I think maybe your're assuming facts not yet in evidence. I would submit that perhaps there is more to the story than has yet been released. I'm just sayin'.
Just for drill let me restate the facts that seem to be present: Heavy chopper (47) lost w/crew, two SEALs KIA, one SEAL injured, there WERE two firefights, one firefight took place around 10,000 ft elevation.----and that's all I know about the events.
But I know some other stuff and I get close to BEEzerk mulling on it:
47's are not nimble and are no good for prowling around hot zones, especially before unloading. Failing to clear an LZ would be foolish and using a loaded 47 for search is down there too. A map check shows there is a whole lot of country higher than 10,000 ft in the neighborhood and I thot we learned a long time ago that we HAD to control the high ground. Gen. Patton just kicked a slat out of his box. Cover fire had to be available and I'm gonna wait for the explanation as to why it wasn't used. SOP teams wouldn't have been up there w/o suspicion there was another unfriendly crowd. I tend to think aggressor and in that mode would have loved to keep the SEALs downhill especially if I could get a cheap downwind shot at a chopper. And that's just part of why I get the faint odor of Carter SNAFU in this case