Robert J. O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL who claimed to be the one who killed Usama bin Laden, was arrested in Texas on misdemeanor assault and public intoxication.
  • tsz@lemmy.world
    75·
    10 months ago

    30 years after I get my first AOL disk, reddit cancels itself and I’m back getting news about Osama’s killer from AOL.

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    438·
    10 months ago

    This guy probably has so much PTSD and so much yearning for the adrenaline that war provided him.

    The Man who Killed Osama Bin Laden… is Screwed (Esquire)

    “I’m not religious, but I always felt I was put on the earth to do something specific. After that mission, I knew what it was.”

    Of course this guy is a violent drunk and a conservative! This country has treated him like SHIT.

    “No one who fights for this country overseas should ever have to fight for a job,” Barack Obama said last Veterans’ Day (2012)

    After sixteen years in the Navy, his body filled with scar tissue, arthritis . . . he gets from his employer and a grateful nation:

    Nothing. No pension, no healthcare for his wife and kids, no protection for himself or his family.

    He’s taken that as a calling - and become yet another angry conservative grifter. Speaking engagements, media appearances, tweeting hateful bullshit for attention. Since claiming he was The Shooter (of Osama) he’s claimed to have been a key member in other SEAL missions that have been made into movies. Who knows the truth? Nobody is allowed to correct him, and that’s why he can build this brand for himself.

    His shit stirring is always newsworthy and pushed in front of us. Anti-mask shit, transphobic shit. So I’m happy we can see his miserable personal failures, too.

  • dethb0y@lemmy.world
    241·
    10 months ago

    I mean to be fair assault and public intox are about what i’d expect out of most military vets. It isn’t like the VA’s giving them good mental health assistance after they return home.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      10 months ago

      Most?

      There are many traumatized combat troops out there, but most find help (despite the VA) and live lives out of the spotlight.

      And most of the military is just a huge interstate money laundering ring for big military contracting companies wasting our tax dollars.

      That said, mental health, pensions, and support systems by all measures need improving and we should all be pushing our congress to get off their asses and pay for it.

  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
    164·
    10 months ago

    I’ve noticed quite a bit of information posted from sources i don’t really recognize. I usually try to find an AP article if i can since most outlets are just quoting them anyway.

    Edit: people seem to think recognize = aware of. I don’t recognize AOL as a news source.