Navy SEAL

Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL students in training in 2014. The Navy now has two female candidates to join the elite special operations forces for the first time since front-line combat jobs were opened to women.

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The Navy Gets Its First Female SEAL Candidate

6:17pm July 20, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Along with the SEAL officer candidate, another woman is up for an elite job as a special boat operator, some 18 months after the Pentagon opened front-line combat jobs to women.

Former Navy SEAL Matthew Bissonnette has agreed to forfeit "all of the proceeds" he received from No Easy Day, his book about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

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Politics & Government

Former Navy SEAL Settles With Authorities Over Bin Laden Raid Book

4:55pm August 19, 2016

by Carrie Johnson

Matthew Bissonnette, who wrote a best-seller about the Osama bin Laden raid, has agreed to pay more than $6 million to resolve civil breach of contract claims with the government.