TY - BOOK AU - O'Neill, Robert, TI - OPERATOR: the seal team operative and the mission that changed the world SN - 1471148157 U1 - 359.984 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Simon & Schuster KW - O'Neill, Robert, KW - Bin Laden, Osama KW - United States KW - Navy KW - SEALs KW - Biography KW - History KW - Afghan War, 2001- KW - Commando operations KW - Special operations (Military science) KW - 21st century N2 - 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 ER -