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Hahahaha guys, I've been partying since I heard the news, including tonight.

President Obama does deserve some credit. This was a very, very gutsy call to launch this operation 120 miles into Pakistan, especially really not giving Pakistan much of a choice if they happened to resist, and they didn't, and refusing help from any Paki ground troops. So many things could have gone wrong. It was a small team, the usual U.S. Army SF (Special Forces for those not familiar) A-team has 12 members, a Captain which is the Operations Commander, a Warrant Officer that pretty much advises the CO(Commander) and takes care of all the technical work like getting transports from point A to point B, and he also will take command in the event the CO is killed or injured. Now to the enlisted..You have 10 of these usually, an Operations Sgt (Master Sgt), Weapons Sgt (SFC=Sgt First Class), Engineer Sgt (SFC), and finally a Medical Sgt (SFC).

All of those enlisted each have an assistant, which is usually a Staff Sergeant, and that makes 12. This is pretty much what the team that took Bin Laden down, whether it was SEAL Team Six or Delta Force or more likely a combination of both.

The news reports I've seen and what my unit has heard was that it was a JSOC/CIA operation, with JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) doing the military work and the CIA getting the intel along with the military and various other U.S. Intel agencies and definitelyhaving two to six operators from the CIA Special Activities Division's Special Operations Group (SAD-SOG), the elite of the elite with their operators recruited straight out of units like 1st SFOD-D and SEAL Team Six, on the ground along with the military personnel. By the way, a little info on JSOC. JSOC is not to be confused with U.S. SOCOM (United States Special Operations COMmand). SOCOM is the head command of all Special Operations Forces in the U.S. Military, with the main players being JSOC, U.S. Army Special Forces/U.S. Army Rangers, MARSOC (Marine Corps Special Operations Command, the newest and youngest special operations unit in the U.S. military having been created only in 2006), U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command and the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command.

JSOC is the most specialized in Counter-terrorism, secretive about it's actions, and pretty much the best of the best of the 4 war-fighting services in the U.S. military. Their mission is to make it easier for the different services' Special Operations Forces and civilian agencies, such as the CIA's SAD (Special Activities Division), to work together and get the mission done and to eliminate communication mix-ups and services competing against each other for the missions and operations. It has went far beyond those goals and is no beast to be messed with.

Within JSOC, there are three units, two of which are our only Tier One units in the U.S. military, called Special Mission Units (SMU). They perform the most classified operations our country has ever seen, and most of the time, Americans never learn about what they do. From what I know, only three SMU units have been identified, which doesn't mean there isn't more. MARSOC (MarineCorpsSOC) is the only service SOF that isn't part of JSOC, but they do work with them pretty frequently. In my opinion, MARSOC and it's subordinate units will continue to gain experience and will become a part of JSOC as well. The three current JSOC SMU's are:

-The U.S. Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D, Delta Force) [Tier One]
-The U.S. Navy's Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU, SEAL Team Six)
-The U.S. Air Force's 24th Special Tactics Squadron (24th STS)

The Intelligence Support Agency is part of JSOC, too. The ISA does just what it's name says...gathers intel, provides it, and supports the SMU, JSOC, and eventually SOCOM and the entire U.S. military. They can also engage in PSYOPS (Psychological Operations) and signals support, among many other missions. Also, JSOC can take command of SOCOM Army units 160th SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment, probably the best aviation unit in the world) and Army Rangers when it needs to and if it's plausible.

The info about the U.S. Navy SEALs in this mission isn't that they conducted it solely and alone, which is highly unlikely. It's that they were "involved", which is a key giveaway to JSOC. It would be my guess that the helo's and pilots that flew them in were from the U.S. Army's 160th SOAR, and the attacking force was a combination of the Army's Delta Force, SEAL Team Six, and the CIA's SAD.

Some other information I've gotten while writing this ridiculous rant trying to help you all understand this very historic event better is that when our team/s broke into the actual room Bin Laden was in, he was given a chance to surrender, probably in usual military fashion with guns up, everyone closing in on him and yelling "get the f*** down!". He decided not to, so he went to Allah.

lol, that was one **** of a rant, but I hope I helped some of you that aren't all that familiar with the military understand it, this operation, and the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

In my opinion, Al-Qaeda is angry, and they'll try their best to come up with something to get back at us for killing their leader. It's expected, what would we do if the enemy killed our leader? Anyway, quite alot of reporters, who think they know about the military but have no clue, think that there's a good chance of an attack here in America...I don't believe that. I've seen it first hand..Yemen is Al-Qaeda's biggest safe-haven, and you all have seen me saying that for months and months. We have had Army SF and JSOC teams there since the 07'-08' time frame, but President Obama really revamped our effort over there with training of the Yemeni Army, AF, and Navy, along with U.S. teams conducting operations with Yemeni's troops and using our un-matched air power to kill many, many Al-Qaeda members.

With the unrest in Yemen currently and the AQ presence in Yemen and the surrounding areas, the entire Arabian Peninsula is at stake. Our SOF need to and will shift more focus to that area to finally stomp out Al-Qaeda once and for all now that their leader is shark ****.


Good job men.