Operator

Description:

A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account of SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring 400-mission career. 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.

subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009,  Assassination,  Commando operations,  United States,  American Personal narratives,  United States. Navy. SEALs,  Special operations (Military science),  Afghan War, 2001-,  Biography,  History,  United states, navy, biography,  United states, navy, seals,  Bin laden, osama, 1957-2011,  nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2017-05-14,  New York Times bestseller,  Piracy,  Maersk Alabama (Ship)

People: Osama Bin Laden (1957-2011),  Robert O'Neill (1976-)

Places: United States,  Pakistan,  Butte (Mont.)

Times: 21st century