Bryan Stern remembers the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, not from a television screen, but from the front lines, as a first responder, in New York City. More than two decades later, the Tampa-based veteran and founder of Grey Bull Rescue is sharing his behind-the-scenes experiences as part of the Netflix documentary American Manhunt: The Search for Osama Bin Laden.
The series, which offers a unique look into the years-long intelligence operation to find the world’s most wanted terrorist, features Stern as one of the many who played a role in the global hunt that ended in 2011.
“What the documentary really does a good job with is showcasing all the, literally, tens of thousands of people from the intelligence community that worked for years,” says Stern. “The raid on Bin Laden was really the last 40 minutes of a 17-year-long operation.”…