They did everything right.
They wondered aloud about what to do with the goatherds, just as anyone would do in his own mind.
They could not murder them, and they were right not to.
The Apaches should have been left on site for support.
The communications with the phone should have been quicker.
The intel could have been better regarding what they were going into.
The radios should have worked.
My late father, a former exec at an electronics corp, a former marine, and an electrical engineer, today, a day after seeing the movie, would be making tracks and scrambling to make sure no team gets caught like that without proper radio communication.
And any SONY, Motorola, even Radio Shack, certainly Apple execs today should be doing so.
There is a great shame that our researchers can’t figure out how to get radios to special forces teams.
Tapper is way off in this respect:
He, like all comfortable, proud closed-minded, selfish Americans, is under the impression that people in the military choose their missions and opt in or out.
They don’t.
And maybe the good Mr. Wahlberg, who took on this project and produced it, realizes this but is not aware:
It is the voters, the citizens who pick and choose wars and missions and battles when they choose our leaders.
It is congress who is in control of our engagements.
Period.
So Tapper needs to speak with and about Congress, and leave the military individual, who is doing his job, trusting the voters and the Congress to keep them in or out of their missions.
And they’ll die doing so, and these guys will die without fear, or loss of hope. That’s what they do.
Should not have relocated the OP without advising the TOC.
Should have manuvered to maintain contact, backtracking as far as necessary.
Should have marched the shepherds over the mountain.