![]() ![]() “Furthermore, they were laying around when the goat herders stumbled up. “The fact that they had suppressed, scoped weapons shows that they were not prepared to lay down suppressive fire. “Another example showing that they didn’t think ahead and plan for the worst is …” (and at that point I interjected, “Why wasn’t anyone carrying …”) a SAW (Daniel said)? ‘Yes’, I responded. And there was no excuse to have poor comms when you knew you were going to have poor comms.” There was no excuse to have sent a team of four. “Alternatively, since you knew comms was going to be bad on the other side of that mountain, you could have set down another team of four SEALs on top of the mountain or near it, who could have then relayed comms to the FOB from the recon team. We didn’t want our Scout Snipers getting killed on the way to or from their post.” We escorted snipers to their two- or three-day post, and then escorted them back. Even when doing recon, we have enough men. We laid waste to them because we had a platoon, not a four man fire team. We were watching the mosque and someone came over comms and said, “Um guys, there are dudes with masks on that just got out of cars with some other dude who had a hood on.” We started watching them, and sure enough, they were AQ getting reading to execute another elder. We were monitoring a mosque for anti-American messaging, and we were beside a building (abandoned school) that AQ was using to execute leaders of Fallujah. “I was on a recon mission in Fallujah, and we had an entire platoon. There was no reason to limit the recon team to four.” If you set four SEALs down by helicopter, you could have set an entire platoon down. I saw a room full of Navy SEALs sitting on their assess back at the FOB doing nothing but monitoring comms. “This operation should never have come off the way it did. With that said, I’ll now offer up my son Daniel’s comments regarding the movie Lone Survivor, knowing the story beforehand, but commenting to me after having seen the movie. It comes from a former enlisted Marine, so take it for what it’s worth – a former enlisted Marine’s view of Operation Red Wings. Nothing herein is construed to malign the bravery and exploits of anyone in any operation, anywhere, at any time. This article is about tactics, plain and simple. Finally, if you make comments about the “military-industrial complex,” I will laugh at you as I spam your comment. Marine Corps, or my son Daniel (whose assessment this is). Second, there will be no disparaging comments about Navy SEALs, the U.S. The article isn’t about the justification or lack thereof for OEF, OIF, or any other campaign or operation. First, stick to the point of the article. But in this instance I would offer up the following guidelines. I should say up front that I like for the comments to be free flowing where readers can disagree with my views (respectfully, of course). ![]() It will likely offend some people, and since it comes straight from a former enlisted Marine, there is slight language warning. ![]() This will be a little different than some articles, a throwback to my military blogging, and very frank.
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