Thursday, September 6, 2012

A Quick Summary On The Most Critical Pages Of 'No Easy Day'

Here's How Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette Describes The Bin Laden Raid -- Business Insider

We're reading through No Easy Day, the famous autobiography by no-longer-anonymous Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette.

What follows is my summary of the most critical 24 pages of the book, the part that covers the raid on Osama bin Laden.

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There are a few details Bissonnette reveals here that I don't think anyone outside the president and his staff knew — and these are little hitches that would have made for a completely different mission.

Bissonnette describes how the SEALs broke up into four separate teams: two assault, and two Quick Reaction Force (QRF) teams that would remain on the periphery. I've heard these QRF guys called the "in-case-shit" teams, ready in case something out of the ordinary happens.

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My Comment: This is a must read.

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