GentPc OP t1_itoh374 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 3:27 AM

Reply to comment by GodHatesGOP in TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published. by GentPc

I actually just finished a book about Seal Team Six and how it's become ruled not by the rules of warfare but by a protect your own mentality. Bissonnette and Robert O'Neil both wrote books about the raid (O'Neil has claimed to be the one who fired the kill shot on OBL even though pretty much everyone involved says he didn't) but O'Neil waited until he was out of the Navy before he wrote his. Bissonnette was still active duty when he wrote his.