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| Tongo Tongo: Caught in a Deadly Ambush |
| 2017-10-24 |
| The U.S. Special Forces team caught in a deadly ambush three weeks ago in Niger did not request help from nearby French forces for about an hour after the firefight began near a village the Americans had visited during a reconnaissance mission several hours prior, the Pentagon’s top general said Monday. It then took the French another hour to get fighter jets over the American troops, according to a new timeline provided by Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The disclosure doubles the amount of time the U.S. troops were believed to have fought without significant additional help. "This is a very complex situation that they found themselves in, and a pretty tough firefight," Dunford said. |
| Posted by:Hupeting Sforza8196 |
| #5 Could they have lost access to their communications gear for that hour, meaning that they were scattered, pinned down and unlucky enough to have all of their radios/sat phones on the dead and seriously-injured men? |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-10-24 18:43 |
| #4 They were set up. When the meeting goes over time, it means that they are keeping you there in order to set up an ambush. It shows infiltration of the Niger forces by AQ. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-10-24 17:58 |
| #3 DV makes some valid points. Appears the 'Everything Goes to Hell Plan' lacked some key elements. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-24 17:39 |
| #2 Typical Coalition Warfare SNAFU, sounds like... |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-10-24 17:30 |
| #1 Something seems off. When I was at Ft. Campbell we had the 5th Special Forces Group housed next to us. Their AO was Africa and they deployed there regularly. When we shot the shit together they stated their usual role wasn't to get in firefights. If they were engaged, they usually tried to disengage if possible as they weren't armed well enough most of the time for prolonged combat. They were there to train and support, nothing more. Seems the SF guys have a similar mission now and it makes me wonder what the fucking hell they were doing being in a firefight for a goddamn hour before calling in support. If you see you have more and heavier shit coming in than you have going out, all military guys I know would call in support. If you can't break contact, call in support. Something isn't adding up or these guys seriously fucked up playing Rambo with the locals. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-10-24 11:30 |