for mine!!  I don't remember the name, but I was watching a movie and this character pulled out this 'huge' knife, a folder, flicked his wrist and Bingo!!!  Not sure if my ZT is the same, but Damn, it is really sweet, lol.    6

Cannot let my wife see this :)

HugeFan
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 @Recon6  @AaronBrown That is what I am scared of! LOL I see them on Amazon for really good deals... Ever since I joined here, I've just been trying not to melt my plastic, ya know? LOL

Recon6
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 @HugeFan  @Recon6  @AaronBrown  HF, you won't be disappointed if you buy a ZT.  It is one Serious folder.  I thought a 4" blade in a folder might be a little too big, however, it is so well made you quickly forget the size/weight, seems as if it was made just for Me!  Beware, If you hold one, you Will buy it, it is that Good!   6