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Hooten Young Honors U.S. Special Operations Forces with The Operator and Operation Neptune Spear Cigar Releases

July 4, 2023 Inspector Y 2 min read

Hooten Young, the company founded by Delta Force Master Sergeant Norm Hooten and his friend Tim Young to honour friends from the armed forces, will release The Operator and Operation Neptune Spear at the PCA Convention & Trade Show.

The Operator is made with an African Cameroon wrapper, Ecuadorian Habano binder, and an undisclosed filler that the company. It comes in a 6 ½ x54 Toro made at the Cordoba & Morales factory in Nicaragua.

The Operator is an homage to the “fearless yet humble professional of the U.S. Special Operations Forces with an extraordinary sense of physical and emotional grit,” according to a press release from the company
Operation Neptune Spear is a 6 x 50 toro, also made by Cordoba & Morales in Nicaragua. It’s made with Brazilian Mata Fina over an Ecuadorian Habano binder and Nicaraguan filler.

This cigar honours Operation Neptune Spear, the mission of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six, which led to the successful finding and killing of Osama bin Laden.

 

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