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The Operator: The Seal Team Operative And The Mission That Changed The World

Robert O'Neill recounts his years as a Navy SEAL, beginning with a childhood in Butte, Montana, and moving through his decision to enlist and the punishing selection and training that followed. He then describes a career of around four hundred missions, including efforts to rescue Marcus Luttrell and Captain Richard Phillips.

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Over more than a decade of counterterror operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, his team logged many enemy kills, and he watched several comrades die. The book gives a firsthand view of combat, the dark humor soldiers use to cope, and the methods of the military's most selective units. It also offers O'Neill's own account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

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