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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere was no stand-down order: SOC Troops and AFRICOM
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There was no stand-down order: SOC Troops and AFRICOM (Original Post)
Jeneral2885
Jul 2014
OP
herding cats
(19,566 posts)1. Issa is crying right now.
WASHINGTON The testimony of nine military officers undermines contentions by Republican lawmakers that a stand-down order held back military assets that could have saved the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans killed at a diplomatic outpost and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya.
The stand-down theory centers on a Special Operations team of four a detachment leader, a medic, a communications expert and a weapons operator with his foot in a cast who were stopped from flying from Tripoli to Benghazi after the attacks of Sept. 11-12, 2012, had ended. Instead, they were instructed to help protect and care for those being evacuated from Benghazi and from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.
The senior military officer who issued the instruction to remain in place and the detachment leader who received it said it was the right decision and has been widely mischaracterized. The order was to remain in Tripoli and protect some three dozen embassy personnel rather than fly to Benghazi some 600 miles away after all Americans there would have been evacuated. And the medic is credited with saving the life of an evacuee from the attacks.
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Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the Oversight panel, has suggested Hillary Rodham Clinton gave the order, though as secretary of state at the time, she was not in the military chain of command.
The stand-down theory centers on a Special Operations team of four a detachment leader, a medic, a communications expert and a weapons operator with his foot in a cast who were stopped from flying from Tripoli to Benghazi after the attacks of Sept. 11-12, 2012, had ended. Instead, they were instructed to help protect and care for those being evacuated from Benghazi and from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.
The senior military officer who issued the instruction to remain in place and the detachment leader who received it said it was the right decision and has been widely mischaracterized. The order was to remain in Tripoli and protect some three dozen embassy personnel rather than fly to Benghazi some 600 miles away after all Americans there would have been evacuated. And the medic is credited with saving the life of an evacuee from the attacks.
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Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the Oversight panel, has suggested Hillary Rodham Clinton gave the order, though as secretary of state at the time, she was not in the military chain of command.
Jeneral2885
(1,354 posts)3. Civilians outside Defense/Defence
hardly given orders and orders can be disobeyed.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)2. of course the Navy would say that, who runs the Navy?
Obama does, that's who.
Sure, you've got 9 senior military officials, but the guy on am radio at 3AM says otherwise
Jeneral2885
(1,354 posts)4. Can
i bump up this post for more discussions?