Mark Owen Biography

After graduating high school in 1994, Bissonnette enrolled at Biola University, a small Christian college near Los Angeles, where he studied social sciences.

One of his former professors, Dave Peters, said that he had fond memories of Bissonnette and that the two attended the same church.

"I recall he was very independent. A fearless thinker," said Peters, who was surprised to learn of his former sociology student's post-graduate exploits.

Five months after graduating from Biola in 1998, Bissonnette enlisted in the Navy, according to Katie Suich, a spokeswoman for the Navy Personnel Command. The following spring, he headed to basic underwater demolition/SEAL training in Coronado, Calif.

He spent four years with a SEAL team in California before transferring to a Virginia Beach-based unit in 2004. Two years later, he was assigned to a different Beach-based SEAL team, where he stayed until leaving the service in the spring, Navy records show.

According to his book, that unit was SEAL Team 6, the top-secret team tapped to carry out the bin Laden mission.

Most information about the elite unit - formally known as Naval Special Warfare Development Group - is classified, but the team's exploits have increasingly been the focus of media attention.

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