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Navy SEAL Who Shot Osama Bin Laden Speaks to Redskins at Team Meeting

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Former Navy SEAL Team 6 member Rob O'Neill spoke to Washington Redskins coaches, staff, and players at their team meeting today. Pierre Garcon posted this picture and message on his instagram account tonight.

We had the honor of meeting and listening to a real HERO tonight before our game tomorrow and he's a Redskins fan. Navy Seal Team 6 Rob O'Neill thank you for the inspiring words. #HTTR

O'Neill described his role in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden earlier this year. The story of bin Laden's capture was dramatized in the movie "Zero Dark Thirty" in 2012.

"O’Neill confirmed to The Washington Post that he was the unnamed SEAL who was first to tumble through the doorway of bin Laden’s bedroom that night, taking aim at the terrorist leader as he stood in darkness behind his youngest wife. In an account later confirmed by two other SEALs, the Montana native described firing the round that hit bin Laden squarely in the forehead, killing him instantly.

More than three years after the events, O’Neill agreed to publicly discuss his role for the first time, describing in unprecedented detail the mission to capture or kill the man behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington."

O'Neill was also part of the Navy Seal team that assisted in the 2009 rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips from Somalian pirates. This story was turned into a movie, "Captain Phillips" starring Tom Hanks in 2013.

He was also part of the group that helped retrieve Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of a four-man team attacked in 2005 while tracking a Taliban leader in Afghanistan. The mission was featured in the 2013 film "Lone Survivor."