Training and preparations

Training for U.S. Navy SEALs Team 6, also known as DEVGRU, began following the national security meeting held on March 22, 2011. Special training facilities resembling Bin Laden’s compound were set up on both coasts. In April 2011, the plans progressed, and the Navy SEAL teams began specific training using various tactical approaches on a replica of the Waziristan Mansion compound. Some security sources reported that U.S. Navy SEALs made two initial practice runs on April 7 and one on April 13th2011, prior to Operation Neptune Spear’s final run.John Brennon, one of White House counter-terrorism advisors, identified the initial point of the mission was to capture Osama bin Laden if he posed no threat. However, an unnamed U.S. national security official informed Reuters that the operation was, in fact, a kill mission and that Osama bin Laden didn’t have a chance to survive.