For Navy SEALs, The Biggest Threat May Be Hollywood

For Navy SEALs, The Biggest Threat May Be Hollywood

They can handle al Qaeda and the Taliban. What worries America’s most celebrated fighting force is the lure of Hollywood’s siren song.

by Daniel Klaidman  | November 5, 2012 1:00 AM EST

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/11/04/daniel-klaidman-the-seals-biggest-threat.print.html

Long after the sun had dipped behind the high peaks of the Hindu Kush, on a moonless night four Navy SEALs fast-roped down from a Chinook helicop­ter onto an isolated ridge. It was June 27, 2005, and the elite team of American warriors was on a kill or cap­ture mission—code-named Operation Red Wings—in the heart of Taliban country. Their target was a tribal fighter named Ahmad Shah, whose attacks had taken a high toll on U.S. Marines in the area.