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Edited on Thu May-05-11 01:44 PM by kentuck
"We took off from a secret airbase in the most southeast corner of Afghanistan. We got all our gear ready the night before and looked at each other with anxious anticipation of what our mission was going to be the next evening. Few people knew what we were about to do.
Then the time drew near. This was the job we had trained for all these years. The average age of the group was about 38 years old. There was no one wet behind the ears. There were no rookies. We had two Warrant Officers from the US Army prepared to fly us into a retirement community in Pakistan called Abbottabad. Mostly just a community of retired generals and spies. Then we set off.
We followed the mountainous terrain to stay out of sight of any Pakistani military or missiles. We had the latest stealth technology on our helicopters. They barely made a sound as we wound our way to the hideout of Osama Bin Laden. We did not know what to expect but we were prepared for the worst.
We knew what our mission was. We were to take out Osama Bin Laden and anybody that posed a danger to us. We had six men in one chopper and seven in the other. We were able to set the first one down but the second one caught on a wire or cable in the yard and flipped on its side. All the troops were able to get out the other side and we proceeded with the mission.
We first encountered a man and a woman as we were going into the compound. We shot them both. We found out a few minutes later that they were a courier for Bin Laden and his wife. We proceeded to the next floor where we encountered the son of Bin Laden and he was taken out.
As we cautiously opened the doors on the third floor, we came to the room where Bin Laden was hiding out with his wife. As we entered, we had no idea what to expect. Was he going to blow himself up. Was he going to start firing with an automatic weapon? Did he have an explosive device set up to go off with a remote? We had no idea.
As we made our entrance, his wife started yelling at us and charged at us. She was shot in the leg and fell to the floor, cursing and crying. Bin Laden was shot in the chest as he moved toward his wife. His hatred was obvious as he bent over to check his wife and made eye contact with the Seal on my left. In a split second, he was shot in the head, just above the left eye. He crumbled to the floor. We put him in a large black zippered bag and carried him out, along with a payload of computers and hard drives and intelligence.
Two teams of three men each had rounded up the family and put them in one room on the bottom floor. There were over twenty of them when we made a headcount. We retreated to the good chopper we had left and a team of three men had set explosives around the disabled heli and near the JP4 tank and set it off as we lifted off from the compound.
We knew that we had a short time to get back to our base. When we elevated to about 400 or 500 feet, we could here jets engines revving and taking off. It was a mad rush back to our base. Luckily, everyone made it and the mission was accomplished."
NOTE: This story is fiction. No one assisted in it being told except the US media.
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