Clint emerson biography

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    • An upbringing in Saudi Arabia to taking down bin Laden: The intriguing past of SAS Australia’s Clint Emerson

    Aussies may only know Clint Emerson as SAS Australia‘s new straight-talking DS from Texas, but the 47-year-old has one of the most decorated military careers in history.

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    Clint served a as a Navy SEAL combat medic, spending 20 years conducting special operations all over the world before retiring in 2015. Most notably, he was part of the elite SEAL Team Six, who was responsible for taking down Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

    But spending time in Afghanistan and Iraq on tour wasn’t a culture shock for the veteran, as he grew up in Saudi Arabia for his father’s job at an oil company. 

    “Westerners are not exactly treated the best in Saudi Arabia, and as a child I didn’t care much for the people or the culture,” he told Texas Monthly in 2015.

    “As an adult, I und