[Paul R.]

Of note: Our soldiers got a warning hours in advance, but it was a general warning: They didn't know specifically that missiles were incoming until a few moments before they hit. And... Look at what they hit. Rush was clearly wrong to say the Iranian military only hit "sand pits". The attackers were clearly not demonstrating that they "could hit us harder" with a grouping, say, at the end of a runway, away from potentially killing many. (It has been pointed out by other FReepers that these were fairly heavy warheads on not particularly precise missiles, and even if one assumes the Iranians didn't aim for highest casualties, if a missile hit a shelter bunker directly, anyway, the results could be deadly to many of our people.)

Also note the timing if the incoming as discussed in the vid - typical terrorist tactic.

[Paul R.]

I left out that apparently it was our own defense systems that gave the specific warning of incoming missiles, with scant moments to spare.

[wbarmy]

Only if you buy the story being peddled. A large prefab tent and a few blast holes, with closeups to make sure you do not see that the Air Base is fully operational.

I have been in bombardments and seen a lot of collateral damage like that. It doesn’t hurt the mission capability of the unit at all.

Maybe the unit got real advanced warning, or short notice advance warning, but it would take a direct hit, maybe more than one, to hurt the people in the bunkers.

[GOPJ]

Aren’t democrats pushing the lie that soldiers were killed? Isn’t this part of that effort? BBC? Makes our ‘progressives’ look conservative...

[ptsal]

Why would any military commander allow a reporter on base?
~~Gen. Stanley McChrystal