No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

E Book No Easy Day


E Book No Easy Day


Most who apply don't make it, but they go back to being a "regular" SEAL which has nothing regular about it.
E Book No Easy Day
For the Bin Laden raid, they essentially assembled an All Star team of the most seasoned DevGru operators from multiple teams and put them together on a team consisting of the best of the best of the best.
E Book No Easy Day
My next takeaway on the actual raid itself was how many things actually went wrong. Here you have the best of the best taking part in a historic mission, and all kinds of things start falling apart. Yet, amazingly (to me), despite all the problems, it still worked out.
E Book No Easy Day
Thats because everything that could have gone wrong was previously anticipated, contingency plans made, and all back up plans were rehearsed multiple times.
E Book No Easy Day
While I considered the mission to be successful, the impression I get is the members of DevGru thought they could have done it much better. (I'll leave out the details as to avoid spoiling the story).
E Book No Easy Day