Hmmmm....
Shades of Operation Red Wing (Seal Team 1) all over again. Not good.
What a tragedy. And what makes it even more tragic is that this is Vietnam Part II. As soon as we pull out, the bad guys will take over the country, just like they did in ‘Nam. A corrupt government, with an incompetent military, will not win against political (or in the case of Afghanistan) religious, fanatics.
I am wondering if this was the handiwork of the Iranian Republican Guard? If so it is long overdue to go after them and hunt them down anywhere they can be found.
Will we ever know what became of the personnel they were trying to rescue? This just got even more horrible, if possible.
It’s about time our side pulled off a big “oops...sorry ‘bout that” sort of thing.
I bet the enemy have been after them ever since their own Benedict Arnold president blew their cover and outed them ...
Who was the brainiac officer who put such a large group of elite troops on one helicopter?
Shades of the Carter Iran rescue fiasco.
I thought SEALs traveled in smaller units to avoid this very scenario?
this was a setup from the word go. Put out some bad intel about HVT’s, knowing that the US military is going to send some ‘high speed unit’. If ST6 was on a rescue mission, then they were rescuing other members of their unit or another SPECOP’s unit. The bad guys, now being very well informed of the TTP’s, of our elite military units, were waiting on them.
Of course, if the moron-in-chief, had to let the world know who did it and how. Stating I and My, over and over again, to prove that he is in charge. The whole while, letting the world know how these operators do their job. Well, no more. For a little publicity and some rating in the polls, the secret is out and the bad guys have been paying attention.
God bless those men and their families.
This is very sad - all loss of life by our guys is sad, but this one is bad because it just seems preventable.
Why were they all together? How trustworthy were those Afghanis? (Personally, I don’t think any of them seem very trustworthy.)
This is all very depressing. Many people on other threads were speculating that it was Obama’s Ramadan gift to the Taliban, but I don’t think he’s smart enough to carry off something like that. But I doubt that he’s very sad that it happened.
What, there wasn’t enough fuel to put the men on more than one?
Will Obama rethink is Afghanistan drawdown which his commanders said was not recommended?
SEALS for a routine QRF mission? That is a total lie.
That would be rangers, marines —whatever.
SEALS are a high-priority direct action outfit.
We’re reading a cover-story, here.
Obama HUSSEIN’S Rules of Engagement Drastically Favor His Brothers, The MUSLIM RADICAL TERRORISTS!!
Something seems odd about this.
Can’t imagine Afghan soldiers EVER opperating with a SEAL team. If so something is seriously fubared here.
A very difficult pill to swallow.
Prayers for these brave men.
The Best of The Best!
Has the imperial federal government ordered our flag to half mast yet? I did mine in the front yard, whether they do or not, I will honor those men. I went up to the church and lowered the 3 flags up there also.
I am very surprised Seal Team 6 would be a QRF. As good as they are on the ground, they don’t have the firepower Marines or Airborne troops have.