CIF at Sigonella, Sicily SAT there with NO ORDERS in spite of USUALLY taking off for desperate ops with little or NO details beforehand.
Panetta lied about, “we needed waay more info”. Sources say THAT IS TOTAL B.S.
CIF operators say “in 95% of cases when we deploy were operating with less than a third of the data the pukes had on 9-11.2”
The only thing i can think of is they knew the enemy had AA guns on their technicals and that Bengazi was/is full of MANPADS so they feared shoot-down.