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Into History.

com. It's 1115 PM on May 1st, 2011 in the airspace above Pakistan.

On board a heavily modified Black Hawk helicopter,

US Navy SEAL Matt Pissinette grips his assault rifle and glances

through the window at the countryside hurtling pass below.

Matt is one of a dozen highly trained and heavily armed Navy SEALs squeezed

onto the helicopter.

Another 12 men are on board a second Blackhawk flying through the darkness next to them in close formation.

Matt has been a Navy SEAL for 12 years.

He served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan,

but this is his most important mission yet.

It's so critical that it's a secret even from the Pakistani government.

The two helicopters are flying fast and low to avoid radar detection.

That makes for a bump ride, though,

and Matt holds on tight to his safety harness as the helicopter shutters.

The pilot calls out that there's one minute to target, and Matt feels a spike of

adrenaline surge through it.

He connects his special fast descent rope to the helicopter's iron T-bar.

The plan is for the helicopter to hover over the target, which is a compound surrounded by a 12-foot-high concrete wall.

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