[gaijin]

Yup, and Sigonella on Sicily is 450 miles away —closer than Tripoli. An F-18 w/o weapons can get overhead to make a scary sonic boom in under 20 minutes —that is done ALL the time in Afgh & Iraq.

They would not have had to trigger even one round, in order to buy those guys more time.

[MissMagnolia]

Per Thompson's testimony, the FEST team was not allowed to deploy. That decision, if I got it right, was made by an arm of the National Security Council(?) - regardless, very high level. These FEST guys are "hot spot" experts & this was exactly the type of situation they are trained for & they were shocked they were not being deployed. This is a big revelation, in my opinion, after assertions from the Obama administration which insisted that nobody was ever told to stand down and that all available resources were utilized.

[frog in a pot]

Your points make it sound as though it was very doable. And then this from Hicks:

I believe...lives could have been saved at Benghazi had the administration dispatched just one aircraft from the naval base at Souda Bay in Crete about an hour away...if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced, I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because I believe the Libyans would have split.

So much for General Bob Scales' comments on Fox that aircraft could not have arrived in time to make a difference.