Delta Bans Alleged bin Laden Raid SEAL For Photo In NJ Flight

NEWARK, NJ — Robert O'Neill is a former Navy SEAL. He was allegedly part of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. But this week, he was banned from Delta Air Lines flights after posting a photo of himself without a mask on his way to Newark.

O'Neill, who gained notoriety after he told the Washington Post in 2014 that he was the man who shot and killed bin Laden during a SEAL Team 6 raid, tweeted a now deleted photo to his more than 380,000 followers in which he was without a mask while on a plane.

A Delta spokesperson said "as a matter of policy, I would not be able to share the details of any customer movements," but multiple reports say O'Neill was on a flight to Newark Liberty International Airport at the time.

Though it's now deleted, screenshots are forever.

This one, grabbed by the VetsForward Twitter account, shows the tweet, which reads "I'm not a p---y."

In the photo, O'Neill looks to have drawn an arrow toward a man wearing a mask, as well as a United States Marine Corps hat, as to indicate that, well, you get it.

A Delta spokesperson told Patch that "part of every customer’s commitment prior to traveling on Delta is the requirement to acknowledge our updated travel policies, which includes wearing a mask."

"Failure to comply with our mask-wearing mandate can result in losing the ability to fly Delta in the future," they added.

Delta announced in May that all customers would be mandated to wear masks or other face coverings while flying, and, according to CNBC, has placed roughly 130 customers on a no-fly list for failure to do so.

O'Neill has been using his moment of Internet prominence to troll the airline, while also engaging in a back-and-forth with comedian Steve Hofstetter.

"Thank God it wasn't Delta flying us in when we killed bin Laden ... we weren't wearing masks ...," he tweeted.

Hofstetter — who O'Neill claims to be a fan of — was less than impressed.

"Delta is a commercial airline, bin Laden wasn't killed during a pandemic, and other people on Seal Team 6 have said you didn't kill him," he wrote.

"Do you have no one in your life who can say "Hey, Robert, maybe don't tweet this one?"