No Easy Day

ABH1 (SEAL)

MATTHEW J. BOURGEOIS

HMC (SEAL)

JERRY “BUCK” POPE

ENS (SEAL)

*List courtesy Navy SEAL Foundation

CONFIRMING SOURCES

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Mark Owen is a former member of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, commonly known as SEAL Team Six. In his many years as a Navy SEAL, he has participated in hundreds of missions around the globe, including the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean in 2009. Owen was a team leader on Operation Neptune Spear in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 1, 2011, which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Owen was one of the first men through the door on the third floor of the terrorist mastermind’s hideout, where he witnessed Bin Laden’s death. Mark Owen’s name and the names of the other SEALs mentioned in No Easy Day have been changed for their security.

Kevin Maurer has covered special operations forces for nine years. He has been embedded with the Special Forces in Afghanistan six times, spent a month in 2006 with special operations units in east Africa, and has embedded with U.S. forces in Iraq and Haiti. He is the author of four books, including several about special operations.

PHOTO INSERT

^{An Afghan military gun truck sits in the mountain pass between Bagram and Kunduz. Due to the severe weather conditions, winter deployments tend to be less active than summer deployments.}

^{A view from our base in central Afghanistan. During my deployments in Afghanistan, the natural beauty of the country often struck me.}

^{My primary weapons: a Heckler & Koch MP7 with suppressor (top); a highly modified M79 40mm grenade launcher, a.k.a. the “pirate gun” (middle); and a Heckler & Koch 416 assault rifle with a ten- inch barrel and suppressor (bottom).}

^{My assault kit organized during an Afghanistan deployment. Visible are my pistols, assault rifles, helmet with NVGs, and my sixty-pound vest including ballistic plates.}

^{A ballistic helmet outfitted with the latest generation of night-vision goggles, helmet-mounted flashlight, and IR strobe. The four tubes on these NVGs allow better peripheral vision than the standard two-tube goggles. The IR strobe is vital when dealing with helicopters and other aerial assets.}

^{The open ramp of our C-17 moments before we jumped into the Indian Ocean on the Captain Phillips rescue.}

^{HAHO training over the Grand Canyon.}

^{Members of DEVGRU coming in to land during HAHO training.}