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Look at the series of events. Team probably gets detected ( they might not have realized they were compromised) then attacked, calls for support right away. Now 1hour passes, thats eternity. Mujaheeded had time to setup for choppers (maybe before team was even hit), probably had an experienced person plan positions of the terrorists with guided missiles. Choppers come in, probably barrage of missiles is fired from different elevations etc. One goes down, at this point team if they are still alive is really in trouble, chopper crew has to be rescued too (nobody knows they are dead). It goes downhill from there (drone craft is shut down too, intelligence feed is cut). One got away somehow, hopefully he will be fine.

What went wrong probably is they got detected and did not know it happened. Being detected is bad enough, not knowing is lethal.

If it happened that way, then I agree it was definitely a bad scene. I always hate to hear about losing these sorts of soldiers. Every soldier is an incalculable loss, but these guys are some of our best. Prayers up for the survivor, and all the families!

...Look at the series of events. ....

The frightening part is that the tactics seem to come from Iraq (the rumor is that Saddam made his troops to watch Black Hawks Down to get ideas of the american tactics and moral, ie. the crew will be rescued, etc..).
And longer the war stretching there, more terroists will get trained there and get spread all over the world to cause harm....
I guess the key is to finish the job fast in Iraq.