Washington, Sept. 12 (ANI): US President Barack Obama's officials endangered the entire Navy SEAL Team Six by publicly indentifying them as the team that killed Osama bin Laden, the parents of one of the members of the team said.
The parents of Aaron Vaughn, a member of SEAL Team Six, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2011, said this as part of an ongoing report on the war in Afghanistan.
According to the New York Post, while the Vaughns do not believe their son was part of the bin Laden mission, they said that the entire team shared the victory, and eventually the shock, of being named.
"Aaron called me and said, 'Mom, you need to wipe your social media clean of any reference to me or any of my buddies. Just disconnect completely,'" Karen Vaughn said.
Her son warned after Vice President Joe Biden publicly identified the SEALs on May 3, 2011, two days after the raid.
"He [Aaron] actually said to me, 'Mom, there's chatter, and all of our lives could be in danger, including yours' ... then I realized all of those families, you know, you're talking about a community of around three hundred families who were all of a sudden made targets by this administration," she said.
According to the report, the Vaughns said that the terror strike gave their son the drive to join the elite Navy SEALs, adding that a "passion stirred in his heart."
Aaron's father Billy Vaughn said that it was a betrayal to identify these selfless young men who put their country before everything else, the report added. (ANI)
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