Posted on 08/09/2011 5:34:14 PM PDT by Nachum
The chief of the secretive US special operations command has lobbied against the release of names of American commandos killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. Thirty US troops were killed on Friday when their Chinook helicopter was shot out of the sky in a remote Afghan valley, but in a break with Pentagon practice, the identities of the dead service members have not been released. The dead included 22 members of the elite Navy SEAL commandos and three Air Force special operators, and senior officers overseeing the special forces are reluctant to publicly identify the slain troops
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It’s all about the photo op.
Ditto. Totally disrespectful, COMMIE BASTARD.
Sure, why not put their families at risk, too?
I posted the thread with the drudge link of the pics of the fallenseals and soldiers. The damage is done.Screw the MSM and the Obama admin. But out of respect I think the thread I posted should be nuked. It is nice to wish them thoughts and prayers but there names and pics are not normal they never get glory publically for good reasons such as your article states. The Obama admin has big mouths.It makes me sick.
I thought I just saw all their names and pictures on yahoo news. Whatttt?
>It’s all about the photo op.<
That’s what he did in Iraq’s wounded center before the elections in 2007. When the ward officer said no to any photos taken inside while Odumbo was visiting, he reportedly pouted. God bless those fine soldiers and if i was a family member, I might actually lose it and strangle that kenyan turd.
“There were concerns expressed by the SOCOM (US Special Operations Command) commander about the safety of the members of the unit and their families and the families of the fallen,” a senior military officer told AFP.
Why the opposition for naming the dead troops?
Their names are all over the Al-Qaeda and Taliban network — they were well known to our “Afghan allies”.
I wonder if the MSM news will delete all of their names on the net and whoever was their SOURCE be fired immediately.
No, of course they won’t delete their names. The MSM is the voice of the communist Democratic faithful.
This was intentional. All of it.
Drudge took that link down and so did FR.
ABC news should delete that NOW!
OK, Joe Biden. Time for you to release their home addresses, wife and kids names, etc. /s
One of the local TV stations had a segment about one of the para-rescue airmen who was killed. Not sure who released the name tho.
He was local so it could have been friends or family.
why not break the practice? what could possibly happen? it’s not like their families would be in any danger... nah
/sarc
never forget, the left **loathes** the military. if they can toss them into a meat grinder, they will. if they can hose their families, they will.
I know more than one retired military member (one with a son having served in Afghanistan) that are beside themselves with anger and (almost) disbelief toward how the families weren’t notified first in the typical dignified military way before the media had the Chinook horror out.
We’ve cycled all the worst nasty words towards Obambam and this administration - where do we go from here???
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