For 15 years, Robert James O’Neill served in the prestigious Navy SEALs and ended his military career as a member of the elite SEAL Team Six. As The Washington Post reported, this career saw him participate in a series of dangerous missions that included the rescue of merchant marine Capt. Richard Phillips, whose story was later dramatized in the 2013 film Captain Phillips.
However, O’Neill is best known for being the first to breach the infamous terrorist leader Osama bin Laden's bedroom at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and for firing the shot that ended Al-Qaeda founder's life in 2011. He has since started working as a motivational speaker.
Yet a recent tweet aboard a crowded flight has left Twitter users finding it hard to reconcile his military heroism with an apparent disregard for his fellow passengers.