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Title: U.S. Special Forces ambushed in Niger
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URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQmtn3IlDqE&feature=youtu.be
Published: Mar 5, 2018
Author: SOFREP TV
Post Date: 2018-03-05 08:44:42 by A K A Stone
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Views: 478
Comments: 17
If someone would kindly post the video. It would be most appreciated.
RIP to our soldiers.
Helmet Cam footage from the October 2017 Tongo Tongo ambush that killed four Nigeriens and four Americans. 21 enemy militants were killed while eight Nigeriens and two Americans were wounded.
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#6. To: A K A Stone, Tongo Tongo Trump, *Neo-Lib Chickenhawk Wars* (#0)
The US special forces detachment ambushed in the Niger last month fought alone for hours after the local Nigerien forces they were accompanying fled in the first minutes of the engagement, retired and serving special forces officers with knowledge of events have said. The trapped soldiers also made repeated efforts to convince French warplanes sent from neighbouring Mali to engage the enemy, attempting to “talk in” the pilots who refused to attack due to poor weather, rough terrain and an inability to differentiate friend from foe, the officers said. Four US soldiers and five Nigerien troops died in the incident, which has been the focus of an intense debate in Washington over the executive branch’s extensive powers to use military force abroad without congressional approval and with little oversight. The Niger incident has been described as an “intelligence failure” by the Republican senator John McCain, who blamed it on budget cuts. www.theguardian.com/world...lled-for-help-sources-say 100% Commander in Chief Trump's fault for not ordering the US military to leave. Bring the troops home, and let those there kill each other. President Trump needs to quit using Hillary & McCain foreign policy. R.I.P.
Poor weather under a CLEAR BLUE FRICKEN SKY? More "elite"itude from the French Commies. Yep. It's not clear why we're in Nigeria in the first place - let alone why we're depending on the French Poodle Dogs and their associates...
More "elite"itude from the French Commies. 100% Commander in Chief Trump's fault Yep. HORSEHILLARY! Are you people REALLY so fucking stoopid you think Trump makes command decisions on raids like this? You want to know why they didn't get tac air from the French? They didn't get it because the poor SOB they tasked with leading that raid had no experience or training as a SF NCO,and didn't know enough to lay on the air cover and swap call signs and radio freqs BEFORE taking off on the mission. One you are ass-deep in Indians it's too damn late to start arranging for support, This sort of thing MUST be done prior to leaving your base camp,and it MUST be done by the people who are going to be on the ground in leadership positions. This is especially true when you are trying to call in fast movers whose pilots speak another language,have probably never trained with SF troops,don't know their tactics, and who come under the command of another Air Force. And don't try to blame the poor SSG goober on the ground that had this dumped in his lap and was ordered to do it. He was and is completely innocent. It's not his fault he didn't know what to do because it wasn't his job to do that and he had never been trained to do that. If you want to know who to blame,look around for someone in that command structure that is either a LTC or a Colonel.
If American military lives are at risk in any country without the approval and knowledge of the CIC/POTUS, then somebody isn't doing their job. Why are we there according to the POTUS? https://www.google.com/search? q=Trump+Military+Nigeria { crickets crickets crickets } Once upon a time, The USA was a Republic - not an empire.
You have never been in the military,have you? Presidents are "big picture" people. They don't involve themselves with the operations of small units. Nor should they,since none of them know a damn thing about small unit infantry operations. Or large unit operations,AFATG. With the exception of Eisenhower,of course. I'd be surprised if he was even informed about that operation until after it had already gone bad,and turned from a military operation into a political discussion.
Do they involve themselves in the decisions about which sovereign nations the assets under their command operate in - or is that just delegated to the swamp these days?
#15. To: VxH (#14)
Of course. That's "Big Picture" stuff.
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#7. To: hondo68 (#6)
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"The trapped soldiers also made repeated efforts to convince French warplanes sent from neighbouring Mali to engage the enemy, attempting to “talk in” the pilots who refused to attack due to poor weather, rough terrain and an inability to differentiate friend from foe, the officers said."
100% Commander in Chief Trump's fault
#9. To: VxH (#7)
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Poor weather under a CLEAR BLUE FRICKEN SKY?
#10. To: sneakypete (#9)
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you think Trump makes command decisions on raids like this?
#12. To: VxH (#10)
If American military lives are at risk in any country without the approval and knowledge of the CIC/POTUS, then somebody isn't doing their job.
#14. To: sneakypete (#12)
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Presidents are "big picture" people. They don't involve themselves with the operations of small units.
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