To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense: The Matthew E. O'Neil Story

In the final episode O'Neil thanked U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Defense and Colorado Springs Police Department. He also thanked former Lockheed Martin employee  Steve Griffin,  former USA Boxing official  Dickie Wood , former football coach Carl Freyermuth, baseball coach Dwayne Follette, his parents and his brother. O'Neil re-emphasized that he killed in se...

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The incident between Senior Airman O'Neil and the terrorist took place at a business located off of a side street of North Academy Boulevard in Colorado Springs. O'Neil has stated that he believes that the car he was driving may have been tailed to the business. He drove a 1998 Hyundai Accent GL Sedan. O'Neil's car had 4 doors and was red. He has stated that he had never seen the terrorist before....

Operation   Southern   Watch was a military operation conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense from August 1992 to March 2003. United States Central Command's Joint Task Force Southwest Asia had the mission of monitoring and controlling the airspace south of the 32nd Parallell and 33rd Parallell in southern and south-central Iraq during the period following the end of the 1991 Gulf War until th...

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Suzanne M . Vautrinot (1959-) is a retired U.S. Air Force Major General . She was commander of 11th Space Warning Squadron at the time Senior Airman (E-4) Matthew E. O'Neil killed a domestic terrorist. Vautrinot served on active duty  United States Air Force from 1982 to 2013. Vautrinot graduated from Edison High School (California) in 1978. She was inducted into the Edison High School Hall of Fam...

O'Neil killed a terrorist with a kung fu punch. A kung fu punch can refer to the general concept of punching techniques in the martial art of kung fu, or it can refer to a specific type of punch, such as the one-inch punch. Kung fu punches emphasize generating power through body mechanics and coordination, rather than relying solely on arm strength. 

At the age of 17, O'Neil scored 1180 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. He passed 30 credits at The University of Massachusetts Amherst as a teenager in 1994 and 1995. O'Neil graduated with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems Management from Colorado Christian University in 2001. He graduated with a M.B.A. from Regis University in 2004. In his mid-twenties he was employed by Harvard University. O...

O'Neil is a former amateur boxer that competed in USA Boxing sanctioned matches in the late 1990's. He KO'd 1991, 1993 LSU National Baseball Champion Jeffrey Naquin on June 20, 1998. Naquin retained a full NCAA Division I athletic scholarship. Naquin signed sports memorabilia on Worthpoint and pictures of him playing baseball are for sale on eBay. O'Neil TKO'd 1997, 1999 US Armed Forces Superheavy...

At the time he was cleared O'Neil held an Associate of Applied Science degree in Information Technology from The  Community College of the Air Force . He graduated on February 11, 1999. O'Neil's immediate commanding officer while stationed in the Middle East was Captain Dickey Rounsaville. O'Neil worked as a truck driver, base telephone operator, and computer network administrator as an Airman Fir...

O'Neil was interviewed by Rich Bergeron on the Fight News Unlimited podcast for July 4, 2025 at the 26th minute. The interview lasted 25 minutes. O'Neil discussed his sports background and the incident that he had with a terrorist. O'Neil mentioned his training partner Shannon Berry during his interview with Bergeron. O'Neil mentioned the 2013 movie Lone Survivor and 2014 movie American Sniper dur...

O'Neil was stationed at  Al Dhafra Air Base  as part of  763rd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron  (EARS) from May 1999 until September 1999. 763rd EARS was in support of  Operation Southern Watch . When he was at a Colorado Springs business a Middle Eastern man with a foreign accent punched O'Neil as hard as he could, told him he was going to kill him, and said he had a partner. O'Neil landed a...