Tuesday's assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya achieved many results.
What it means in the coming days and weeks is that Obama may try to get the Libyan military to hunt down and detain those responsible for the attack — if that fails then the SEALs could be called in.
In his book No Easy Day, about the raid on Osama bin Laden, former SEAL Matt Bissonnette talks about getting ready for a combat deployment, meeting at Team 6 HQ in Norfolk, Va. and getting ready to go.
On that day Bissonnette asked a more experienced SEAL what he should bring. The senior SEAL stopped, looked at his new teammate and said: "Dude, what do you think you need to bring for deployment? Load it ... Bring what you think you need."
The following list is what Bissonnette said, in the book, he needed.
Body armor plates are able to stop up to three AK-47 rounds, but are only guaranteed to stop one
Some SEALs go "slick," and remove their plates, depending on different scenarios.
Factors like how far they're traveling, what kind of mission, etc., SEALs may just not wear them.
In "No Easy Day," Bissonnette says to a buddy: "If I get shot, don't tell my mom I wasn't wearing these plates."
Body armor plate carriers offer protection and are handy for storing all manner of necessary items
SEALs will surely have one of these.
Plate carriers help SEALs carry a few of the next 17 things.
Surprisingly, plate carriers don't always carry plates.
Helmets like this will stop shrapnel, but have also been known to deflect sniper rounds
Their brain buckets: No matter what, every soldier wears one.
Even the tiniest fragment, the smallest piece of high-velocity hot metal, can enter through soft tissue and puncture your brain—which may often leave fellow troops guessing as to what caused the death.
It's an absolute essential.
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