re: Benghazi Whistleblowers: Reinforcements told to stand down/Refusal of help

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North Texas Tiger

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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.