[lavaroise]

As an Apache tech, I worked with Seal Team 6 for systems familiarization, and no SEAL mission was ever done without Apache gunship cover and direct communication. Why did these SEALs go there without Apache FLIR observation support is beyond unbelievable! This is another Blackhawk Down fiasco, imo. .. Being refused adequate CAS support for some reason during insertion. Any attack unit will tell you that SOP were not applied, like, duh! Of course they got shot down, without the Apache.

Secondly SEALs always landed at remote locations from where they would sneak up on the enemy. Someone must have alerted the Taleban.

There is no other way they could have come in by chance upon them, because the enemy would have not been hidden laying in wait like this.

It happened right after bin Laden was done, as if there was a deal, him for them.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article) :" Were the SEALs sacrificed on the altar of political correctness and deliberately flown into a known Taliban hot zone? "

lavaroise :" There is no other way they could have come in by chance upon them, because the enemy would have not been hidden laying in wait like this.
It happened right after bin Laden was done, as if there was a deal, him for them."

Sorta like a 'trade off' like Chris Stephens at Benghazi where he was going to be traded for the ' Blind Shiek' ? Listen to the verbal Utube !
Me thinks there is a traitor in the house !
Ya Think ?
Where ?
Why ?

[edpc]

There is no other way they could have come in by chance upon them, because the enemy would have not been hidden laying in wait like this.

I doubt it was by chance, but perhaps not in the same way you're thinking. Over the many years and many operations in Afghanistan, routes of ingress and egress have been developed to reach certain areas. The enemy develops their own system of intel, determines this, and sets a trap. It really can be that simple.