In Iraq, in 2006, I was in charge of a SEAL task unit, and our job was to help conventional

forces secure and stabilize the city of Ramadi from evil insurgents who were torturing,

raping, and murdering the local populace.

And it was a complete war zone at the time.

And my SEAL task unit, task unit bruiser, we conducted hundreds of operations to support coalition forces on the ground and our operations consisted of

reconnaissance missions presence patrols direct action raids and sniper overwatches

to help out and support the u. US Army and the Marine Corps troops who had the

insanely difficult job of clearing the city, house to house, street to street, and neighborhood

to neighborhood.

And the fighting was brutal.

And there were many brave soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who took the fight to the enemy.

And many of those were wounded, and many were killed.

And the civilian populace in the city, they suffered heinous crimes against humanity committed

by the demonic insurgents.

And a couple of months into that deployment, we received some intelligence about a specific

al-Qaeda insurgent leader.

And he was one of the worst of the worst.

He had a reputation of absolute brutality he was a bloodthirsty boss in this evil death cult and the intelligence that we received

about him gave us a window of time and place and an

opportunity to kill him but the window was small and it was extremely high risk and the window

was small because this particular insurgent leader traveled frequently

and he never settled in one place for any length of time.

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