Probably a Morale issue. Many people signed up to go cave to cave and hunt that fucker down... If you knew it was over before you even finished training it could be a major demotivater.
I was active duty intel during that time I asked, while on deployment for OEF and transitioning to OIF, in an IOC, we got a report that "they got him" ...we all cheered, and our MGySgt broke out Cuban cigars.
Mostly you are too fucking busy to watch TV. Learning too much to give a shit about the world and so tired you gave no fucks either way. The bin laden event wasn't that big a deal even to us in the military at the time. We all thought something was wrong with it and I still do.
I wonder why they did not want you to know that? The general population knew right away. Obama used it as some kind of bragging right.
Probably a Morale issue. Many people signed up to go cave to cave and hunt that fucker down... If you knew it was over before you even finished training it could be a major demotivater.
Were you in basic around December/Jan 2002-2003?
no. Bin Ladin was killed in 2011.
I was active duty intel during that time I asked, while on deployment for OEF and transitioning to OIF, in an IOC, we got a report that "they got him" ...we all cheered, and our MGySgt broke out Cuban cigars.
It's probably Mandela effect.. Such a dilemna.
Mostly you are too fucking busy to watch TV. Learning too much to give a shit about the world and so tired you gave no fucks either way. The bin laden event wasn't that big a deal even to us in the military at the time. We all thought something was wrong with it and I still do.