Inside, they found six militants, four in one room, all sleeping with weapons near their beds. The Virginia Beach company Nolan founded, OmniTrade International Inc., signed contracts to sell millions of dollars worth of goods such as food and construction materials in Egypt, said Stephen Steinhilber, a former Nolan business associate and Virginia Beach restaurateur. Seal While on active duty, hed formed a consulting company with four other SEALs and secured a contract with one of the commands biggest equipment suppliers. The truth about what happened in bin Ladens bedroom may never be fully known. The SEALs biggest concern was how much time they would have, which was dictated by the amount of fuel the two Black Hawks could carry for the round trip. Some pretenders to glory spin wondrous yarns. He assumed it was a twisted act of misplaced revenge over the previous days events specifically, the gruesome death of Hyders teammate Neil Roberts. Top right: Robert ONeill with his tattoo of two bloody feathers, representing his kills. ``I asked him how he got through the hellhole in Hanoi,' Schantag said. They didnt know it, but Roberts was already dead, shot at close range in the head shortly after his helicopter departed the mountaintop. Slabinkski and others in the squadron had fallen under the influence of an obscure war novel, Devils Guard, published in 1971 by George Robert Elford. He told a girlfriend ``he had been involved in covert operations and knew how to make bombs.'. After more than 30 years in special operations, he knew that elite forces would inevitably cross ethical, moral, and legal boundaries if they were given too long a leash. For several years afterward, the leaders at the command limited Slabinskis battlefield exposure assigning him to Green Team as an instructor, for example hoping the psychological wounds from Roberts Ridge would heal. In the early years of the war, SEAL Team 6 had an inflexible standard: Shooting people who were unarmed was forbidden and anyone who did so had to demonstrate the targethad displayed hostile intent. Slabinski told Vasely, and later, Navy investigators, that there had been no foul play.. Hyder finished his tour at SEAL Team 6 shortly after returning from the Afghanistan deployment and was later promoted to the rank of commander, the Navy equivalent of a lieutenant colonel. By the time Slabinski entered the room where the dead militant lay, according to three former SEAL Team 6 leaders, the operator had severed much of the dead mans neck. Several of us confronted the officers, said one former noncommissioned officer who tried to stop the criminal behavior. Like Vic Hyder, he struggled to command the respect of his men.
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