If Obama wants another Benghazi our guys need to ignore his stand down stuff and save our troops.
IMO, if the Marines could get some A-10 and AC-130 Spectre Gunship support, this would be over quickly. Choppers are nice but as mentioned previously tough to maintain in sandy weather. I was talking to my Dad about these guys and he believes they only have one artillery battery at the base— it would be better if they had multiple batteries. Also as mentioned I agree the Crips won’t be making any kind of full frontal assault, but rather pull what the VC used to do initially with guerilla tactics. The trick is to find them where they are massed and inflict the pain on a massive scale.
While they do not present a realistic threat to lose the facility, the fact that there really will be no quarter given makes it imperative we unleash hell on them. The fact that the AC-130 has thermal targeting enables the fight to be even more unfair in our favor.
There is no question that the pain needs to be inflicted on a scale comparable to the Highway of Death, to discourage the enemy from engaging us further and to help quell some of their recruiting.
If the Emperor actually SUPPORTED our Marines, that airbase would be seeing reinforcements and supplies flown in like it was the Berlin Airlift. And if the Marines are allowed to do what they do best, the amateurs would not stand a chance.