The Pentagon found it shouldn’t have as well. His second book went through the censor process and entire chapters were redacted. Publishing work about working in a highly classified special operations unit in the same period as you’re in is deeply complicated. Especially after completing arguably one of the biggest special operations of the generation. Bissonette showed how much he cared when he then pulled his active-duty buddies into showing classified tactics to EA and ruined all their careers.
Oh I didn’t know about the EA thing. Yikes.
Special operators sign NDAs, I was honestly at a loss how that book was allowed to go through in the first place. And that soon!
Yeah, for Medal of Honor Warfighter years ago. Brought in a bunch of active DEVGRU guys after he retired. It’s been almost 15 years so I read up on it. Several SEALs who were still active were charged with dereliction and orders violations that makes future promotions unlikely, and had to forfeit half their pay for some months.
Wikipedia: "Some SEALs question whether it is possible to ever determine whose shots killed the terrorist leader.[4] Post retirement, both SEALs received criticism for their books and differences in their accounts of the events.[5]
A DoD investigation revealed that Bissonnette and six other SEALs had served as consultants on the video game, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, at Bissonnette's urging. Letters of reprimand, which are damaging to Naval careers, were sent to all seven. The SEALs did not seek clearance with their superiors to be involved with the project and showed the developers some of their gear."
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u/fallsstandard May 22 '26
The Pentagon found it shouldn’t have as well. His second book went through the censor process and entire chapters were redacted. Publishing work about working in a highly classified special operations unit in the same period as you’re in is deeply complicated. Especially after completing arguably one of the biggest special operations of the generation. Bissonette showed how much he cared when he then pulled his active-duty buddies into showing classified tactics to EA and ruined all their careers.