IIRC, the story about Rear Admiral Gaouette (Sp?) being relieved of command of the group broke just after Benghazi. Speculation was that he refused to stand down from launching a rescue, not the story about "sending racially insensitive e-mails to white officers".
The Chief of AFRICOM (General Ham) got changed out at about the same time (just after Benghazi).
Maybe it only seems like a lot of flag rank reassignment at once for an area, but added in with Petraeus, Pannetta, and Hillary's exit, there seems like more to the picture than just a few folks changing jobs.
Concur....and a few others as well.
Aviano is in Northern Italy, our fighters would require a tanker....sometimes not so easy to scare up, just sayin’ but seems like someone should have asked for volunteers to man up.
In the old days, POTUS would have been in the SITROOM all night, banging on the desk and asking where the carriers were or other deployable forces. There HAS to be some SOF guys on HOT-Standby in the MED.
Our problem is we are trying to apply logic and common sense to a problem that cannot be solved with such. God Bless the Benghazi Four, their families and friends and I sure hope someone hangs and then burns in Hell for their cowardice.