Koch Overboard Jack told me how a retired SEAL officer and CIA operative had recruited SEAL Team guys for a commando op: to recon the underwater hulls — and especially the keels — of the …
Neil Roberts, first SEAL to die in Afghanistan. The original account: “Roberts fell out of the helicopter as it hurriedly left the scene of a grenade attack."
Posted April 4, 2002
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Another incomplete version of Roberts’s last moments emerged in a New York Times article on March 7 under the headline “Combat Mystery: Last Moments of Navy Man Still a Puzzle.”
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