In a 14 January 2014 article published by Frontpage Magazine entitled “`New Declassified Docs Expose Obama’s Benghazi Lies “ is the following statement:
“… Another infuriating fact revealed by the documents regards a FAST team of Marines in Rota, Spain. They were apparently forced to deplane and change out of their uniforms before flying to Libya. “When we got people down do you really have — do you really actually let somebody push the military around and say, well, you are in the wrong uniform,” Chaffetz asked in disbelief. “Is that really a reason to delay the FAST team coming in to protect Americans, that they are not wearing a t-shirt?”
Now I’m really confused. A poster above implied it was the rapid response team out of Tripoli that had to repeatedly change uniforms. Plus, I just looked up the map distance to Benghazi from Aviano, Italy and Rota, Spain. It looks like Rota is even further from Benghazi than Aviano in northeast Italy. BTW, I was stationed in Rota for 3 years.