Delta may ban ex-Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden for anti-mask post

The ex-Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden and posted a since-deleted photo of himself without a “dumb ass” mask may be subjected to some Delta force – as the airline is considering banning him for his stunt.

“I’m not a p—y,” former SEAL Team Six member Robert O’Neill, 44, tweeted alongside a photo of him smiling in his seat with a man wearing a US Marines cap in the background.

Followers took his post as a direct attack on his fellow passenger — with some even noting it was the same slur as he had used for the al Qaeda leader.

Among those who took umbrage was actress Alyssa Milano, who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this year.

“You do realize you may be a-symptomatic and give the virus to other people that could potentially kill them. I think that makes you a sociopath,” she said in a tweet.

“Besides, p—-s are actually so strong that we can deliver human beings out of them. Please, I’m begging you, wear a damn mask,” she added.

The former commando fired off a response, insisting that he does wear a mask.

“This attempt at a joke did NOT go over well,” he wrote.

“This was not a dig at the Marine behind me. I love Marines…” he wrote in another tweet in which he shared an article in The Post – and also claimed his wife was the one who deleted his offending post.

“I am not the bad guy. I killed the bad guy,” he added later.

Delta Air Lines said that O’Neill may face a ban.

“We’re aware of this customer’s tweet and are reviewing this event. All customers who don’t comply with our mask-wearing requirement risk losing their ability to fly Delta in the future,” airline rep Kyla Ross told The Post.”

“Medical research tells us that wearing a mask is one of the most effective ways to reduce the COVID-19 infection rate,” she added.

Last week, Delta CEO Ed Bastian told CNN the airline had already banned dozens of people for refusing to wear masks.

O’Neill has repeatedly expressed skepticism about the seriousness of the coronavirus — which has already killed about 173,000 people in the US — and the efficacy of masks, which he has called a “novelty,” The Intercept reported.

The former SEAL fired three shots into the head of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during a top-secret May 2011 raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

His Twitter bio reads, “I shot a famous guy. Thrice.”

But his former teammates credit another operative with killing bin Laden before O’Neill entered the room and pumped the rounds into his head, The Intercept notes.

His name was added to SEAL Team 6’s “rock of shame,” an unofficial list of pariahs from the famed unit, the outlet said.

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