“Kill Missions” - NAVY Seal REVEALS What You WEREN'T Told About The Iraq & Afghanistan Wars
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
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Robert O’Neill explains how SEALs compartmentalize missions, protect their leaders, and stick to a unified truth. He shares Iraq combat stories, lessons from commanding officers, and how loyalty, responsibility, and leadership shaped life-or-death operations.
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| 0:00.0 | Nobody got in trouble, right? |
| 0:01.2 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:02.1 | And we're really good at, this isn't, okay, this, I don't want to sound wrong. We are really, really good at compartmentalizing what happens. And I would even tell my guy, my, because you got officers outside enlisted inside. And I don't want to put you in a position where you report to your commanding officer. I don't want you to be full of shit either. You tell the truth, but we're going to tell you what the truth was. |
| 0:23.4 | And... you're commanding off. I don't want you to be full of shit either. You tell the truth, but we're going to tell you what the truth was. And I'm serious. Because I don't want that Monday morning shit coming around. The best example of... They're going to tell you what the truth was. Yes, and it's going to sound exactly the way they're going to write the movie. Like three shots on the Somali Pirates, sure. But one of the examples I have is Iraq, one of the best summers of my life was 2007 in Iraq because I'm a young Navy SEAL, SEAL Team 6, I'm here to hunt people and I want to. So it was a very, I mean, we were, we were, we were, the gloves were taken off. |
| 0:55.1 | We're on kill missions to kill Al Qaeda because they're torturing the Sunnis. |
| 0:57.9 | Like they'll show up in town. |
| 0:59.0 | So we're going to find them and kill them. |
| 1:00.2 | And then the Sunnis start helping us. |
| 1:01.5 | But like, we would do target, target. If we only killed 11 guys in one night, we're like, why'd we waste our night? |
| 1:05.7 | Like, there's more out there. |
| 1:07.2 | But we're on, we would hit a target. |
| 1:08.7 | It's your target or not, but you find intelligence. |
| 1:10.7 | Oh, shit, the neighbor, he's got back. |
| 1:12.0 | So you run over there, hit the target, whatever. |
| 1:13.9 | And we were really good. |
| 1:14.7 | Like, we're on, we would hit a target. It's your target or not, but you find intelligence. Oh shit, the neighbor, he's got back. So you run over there, hit the target, whatever. And we were |
| 1:14.2 | really good. Like, we're not killing everyone. We're the more latitude, like when I bring up lawyers, the more latitude you give us, the better we're going to be. We're going to play shot. I'm not going to hurt these people. |
| 1:24.1 | We're the good guys. |
| 1:25.3 | Like the two-year-old son. |
| 1:26.2 | Al-Qaeda wouldn't have done that for us. |
| 1:27.6 | But we're going to do this, whatever. |
| 1:28.7 | But it's so fast because we want to leave before the sun comes up with our helicopter pilots can handle it, but I don't want to put them in danger, daytime shit. So when we would wear our, those like those quarterback things they wear, and we'd keep our maps and shit. And one of my officers kind of came in. |
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