CNN | He's the man who rolled into a bedroom in Abbottabad, Pakistan, raised his gun and shot Osama bin Laden three times in the forehead.
Nearly two years later,
the SEAL Team Six member is a secret celebrity with nothing to show for
the deed; no job, no pension, no recognition outside a small circle of
colleagues.
Journalist Phil Bronstein
profiled the man in the March issue of Esquire, calling him only the
Shooter -- a husband, father and SEAL Team Six member who happened to
pull the trigger on the notorious terrorist. It's a detailed account of
how the raid unfolded, and what comes after for those involved. The
headline splashed across the cover reads, "The man who killed Osama bin Laden ... is screwed."
"They spent, in the case
of the shooter, 16 years doing exactly what they're trained to do, which
is going out on these missions, deployment after deployment, killing
people on a regular basis, " said Bronstein, executive chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting. "They finally get to the point where they don't want to do that anymore."
Bronstein reported that
the man left SEAL Team Six in September. His family's health care
coverage ceased. Because he left before the 20-year mark, he gets no
pension.
