Simply claiming to be a current or former member of the military is not illegal. If a SEAL couldnt justify the threat after a shooting, he was quietly removed from the unit. Red watched bin Laden fall. But in the eyes of the enlisted SEALs of Red Team, Hyder had killed a man who didnt have to die. My character and honor are steadfast. After being shepherded through the nine-month training, he entered Red Squadron. His forehead was gruesome, he later told Esquire magazine. Slabinski retired from the military in 2014 after 25 years in the Navy. The SEALs in the unit were furious that the White House revealed to the world that Navy SEALs had carried out the raid, violating the traditional code of silence about their missions. They were both talented and competitive, and they were determined to profit from their experiences as SEALs. Our sense of whats right and whats wrong is warped. Evidence was presented that Slabinski gave an order to shoot all the men they encountered during another raid, whether or not they were armed. After the Chinook miniguns strafed the vehicles and stopped them, Slabinski and his team of snipers landed and moved to a rise several hundred yards away from one of the trucks and began firing sniper rounds at the militants. The raid, several of the SEALs said afterward, was one of the easiest missions theyd ever conducted. Earlier that evening, general officers from the Joint Special Operations Command had scrambled the SEALs after watching a Predator drone video feed of a man they suspected was bin Laden set off in a convoy of three or four vehicles in the Shah-i-Kot Valley, where al Qaeda forces had fortified themselves. May 24, 2018. That was the only punishment. Red Team, known as the Redmen, employed a Native American warrior as a mascot; Blue Team, known as the Pirates, wore the Jolly Roger; and Gold Team, known as the Crusaders or Knights, wore a lion or a crusaders cross. Red could see bin Laden bleeding out from his chest wound but he still had not entered the bedroom. The second inquiry also uncovered the head on a platter remark as the instigation for the beheading in December 2007, but the commands senior enlisted leader told Slabinski he would not get the promotion or be allowed to serve at the command again because of the Pantera order. Normally, SEAL Team 6s commanding officer, a captain, would conduct a captains mast, a form of non-judicial punishment. He was dying, but he rolled over and I didnt know whether he was armed or not. The old sailor put the portfolio down. Photos: Facebook; airsoft-army.com; www.lightfigher.net; Facebook. Bottom left:Screengrab from drone feed during the battle of Roberts Ridge. Most of the operators held a meeting to discuss what had happened on the mission. One operator, who confirmed Howards remarks, added his own: Thats the business were in.. McRaven became the first Navy SEAL to lead JSOC and was already familiar with Dam Necks status as the disrespectful sibling in the U.S. special operations family. Eventually, two other elements of a quick reaction force one of which included Hyder landed at the top of Takur Ghar. A former SEAL filed an appeal Tuesday, Dec. 21, that paints military leaders and their attorneys as corrupt martinets and levels allegations of rampant legal and sexual shenanigans by senior operators inside the ultrasecret Development Group, better known as "SEAL Team 6." In 2008, tensions began to rise between SEAL Team 6 and the CIA over operations in Afghanistan. We knew what needed to be done to police the kids. The former senior enlisted leader said he pressed several commanding officers to address what he believed were war crimes. Both should have remained on the second floor. Several of their teammates on the mission had to intervene, according to a former SEAL Team 6 operator. Was there another explanation? After 90 minutes, as the helicopters were nearing the rendezvous point, one of the SEALs alerted Hyder that an old man who had been lying in a ditch nearby was walking toward the SEALs position. Sources at SEAL Team 6 who were present during the operation estimated the number of dead was between 17 and 20. In the room with four of the suspected insurgents, four SEALs counted down and canoed each sleeping man with a shot to the forehead. Two of these sources told me that the British government informed SEAL Team 6 mission planners that Norgrove worked for the spy agency, and that they had been tracking her movements since the abduction. He said canoeing became big in 2007. Illustrations: Attila Futaki, Colorist: Greg Guilhaumond, Matthew Cole[emailprotected]theintercept.com@matthewacole, The SEALs believe that they can handle the discipline themselves, thats equal to or greater than what the criminal justice system would give to the person.. After the operation, $30,000 in cash, which the pirates had stashed in a lifeboat, went missing. After the SEALs tried blowing the buildings gated front door, someone inside fired several rounds out a window. In the summer of 1992, he left SEAL Team 8 and checked in to DEVGRU. According to a senior JSOC official, the Norgrove operation was an I told you so moment. Even so, two of the three SEALs later returned to the unit. SEAL Team 6 patches. Obviously there are exceptions and I knew plenty of really solid Chiefs and up, but they seemed to be the exception and not the rule. By 2007, the commands leadership was aware that some Blue Squadron operators were using specialized knives to conduct skinnings. Using the excuse of collecting DNA, which required a small piece of skin containing hair follicles, operators were taking large strips of skin from dead enemy fighters. Smetherss threat to expose Team 6 came just as Vice Adm.William McRaven settled in as the new commander of the Joint Special Operations Command. According to multiple sources, both of their accounts contain multiple self-serving falsehoods. Overall, it had become clear that Slabinskis run as a leader on the battlefield caused Blue Squadron to come off the rails, according to a former SEAL Team 6 leader. Our job is to ensure that we conduct ourselves in a way befitting the American people and the American flag. The retired SEAL, who spent the better part of two decades at the command, said he never asked Hyder why he mutilated the corpse. The operation, code-named ANSTRUTHER, an homage to Norgroves Scottish heritage, was authorized by British Prime Minister David Cameron. Already a popular motivational speaker, ONeill now charges up to $35,000 per speech. Top: Capt. Two of the operators with Hyder reported afterward that the man was not a threat. Ever since SEAL Team 6 killed Osama bin Laden, the SEALs who make up less than 5 percent of the nation's active-duty Special Operations forces have been catapulted into the spotlight,. It will mark a sea change in the sea service's clandestine and close-knit cadre of SEALs, a secretive and elite military force that rarely testifies against each other, especially in war crimes. But what happened during Objective Bull, the assault on the convoy in the Shah-i-Kot Valley, has never been previously reported. In keeping with Red Squadrons appropriation of Native American culture, Howard came up with the idea to bestow 14-inch hatchets on each SEAL who had a year of service in the squadron. We talked about it and 35 guys nodded their heads saying this is not who we are. We didnt hit women or kids. As far as the teams are concerned these individuals are persona non gratis. When you see your friend killed, recover his body, and find that the enemy mutilated him? By Emily Cochrane. Robert J. O'Neill. It wasnt necessary. He hasnt returned since. Fifi was mutilated, said a retired noncommissioned SEAL leader who was involved in internal discussions about how to prevent SEAL Team 6 from seeking revenge. Even if it was true, I dont know why he would say that. Hyder said he was not aware of the Bagram meeting held by the enlisted operators about him or the accusations. His account credits Red with the shot that felled bin Laden and holds that he and a third SEAL presumably ONeill fired several rounds into bin Laden as he was lying on the floor. Others were much more critical. Bottom: McRaven, left, and Capt. The SEALs biggest concern was how much time they would have, which was dictated by the amount of fuel the two Black Hawks could carry for the round trip. The SEALs had been specifically asked to avoid shooting bin Laden in the face. Several months after the bin Laden raid, in October 2011, SEAL Team 6 held its annual stump muster, a reunion of current command members and their families, as well as past leaders and senior operators. Canoeing them was funny.. Several of us confronted the officers, said one former noncommissioned officer who tried to stop the criminal behavior. In the ensuing 17-hour battle with the al Qaeda fighters, six more Americans were killed, and several were wounded. You ask me to go living with the pigs, but I cant go live with pigs and then not get dirty.. Robertss death, and the subsequent operations in eastern Afghanistan during the winter 2002 deployment, left an indelible impression on SEAL Team 6, especially on Red Team. Hyder finished his tour at SEAL Team 6 shortly after returning from the Afghanistan deployment and was later promoted to the rank of commander, the Navy equivalent of a lieutenant colonel. They ransacked the compound for documents and media for intelligence, left the survivors inside, and returned to Jalalabad air base with the body. So many dead bodies, so many, everywhere, and so the potential opportunities for mutilations were great.. By the time the two dozen Red Team operators departed for Objective Bull, tension had built up between Hyder, a commissioned officer, and the enlisted operators technically under his command. Answer (1 of 5): The Stolen Valor Act of 2013 (which replaced the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 because it was ruled unconstitutional) makes it illegal to claim military honors FOR TANGIBLE BENEFIT (e.g. Slabinski experienced, charismatic, and by now legendary bridged the gap. On the second floor of the SEAL Team 6 headquarters in the Dam Neck naval annex, a computer, known as the ops computer, stores the classified data on every mission the unit has completed for the past decade. Tim Szymanski. Afterward, Kuwaitis wife confirmed that bin Laden could be found on the third floor of the main building, just as the team had been briefed. ONeill was chosen as a team leader for a group providing external security but ultimately traded that leadership role for a junior spot on the team he and Bissonnette believed would get the first shot at bin Laden. The power of the Native American mascot, he said, was not to be dismissed. At the reunion, a few hundred yards from the Atlantic Ocean, a small group of current and former master chiefs stood around drinking and telling war stories. Conflicting accounts have emerged about how many other SEALs fired rounds into bin Ladens lifeless body, though one former SEAL Team 6 leader who viewed the body in Jalalabad told me the body appeared to be intact aside from the chest wound and obliterated face. One former SEAL leader who attended the proceeding told me McRavens message to the commands leadership was clear. When he first arrived at Dam Neck, operators in the unit who had served in Vietnam warned him that war crimes and battlefield atrocities hung like a cloud over the entire unit even if only one SEAL had participated. On May 1, two stealth Black Hawk helicopters took off from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and headed east toward Abbottabad. For many on the raid, including those who had been present in bin Ladens bedroom with ONeill, it was the first time theyd heard anyone in the command say the terrorist leader was standing, posing a threat of any kind. The falsehoods, both significant and slight, demonstrate that even when conducting the most important missions, SEAL Team 6 was unable to rise above the culture of deceit, personal enrichment, and self-aggrandizement that has corrupted a fighting unit legendary for its discipline and code of honor. Slabinkski and others in the squadron had fallen under the influence of an obscure war novel, Devils Guard, published in 1971 by George Robert Elford. Local residents and media on May 5, 2011, outside the compoundwhere al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bottom: Britt Slabinski, left, and Capt. (The Intercept is withholding the name of the operator, who believed he was following an order. Your teammates beside and behind you will cover all the other possible angles and areas of a room as you move forward. During the debrief, Red was identified as having hit bin Laden with a fatal shot, and ONeill was credited with putting security rounds into him after bin Laden had already gone down. The SEALs quickly intervened and made a deal with the CIA station in Kabul. Rob O'Neill, the SEAL Team Six operator who claims to have shot Osama bin Laden, praised Greitens as a "combat leader," spoke at his rallies, and offered signed versions of the ISIS bumper. McRaven was subsequently transferred from the unit. Although Bissonnette was able to sell a book and tell his story first, ONeill arguably got the better deal. When Slabinski was confronted by the commands senior enlisted leader about whether he had instructed Blue Squadron operators to kill all males during the operation, code-named Pantera, Slabinski acknowledged that he had done so. ONeill was soon removed from his role as a team leader in Red Squadron after he was observed publicly bragging in Virginia Beach bars that he was the man who shot bin Laden. He assumed it was a twisted act of misplaced revenge over the previous days events specifically, the gruesome death of Hyders teammate Neil Roberts. In what would become part of a pattern of secrecy and silence, the SEAL operators dealt with the issue on their own and kept the incident from their chain of command. Im disappointed he didnt take a knee.. Yes, we they committed war crimes. Asked for comment, the British government told The Intercept that it does not comment on security matters and would neither confirm nor deny that Norgrove worked for the intelligence agency. Since the 1980s, when Red Team was first created, there were many operators in the unit who had experienced a metamorphosis of identity and persona into Native American warriors. The SEALs successes throughout 2002 resulted in the Joint Special Operations Command choosing the unit to lead the hunt for al Qaeda, as well as the invasion of Baghdad in March 2003. Photos: U.S. Navy; U.S. Air Photo by Force Technical Sgt. Back at the base, hegave a speech to a group of analysts and nonoperational officers in which he told them that his bloody appearance was a demonstration of how a battlefield commander should lead. He ordered a pause in most SEAL and JSOC operations over a two-week period in February 2009. Its important that you put this stuff in context, the CIA officer said. Hes just beginning to suffer for what he did, said anotherSEAL Team 6 leader. The texture of those accounts reveals much about what went wrong with the most celebrated special operations command in the U.S. military. Two other SEAL Team 6 leaders with a combined 35 years at the command said the removal of Slabinski and the failure to pursue official punishment was an indictment of the senior officers they had failed one of their most basic duties, to hold themselves and others accountable for wrongdoing. Heath fired once, hitting the man, sending him tumbling down the back side of the small rise. Memories get distorted over 14 years. Just as important as mental toughness and physical fitness are to being a complete operator, spiritual resiliency is an often . Toni Trucks as Lieutenant (junior grade) Lisa Davis. In 2010, when Slabinski was up for a promotion at the command, SEAL Team 6 leaders conducted two internal inquiries before making a decision. And it takes the team, it takes individuals to pull you back. On its ``Wall of Shame,' CyberSEALs says Nolan claimed to be a member of Seal teams 2 and 6. He kept moving toward us, so at 15 meters I put one round in him and he dropped. SEAL Team 6 headquarters at Dam Neck naval annex, Virginia Beach, Va., showing the 30-foot trident sculpted from a fragment of the World Trade Center. No one was upset that he ordered a beheading or all the men shot even if they were unarmed. Theres no military purpose for it, a former Red Squadron operator told me. Senior leaders at the command knew about the misconduct and did little to eradicate it. Within two weeks of the apparent beheading, Moore deployed to Afghanistan. And part of that was getting rid of Britt Slabinski.. Last year, the command became concerned about his psychological condition, determining that he was medically unfit to deploy again. Tim took a dive, said a former noncommissioned SEAL officer, and it was at Moores direction. Szymanski had known Slabinski for at least 15 years. The operators were unhappy about the new restriction, arguing that call outs gave up the tactical advantage of surprise. First, bin Laden was armed, involved in a firefight, and using one of his wives as a human shield. Private sector and then Delta Force Its a great way to explain it away, but they have the hatchets to flaunt the law. . The new rule required a full photographic accounting of who was killed, photos of the entire body, where the targetwas when hedropped, what weapons heheld, the vantage point of the operator when he fired, and other atmospherics. The member of SEAL Team Six claiming to have shot and killed Osama bin Laden in a daring night raid in May 2011 is Robert O'Neill, multiple news sources have confirmed. The request was approved and Slabinski was promoted. If you have multiple incidents where the ground force commander pulls the trigger on a deployment, you have a total breakdown of operational tactics, said one retired SEAL leader. Although the stoppage was not limited to the SEALs, his former unit pushed back against a new set of operational guidelines. What's more, they found. The pilot who had warned that one of the helicopters would stall was right. By 2007, when Howard and Red Squadron showed up with their hatchets in Iraq, internal reports of operators using the weapons to hack dead and dying militants were provided to both the commanding officer of SEAL Team 6 at that time, Capt. They each entered Red Squadron at the same time, and were both recipients of the Winkler hatchets handed out by Wyman Howard. The operational tempo was very high. As attorney and crime author Andrew Vachss once wrote, "it takes a village to rape a child." The criminals are ultimately enabled by everyone around them who maintains the code of silence. You will step over the line and you start dehumanizing people. The hatchet was too intimate, too closely aligned with a tomahawk, to have been a good idea. The former SEAL, who himself had served in Red during his career, said that by giving operators the weapon of their battlefield persona, Howard sent an unmistakable message to his men: Use it. In 2014, ONeill unveiled himself as the man who killed bin Laden in an hourlong Fox News special, just as Bissonnette published a second book. It was really good therapy for everybody who was there.. Richard Phillips, captain of the commercial vessel the Maersk Alabama, in April 2009 from Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. In that operation, Hyder led a team of Red operators on a nighttime mission to capture suspected al Qaeda militants in a compound. Afghanistans Paktia province is about the size of New Hampshire, with 10,000-foot ridgelines and arid valleys with dried riverbeds below, nestled along the border with Pakistans tribal areas. His superiors believed he had become unglued over the 2007 deployment. What we didnt do was turn him in. Tyrese wasn't happy with Chris Rock for taking shots at Jada Pinkett Smith and shared his thoughts with fans via Instagram. Two different SEALs, Robert ONeill and Matthew Bissonnette, have publicly taken credit for killing bin Laden. Often wed hear, well, theyre savages, the former leadersaid. Both operators were accused of breaking with standard operating procedure to get themselves in position to be among the first to see or kill bin Laden. We killed bad guys. At DEVGRU (Team 6 to the uninformed) they have a Grave Stone / Rock of Shame. The former SEAL leader said the extensive amount of training for the mission, combined with Bissonnettes planning role, gave both men ample opportunity to find ways to put themselves on the third floor, in a good position to kill bin Laden. Tactically, there was little about the upcoming raid that was complex. Bissonnette eventually settled his legal case with the government, agreeing to return $6.7 million in profits from the sale of No Easy Day and giving up any proceeds from future sales of the book. Howards distribution of the hatchets worried several senior SEAL Team 6 members and some CIA paramilitary officers who worked with his squadron. One former SEAL Team 6 leader who was involved in the raid told me he was never too concerned about the discrepancies between ONeills and Bissonnettes claims. Moore, sitting in his office in Virginia Beach, pressed Vasely: What had he actually seen? Against this backdrop, in 2006, Hugh Wyman Howard III, a descendant of an admiral and himself a Naval Academy graduate, took command of Red Squadron and its roughly 50 operators. Top:Photo of helicopter onTakur Ghar. Oh my gosh. Unlawful violence, aberrations from rules of engagement, mutilations, and disrespect of enemy casualties, actions that had been isolated at the beginning of the Afghan war, had by this point spread throughout SEAL Team 6. You really do. Hyder, who was the ground force commander for the Kandahar operation, was cleared in an after-action review of the shooting. While he was there, he confronted the Blue Squadron troop and the operator whod tried to behead the Taliban fighter. Mutilation isnt part of the game.. Two hours passed before the SEALs in the damaged helicopter were able to return. First, the SEALs would now be required to do call outs before entering a compound. Consider what the world of media would look like without The Intercept. Outside the main entrance stands a 30-foot trident sculpted out of a fragment of the World Trade Center. Bin Laden dropped and ONeill fired the security round that canoed him. The intention was to permit women and children to get out of harms way before operators conducted their assault. Slabinski told MacPherson that Wolverine had been really good payback., Just a phenomenal, phenomenal day. A Predator drone video feed filmed an enemy fighter standing over Robertss body for two minutes, trying to behead the dead American with a knife. This was a crucial moment: Kill bin Laden now and the war could be over after only six months. Howards critics argue that the hatchets were emblems of the rogue, at times criminal, conduct on the battlefield the commander was encouraging. One former SEAL Team 6 leader told me that he feared the practice would lead to members of the unit using the DNA samples as an excuse to mutilate and desecrate the dead. By the time Robert ONeill entered Osama bin Ladens bedroom in the Abbottabad compound on May 2, 2011, the al Qaeda leader was bleeding out on the floor, possibly already dead, after being shot in the chest and leg by the lead assaulter on the raid. Brian Snyder; Instagram. Bissonnettes helicopter crashed into bin Ladens side yard. At that point, Hyder began assessing the damage and surveying the dead. Red came to a stop and fired two shots with his suppressed rifle. We couldve used the intel. Outside the compound, the SEALs were quick to show the photos to others on the assault team. O'Neill has gone. Thats whats wrong with my community, the former SEAL Team 6 leader told me. One of Bissonnettes teammates then put his gun through the front door, which was now slightly ajar, and shot the gunman in the head. Instead, as Red began his ascent to the third floor, they followed him up, hoping to get in on the kill. The operation commanded high-level interest because Norgrove, though in Afghanistan as an aid worker for DAI, an American NGO, secretly worked with Britains MI-6, according to four U.S. military and intelligence sources. Bravo 3/3B. Today, heis a paid on-air commentator for Fox News and is reportedly eyeing a run for the Senate in his native Montana. Allowing a lack of integrity to grow and develop within any organization will lead to abuses like it or not. A joint NCIS-FBI investigation into whether he disclosed classified material in the book lasted two years. SEALs were given wide berth as long as they could explain why they made the decision to shoot an unarmed person. Smethers threatened to expose the SEALs for what he believed was a series of war crimes; the canoeing incident was just one of several operations in which Smethers alleged that Gold Squadron operators violated the laws of war. After a short while, he quietly left the base. He reminded us all that our first loyalty was to the Constitution.. Bravo 2/2B. These names are on this rock because these people conducted themselves in a way that did not bring glory to the teams. Former Seal Upvoted by Edward Tomlinson , former Damage Controlman at United States Navy (1988-1992) and Pavanne Halpin , former Manager of Pacemaker/Holter Clinic at United States Navy (2001-2005) Updated 7 mo Bad news. His actions, if proven in a court of law, should be punished accordingly. Shortly after that operation, Slabinski returned to the SEAL Team 6 base at Dam Neck. But they are a great way of being part of a team. Instead, he heldthemback long enough for his teammates, including ONeill, to enter the bedroom. Bottom right: Undated photo of Adm.Wyman Howard. 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