career before honor...
Posted on 05/07/2017 9:04:43 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
"Permission to engage denied," Captain Joni Marquez heard over her communications as she piloted her "eye in the sky" gun ship above the old Chinook helicopter carrying SEAL Team 6 and other Special Ops and National Guard soldiers to help American Rangers in the Wardak Province war zone on August 2, 2011. Marquez soon would see her infrared monitor turn from red to blue as she watched the life spill out of one of our doomed warriors, shot down by the enemy. (Video available at link.) She knew the insurgents she just had seen slinking from this American graveyard hurried back to their enemy outpost to give a go ahead launch of their MAN PADS-RPGs- directly into the Chinook.
Circling for 13 minutes over a fire zone, the soldiers trapped in the old, Viet Nam era copter, were given a death sentence by a no fire decision from a commander who obviously was following the then Rules of Engagement (RoE)which hobbled our soldiers and in this case, cost them their lives. Killed that night were 15 American Special Ops, five US Army National Guard, Army Reserve, Afghan Commandos, their interpreter and a US military working dog and the flight crew. As Wikileaks puts it, "This is considered the worst loss of American lives in the Afghanistan campaign." Hard to understand is this edict by Commander in Chief Obama who sent our men into deadly battles yet stopped them from fighting, literally turning them into defenseless pawns for enemy target practice!
As a new Congressional investigation may be in the offing, Captain Marquez is coming forward to recall the horror of that night, a series of images which have led to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms that refuse to go away. "If we would've been allowed to engage that night...
(Excerpt) Read more at thecoachsteam.com ...
career before honor...
Looks like Obozo wanted the witnesses to the Bin Laden kill taken care of.
Nothing would surprise me.
ping
that was my first thought when this story broke
its one of the many truths I acknowledge....that we have evil incarnate among us and working against us....
most of which we can do nothing about...
Have the rules of engagement been changed under the Trump Administration?
Agree. Brings tears to my eyes every time I remember that massacre of our SEALs.
Obozo did NOT give the go ahead order to take out Bin Laden. As usual, he dithered and shucked and jived. It’s my understanding that someone else, whatzizname from California, who headed the CIA stepped up and gave the order. I have always felt that the sacrifice of Seal Team 6 was intentional on Obozo’s part as vengeance for their taking out his fellow ragheads. Obozo is not, and never was an American citizen.
Second to last sentence of the article: Thankfully, President Trump quickly rescinded these ROE edicts.
Leon Panetta.
If it walks like a Muslim, if it talks like a Muslim, if it
favors Muslims at every turn, if it obviously despises
real Christians in favor of Black Muslims pretending to be
“Christians” - then it is a MUSLIM.
Verdict on Hussein Obama?
When I first heard this story I thought the same thing. He allowed them to kill Seal Team 6 to appease the muzzie need for revenge. And it didn't help, or was it intentional, that Biden outed Seal Team 6.
Bastards!
Justice required.
Time to begin the process of exposing Obuma as a traitorous un-American ex-President. Thankfully the national nightmare is over.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Thank you.
This is exactly why Obama needs to be arrested, tried, convicted and punished for treason, sedition and murder of our troops.
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