Rob O'Neill
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Got it.
Yeah, over 400 firefights, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
You've been all over.
Yeah, we were busy.
The bad guys can be everywhere.
Obviously, the bin Laden raid, I was part of that team.
What an honor.
But we rescued, same team rescued Richard Phillips.
We took off on my birthday in 2009, Good Friday, April 10th.
I was at my daughter's Easter tea party at her preschool and got a message that we're going.
And that was the first time that it ever happened from soup to nuts, like the call and then the rescue.
SEAL Team 6 was designed in 1980, had never been done.
This is 2009.
Wow.
Yeah.
And that tells you about mindset, doesn't it?
Yeah.
We went over there after an American who was in a lifeboat being towed by a U.S.
Navy destroyer without a plan because we just want to get him back.
But how are you going to do that?