The Theory and Practice of Special Ops But having said that, I mean, the troops are thoughtful. . And the answer was, millions of men and women, and particularly after 9/11. As the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, he led a force of 69,000 men and women and was responsible for conducting counter-terrorism operations worldwide. Cartwright, the Marine general, says, "If every time you knock one off all they do is replace him, how valuable was that, particularly if you could have been watching him? Stay up to date with what you want to know. And you know what? McRaven had to watch the American response on television as he recovered. And then he fired three rounds. Will one of those hundred people be the person that cures cancer? So I was doing a freefall operation out in Southern California outside San Diego. Over the next two years, McRaven became principal author of Bush's National Strategy for Combating Terrorism. He was running special operations in Iraq when Task Force 121, a clandestine unit under JSOC, tracked Saddam Hussein to his spider hole. I didnt want to because I didnt want him to think that he was somehow important enough to be able to engage El Jefe, as he called me. Retired Navy Adm. William H. McRaven has written a new book called, "The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived." McRaven knows about heroic deeds, having directed the 2011 U.S . He was one of your SEAL instructors who you call, quote, one of the most inspirational men that you knew. All the men went off to World War Two, and then they came back and rebuilt the country. and will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. "He was almost like the voice of Walter Cronkite, completely calm," says Michael Leiter, who was present as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. So I saw some young SEALs standing nearby. Late in 2010, you know, we were getting ready to pull out of Iraq by early 2011, for the most part, and yet, my guys were still conducting operations in downtown Baghdad. There he produced an original treatise, "The Theory of Special Operations," that the Navy credits with "considerable impact not only on the special-operations community but on [the Defense Department] at large." Do you mind recounting it? Tell me about the impact that Moki Martin had on you. Yeah, I mean, even to this day, the impact of Moki Martin is with me every day. I mean, it showed that we as Americans can do the hard things and do them well. This is a disturbing phenomenon to me because I dont believe our democracy long range is going to work unless theres an attitude in our society and particularly among our young, that they have an obligation of service. "All in all, a pretty good year," McRaven says, "but frankly it has been a big year for us really since 9/11.". Never once did he say, why me? So I reflect back on that 10 years ago and Im just proud to have been a small part of it. 2. In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, McRaven describes what should have been a "routine parachute jump." SINGAPORE: Four people were taken to the hospital on Saturday (Jul 10) after an early morning accident involving a taxi and a car at the junction of Bukit Timah Road and Selegie . And eventually, of course, the SEALs execute a mission that all of these guys, in terms of the tactics of it, had done hundreds of times before. "He was climbing the steps, and it was agony, step by step. Duty is among the virtues that you write about in the hero code. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. : Basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months. At the time, ST-6 was commanded by the legendary (and infamous) Richard . And the SEALs entering the room did absolutely the right thing and shot him, not knowing whether or not he was wearing a suicide vest or what was happening at that instant. He's sure he would have surrendered to self-pity and . INSKEEP: Admiral William H. McRaven is author of "Sea Stories: My Life In Special Operations." An unnerving silence descended as the camera stayed on the admiral's empty chair, his habitual yellow can of Rip It energy drink in the foreground. So, you know, there are times when you have to realize that the work you do, if it is good and honorable and it is trying to save people's lives, you have to take some comfort in the fact that that is good work. HOOVER: And you think that contributed to his decline in custody? And as I was descending, I noticed that there was . william mcraven on his time in the military and his criticism of president trump. When McRaven jumped he found himself falling at 125 MPH and hitting the parachute of another, who had deployed his chute too soon. And on the plaque is a Home Depot tape measure. Making your bed as easy to do. McRaven, who served as the ninth commander of the U.S. Special Operations command from . And the reason that I am so impressed with this generation, because the 9/11 generation, these young men and women that signed up after September 11th, that raised their hand and said, Im going to join the military, knew that they were taking on the risks, knew that they would probably go to war. Rochor exit ECP traffic accident involving a van and a car on 15 February 2017 around 9.34am. And now the Pakistanis, of course, are waking up to the fact that were there. You were in the joint operation center and you heard the C squadron commander who was on the ground saying, we have Jackpot. Take us inside the Joint Operation Center at that moment. We go through this cycle every couple of decades. INSKEEP: He wasn't in a very good position to negotiate, I suppose. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. You know, we had a lot of kind of heated discussions in the meetings I was in, but there was never any rancor. He was later memorialized in an eponymous film starring Tom Hanks. Now, a principle of democracy is, for every right there is a duty. Yeah, I couldnt hear any of that. I loved the sense of patriotism. When I went to visit guys in the hospital, they always said, I want to get back in the fight. Did you actually ever think that he would be captured alive? As you point out. Toward the end, with the assault team moving from room to room, McRaven stepped unexpectedly away from the screen. HOOVER: You know, Ive heard you say that you are the quote biggest fan of the millennial generation and generation and Gen Z. You wrote, quote, as long as I could wiggle my toes, I was going to stay a SEAL. You share the story of Moki Martin, the Vietnam era SEAL, who was partially paralyzed from a head-on bike accident. I love this sense of kind of duty, honor and country that I saw in this greatest generation. If you can't complete a small and mundane task each morning such as making your . It absolutely was not. I had to fly from Baghdad down to Al Udeid. You know, when we stood up an all volunteer force, I remember thinking initially, well, this will never work. And you think that contributed to his decline in custody? In 2014 Admiral William H. McRaven gave the commencement address at the University of Texas at Austin. I had received an intelligence brief the night before from one of the great noncommissioned officers that was part of the Saddam hunt. While nothing is definitive, "all indications are pointing to the fact" that Israel was behind a cyberattack that knocked out power at Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility over the weekend, retired U.S. Navy Adm. William McRaven said Monday, and he finds the allegations "a little disturbing" given that the U.S. and other countries are currently trying to renegotiate the 2015 Iran nuclear . The New American Commandos (Photo Credit: United States Navy / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) McRaven's plan was successful and bin Laden was killed by SEAL Team 6 on May 2, 2011. "Everybody will try to fix all evils with a success, but that only lasts until you screw something up," Cartwright says. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status. What were you seeing? McRaven grew up with war stories. MCRAVEN: Yeah, he wasn't in a real good position to negotiate. William McRaven, former University of Texas System chancellor and retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral, joined the school as a professor in national security in 2018. None had the full . Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, // A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. They just know me as the make your bed guy. Copyright 2019 NPR. The compound could still be booby trapped. He took the special out of special warfare.". Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal). So now I am tangled up in my parachute, falling towards the ground. And I took the opportunity to call up my boys and say, you know, my daughter was with us and explained it to her as well, that her life was about to change for dad. Dazed at the impact, he pulled his cord only to find himself tangled up in the parachute's lines. Then McRaven swung back into the picture. I went back to my little headquarters area, got back on the video with the president and the president said, OK, Bill, let me get this straight. Now, I would offer that I use the word premonition, but it was probably the fact that my brain was connecting the dots. Now, in the case of Saddam Hussein, it was pretty obvious. Sometimes you need a boatload of people to help you through. As chancellor, he oversaw 14 institutions that educate 221,000 students and employ 20,000 faculty and more than 80,000 health care professionals, researchers and staff. I said, good, come here and. Tell us about that. Youre watching PBS. But I'm stunned. I didnt want to engage with him because, frankly, I didnt want him to, at least psychologically, think that he was a VIP, that he was somebody important enough to be able to engage me in conversation. I don't know whether I've been dazed. Having said that, I knew bin Laden was about six foot four And I thought, well Im six foot two. We go through this cycle every couple of decades. I wonder what you think we can do to convince more people to make their beds every morning? McRaven: I was just honored to be part of the operation. He said, well sir Im six two. Navy Adm. William H. McRaven oversaw missions leading to Osama bin Laden's death. OBAMA: Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, // A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. And he became the overall commander of the US Special Operations Command, the rest is history. Yeah, theres a lot of people out there that think that this was a kill only mission. Im ok with that. MCRAVEN: Yeah. I mean, hes just a remarkable, remarkable inspiration. And I really didnt have any relief in terms of the mission until after all the helicopters had come back across the border, the Afghan border and were landing at the back at our base. The zeal and the desire to serve is not present to the extent that it was several years ago. And I was just honored to be part of the operation. She was seriously injured in a parachute accident. Sign up for notifications from Insider! You wrote, quote, as long as I could wiggle my toes, I was going to stay a SEAL. You share the story of Moki Martin, the Vietnam era SEAL, who was partially paralyzed from a head-on bike accident. This year, a decade later, their paths finally crossed. What do we need to do next? Theyre the superheroes. "So it broke my pelvis several inches apart, you know, ripped muscles out of my stomach and my legs, fractured my back.". An accident during a routine parachute jump in 2001 kind of snapped me in two, McRaven said in a 2019 interview. By way of example, O'Connor recounted a story told by Navy SEAL Adm. (retired) Bill McRaven on St. Patrick's Day in Savannah, Georgia, at a Hibernians Society dinner, "a few years back." (Full . But by then he and his young lieutenant had fallen out. (See TIME's 2008 Person of the Year: Barack Obama. But it was a relatively straightforward mission in terms of the first part of it. And then as we start to get into the December timeframe, we had another lead. And never once, never once in all those years have I heard Moki Martin complain about his lot in life. on. As the chief executive officer of the UT System, Chancellor McRaven oversees 14 institutions that educate 221,000 students and employ 20,000 faculty and more than 80,000 health care professionals, researchers and staff. Patient and ingenious work by U.S. intelligence agencies marked a spot tentative, but more likely accurate than not on the map. HOOVER: You know, you were also in charge of a very successful high seas rescue of Captain Phillips, who was held hostage by pirates off the coast of Somalia. And to this day, Moki oversees the triathlon that we run every year as part of our underwater demolition team and our SEAL fraternity. If bin Laden had his hands up and he clearly was not a threat which was going to be difficult because you dont know whether or not theyre carrying a suicide vest underneath but if he had come out of that room with his hands up and clearly not a threat, we had an obligation, a legal obligation, a moral obligation to capture him. But I also knew at that moment that life was about to change. "Frankly, I wasn't sure whether I had been knocked unconscious, so when I had the chance, I pulled my rip cord," McRaven told TIME. So by the time the helicopters had passed back over the border, now Im on the video with President Obama and his team. Leon Panetta, who joined the video call from CIA headquarters, told TIME's Massimo Calabresi that "all the air we were holding came out." Now, a principle of democracy is, for every right there is a duty. HOOVER: That night, you watched the raid from the Joint Operation Center, where you sat in a small closet with a view of the entire center while communicating privately with the White House. Yeah, it was actually a C-130. . No Americans were harmed. Yeah, well, having done thousands of missions before, you know, this was not an overly complicated mission. But that didn't keep McRaven from rising in the ranks of Navy special operations. The good news is, as I fell a couple hundred feet or a thousand feet or so, the parachute finally opened. So he didnt know my rank or my name. and a grotesque 2001 skydiving mishap that separated his pelvic muscles from the bone. I mean, hes just a remarkable, remarkable inspiration. The planning and decisionmaking for the bin Laden raid, he volunteers, "was really everything the American public would expect from their national leadership." And youve probably seen the iconic photo from Pete Souza. Every particular of his missions remains classified. as well as other partner offers and accept our. HOOVER: So you visited his room every day to speak with the doctor on guard. William McRaven: We were doing a freefall. Courage. And then, of course, when we get on target, we didnt know whether or not the entire compound was booby trapped, whether bin Laden was wearing a suicide vest, all those sorts of things added to the risk. But he was not going to have outside contact with any of his former Iraqi leaders. And every day that I went in, he tried to engage me in a conversation. MCRAVEN: You know, I think the military guys - what I know is, you know, we go where the nation asks us to go, and we do what the nation requires us to do. "[They] kind of snapped me in two," McRaven said. MCRAVEN: If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day and will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. HOOVER: We all remember those images of Saddam Hussein the moment that he was captured. Theres a lot of things that go on post operation. Bush famously kept a list of al-Qaeda leaders in his Oval Office desk drawer and drew an X over each face as the target was captured or killed. You got to find out, one, is everybody OK? Did you have a moment of relief at that point? Bring us back to this moment, will you, Admiral? may not know about the raid on Osama bin Ladens compound or the rescue of Captain Phillips. But they do know you as the make-your-bed guy. You know, he ate as well if not better than a lot of the soldiers that we had. Thank you for your service. You told the SEAL Team Six, This mission is to capture or kill bin Laden. So I saw some young SEALs standing nearby. With her father by her side, she laughed off the injury like it was a scratch. Today on the show, Admiral McRaven and I discuss why something as simple as making your bed every day can lay the foundation for success in every aspect of your life, how a parachuting accident taught him an important lesson on avoiding self-pity and learning to rely on the help of others, and why rolling in the sand as a . 00:23:10 He knew I'd been in a parachute accident. HOOVER: Bring us back to this moment, will you, Admiral? Photo by Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images, NOW WATCH: A Navy SEAL commander explains how he learned to never give up, had to watch the American response on television. Distance?. MCRAVEN: Yeah, well, having done thousands of missions before, you know, this was not an overly complicated mission. Nan McRaven says. Did you actually ever think that he would be captured alive? He graduated in 1977 with an ensign's commission, signed up for SEAL training, married Georgeann and deployed to the Philippines. That is not exactly the same as choosing two commandments to rebut in church, but it is provocative. And the answer was, millions of men and women, and particularly after 9/11. And every day when I would come in, he would try to engage me. But, you know, I think leaders know how to recognize other leaders. So if you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. And Ive seen it in this current generation, the millennials and the Gen Z. Operation Neptune Spear stripped al-Qaeda of its iconic leader and offered a kind of recompense for the traumas of 9/11. Image: Wikipedia.org. HOOVER: You write about a skydiving accident that you were in in 2001 that nearly cost you your life. And just something said, hey, we got to turn around, weve got to get back, because, you know, tonights going to be the night. But it wasnt the first time Id had a, quote, premonition. And as I would find out later, it wouldnt be the last time. Admiral, tell me about that premonition. But new leaders always stepped in. General William Westmoreland joined the original firing line with William F. Buckley Jr. in 1979 for a conversation called, quote, the crisis in the US military. It is a small task, but I think an important one. Admiral William H. McRaven, Address to Class of 2015, 18 January 2014. Updated at 5:38 p.m. Steve Inskeep asked him about a routine parachute jump in San Diego in the year 2001. But occupied France and John F. Kennedy are not what usually come to mind when special operators look for a reference point. INSKEEP: You write that somehow your staff sometimes lost people's paperwork. Again, this was 2003 so the technology wasnt quite as sophisticated as it is today. I never asked him the specific details. Admiral McRaven: ( 00:00) Thank you very much, thank you. They were children of World War One. He went right into Naval Special Warfare, serving in SEAL Team Six under its creator, Richard Marchinko who fired McRaven for being too rigid. On the downside, "relative superiority" does not last long. There are costs. He had leadership skills we'd expect from a guy who had 35 years in the military." 3 Min Read. "People like McRaven know that.". The guy stomped around on the floor and found this trapdoor, if you will. ", Secret Agent Man He has unique facial characteristics. MCRAVEN: Yeah, well, obviously, like a lot of people who watched it on TV, it was a horrifying moment for all of us. Firing Line with Margaret Hoover is made possible in part by and by Corporate funding is provided by Just like the young female sergeant who I just visited at Walter Reed this week. But at the end of the day, you have to confirm the jackpot. We all remember those images of Saddam Hussein the moment that he was captured. Adm. William McRaven, who oversaw the raid on Osama bin Laden's home, says as it went beyond the planned time, he feared Pakistani forces might find U.S. troops . And frankly, I didnt want to engage him in a conversation. "It has been since 9/11 that both their utility and then their expertise have become the cutting edge.". HOOVER: In your account of the rescue. It was an ideal post for a cerebral commando whose body needed mending. You had 60 million dollars for a helicopter, the one we had lost on the raid, and you didnt have ten dollars for a tape measure? And as Ive told folks, it was just the right amount of levity, just at the right time to kind of lower the stress in the room. The standard-issue AMC Eagle wagon was no kind of ride for commandos. And was in charge of SEAL Team Six during Neptunes Spear, the daring operation that took out Osama Bin Laden. I couldnt see what was going on inside the building. While freefalling, the man ahead of him deployed his parachute too soon, and McRaven collided with the chute as it opened. And then he fired three rounds. With her father by her side, she laughed off the injury like it was a scratch. And in the case of the rescue of Captain Phillips, the guys on scene made all the right calls. I had a moment of relief, you bet. US Navy Admiral William H. McRaven speaking at UT Austin's 2014 commencement. She was seriously injured in a parachute accident. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Each one was a metaphor for an important life area. Now, what I am getting, of course, is reports from the ground force commander when shots are fired. We know that theyre getting ready to launch aircraft to come intercept us. MCRAVEN: Yeah, well, he knew that I was in charge. This is a disturbing phenomenon to me because I dont believe our democracy long range is going to work unless theres an attitude in our society and particularly among our young, that they have an obligation of service. The most recent internal tally counted more than 2,500 such commando missions in and around Afghanistan over 12 months. William McRaven delivered MIT's 2020 Commencement address. And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made, that you made. He served in the first Gulf War and wrote the book on special warfare, "The Theory of Special Operations." But the fact of the matter is, I didnt want to engage with him. You wrote in your book. The Commander in Chief staked his presidency on a military plan with risks that daunted his Secretary of Defense. MCRAVEN: In Iraq and Afghanistan, of course, you saw these horrific injuries. So Im getting radio calls from the ground force commander. 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