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re: Benghazi Whistleblowers: Reinforcements told to stand down/Refusal of help
Posted on 5/6/13 at 10:42 pm to North Texas Tiger
Posted on 5/6/13 at 10:42 pm to North Texas Tiger
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North Texas Tiger
First of all, thank you for what you do.
There are slight differences to your profession and mine. Every day when you stand roll call, you know that you could have a potentially violent encounter. You enter your patrol car armed and mentally prepared.
Being a Soldier on a training exercise is not the same. You may (or may not) have some live ammunition with you. Small arms only ( depending upon what type of range you are at) at best. You would probably not have a full complement of ordnance (combat load) with you. Arranging ground transportation to an airfield, coordinating air transportation, where will you land, how will you be transported to the site, communications procedures, link up procedures with those "in extremis", medical evacuation plans. There are a lot of moving pieces.
I know you meant well. Not even remotely comparable. That is why we build contingency plans and have units on alert status to be prepare for this.
Unfortunately, it is apparent this was not done.
This post was edited on 5/6/13 at 10:51 pm
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Posted on 5/6/13 at 10:47 pm to Wolfhound45
For seven hours they were under attack and we can't get any help to these people bS. This is the biggest cover up in the history of this country all because of an election campaign. I am not sure anything will come of this because of the corruption and the cess pool that is DC. The fact that this was covered up to get this guy re elected is treason. Why mitt romney let him off the hook in the second debate was when I knew the fix was in and he was a cissy like McCain was in 08, the republican party had a chance to bury this guy and pussed out again. We have gotten what we deserve.
Posted on 5/7/13 at 12:07 am to Wolfhound45
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Being a Soldier on a training exercise is not the same. You may (or may not) have some live ammunition with you. Small arms only ( depending upon what type of range you are at) at best. You would probably not have a full complement of ordnance (combat load) with you. Arranging ground transportation to an airfield, coordinating air transportation, where will you land, how will you be transported to the site, communications procedures, link up procedures with those "in extremis", medical evacuation plans. There are a lot of moving pieces.
I know you meant well. Not even remotely comparable. That is why we build contingency plans and have units on alert status to be prepare for this.
Solid post, full of excellent points!
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