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Book · 2017 · Biography & Autobiography

The Operator

Firing the Shots that Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

by Robert O'Neill · Recommended by 4 people on 3 podcasts

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Robert O'Neal is a US Navy SEAL combat veteran he's also the host of the podcast the operator that's the name of his 2017 book as well which we highly recommend buying and reading.
Megyn Kelly · The Megyn Kelly Show · Nov 2023 Listen at 16:27

The best things said about it

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Recommended
The second book that I recommend it's called the operator and it's by Robert O'Neill and it's about the time when SEAL Team Six was deployed to go and kill Bin Laden.
Shaan Puri My First Million · Jul 2023
Recommended
Is it called the operator um it's a Navy SEAL book and he read it.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2023
Discussed
And then finally the operator which is basically the guy who killed bin laden and he like tells the story of finding bin laden and that was.
Noah Kagan My First Million · Dec 2021

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Why people recommend it

The Operator by Robert O'Neill is a gripping military memoir written by a United States Navy SEAL combat veteran that chronicles his high-stakes career and the historic mission by SEAL Team Six to eliminate Osama bin Laden. Joe Rogan brought up the Navy SEAL memoir on The Joe Rogan Experience, praising the author's compelling delivery in the audiobook. Megyn Kelly recommended the 2017 book on The Megyn Kelly Show while introducing O'Neill as her podcast guest and urging the audience to buy and read it. Shaan Puri featured the memoir on My First Million as the second recommendation in his curated list of historical and biographical reads, specifically noting its focus on the raid against Bin Laden. Noah Kagan also discussed The Operator on My First Million, highlighting the dramatic firsthand narrative of tracking down and confronting Bin Laden. Across these various podcast appearances, the speakers emphasized the book's thrilling depiction of modern elite military operations, its historical significance regarding a defining global event, and the raw, unfiltered perspective offered by a frontline participant in some of the most dangerous missions of the twenty-first century.

Every mention

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Joe Rogan is it called the operator um it's a Navy SEAL book and he read it 1
Recommended
“is it called the operator um it's a Navy SEAL book and he read it”
Megyn Kelly Robert O'Neal is a US Navy SEAL combat veteran he's also the host of the podcast the operator that's the na… 1
Recommended
“Robert O'Neal is a US Navy SEAL combat veteran he's also the host of the podcast the operator that's the name of his 2017 book as well which we highly recommend buying and reading”
Shaan Puri the second book that I recommend it's called the operator and it's by Robert O'Neill and it's about the tim… 1
Recommended
“the second book that I recommend it's called the operator and it's by Robert O'Neill and it's about the time when SEAL Team Six was deployed to go and kill Bin Laden”
Noah Kagan and then finally the operator which is basically the guy who killed bin laden and he like tells the story o… 1
Discussed
“and then finally the operator which is basically the guy who killed bin laden and he like tells the story of finding bin laden and that was”

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“we're calling it the operator podcast because my book's called the operator”

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