Ex-Navy SEAL in bin Laden raid is banned by Delta for refusing to wear mask

A former Navy SEAL who mentioned he killed Osama bin Laden was banned by Delta Air Lines this week for not sporting a face mask on a flight, in accordance to an individual aware of the matter.

U.S. carriers all require vacationers wear masks on board flights, a part of their effort to ease issues about flying through the Covid pandemic and stop the illness from spreading to passengers and crew. Airlines have taken a hard-line stance, telling vacationers they are going to be denied service if they do not wear a mask on board and have even banned some who violate the coverage, together with high-profile passengers.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends individuals wear fabric face coverings in “public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.” The CDC says sporting a mask may help cease that individual from spreading the illness to others, and warns that some individuals may transmit the illness even when they have not but developed signs.

Robert O’Neill, who has greater than 380,000 Twitter followers, tweeted a selfie on board a Newark-bound Delta flight on Wednesday, not sporting a mask. Other vacationers in the body wore them. The tweet was later deleted. O’Neill didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

O’Neill, who instructed The Washington Post in 2014 he shot and killed the al-Qaeda chief in the 2011 raid in Pakistan, is hardly the primary individual Delta has banned for violating the mask coverage. Delta has put round 130 individuals on its no-fly checklist for failing to wear masks thus far.

“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,” a Delta spokesman mentioned in an announcement. “Failure to comply with our mask-wearing mandate can result in losing the ability to fly Delta in the future.”