SEAL Team Six's Bin Laden Raid

0:00On May 2nd, 15 years ago, on May 1st, 2011, Navy Seal Robert O'Neill helped take down Osama bin Laden in a high-stakes raid called Operation Neptune Spear. Seal Team 6 flew in from Afghanistan on stealth black hawks to hit a fortified compound in a Bata Bad, Pakistan, where Intel said the world's most. Wanted terrorists was hiding. The mission was shrouded in secrecy from the jump. The team got vague briefings, no country, no air support, just a heads up. It was big. They pieced it together as bin Laden after a day off with family. CIA analyst Maya, who tracked him for years, confirmed it was their closest shot ever. Picture the tension, 23 seals, a dog named Cairo, and one interpreter crammed in choppers. One bird crashed on landing, but they pushed on, breaching fake doors and a guesthouse where they dropped the courier and his wife. Up the stairs, they smoked bin Laden's son Khalid, his last guard. O'Neal says he led the final push to the third floor, spotting bin Laden behind a curtain.

1:04The guy looked confused and skinny, O'Neal dropped him with three shots to the head. They grabbed a goal mine of Intel computers, drives, docs, then bagged the body and expiltrated on a Chinook. That night changed everything, closing the book on 9-11's mastermind. O'Neal still carries those memories, a mix of honor and raw survival, reminding us how one teams grit into the dark era.