Posted on 04/15/2005 4:22:10 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
LOL!
That was F14, not me. :-)
They reached all of their objectives, they all got in and out alive...there were just no POWs there.
There was NOBODY there....
The embarrassingly public failure of the raid, code-named Operation Eagle Claw, was a low-water mark for the Carter administration and for our military as well, still struggling to get back on its feet in the wake of the debacle in Vietnam just five years before.
I was sitting at Cairo West in Egypt........didn't have a clue it was going down till nooooze broke. I have a good friend .....T. Hall, that was on the raid. When he does talk about it I gathered that weight was an issue. Their field jackets had MP5 mag pouches sewn into them and they were limited to very little as far as gear , weapons etc . His I love me wall validated his past......as do his cred's . Good stories as stated when ya can get him to talk about it ....rare occasion if ever.
Stay safe !
I was thinking almost the same thing but with a different Pres. when the Chinese made us look like b*tches when they forced our aircraft down and chopped it up into pieces and charged us to mail it back to us.
A guy at ST2 with a colorful past who was a native German speaker was in Teheran at the time, and E and E'd all the way to Turkey when TSHTF.
Thanks for the ping!
It was a bad plan from the start. Too complex.
Funny Ross Perot was able to get his people out when they were held hostage with the
help of Lt. Col. Bull Simons as his planer & leader.
"Can it happen again and if it does, what will be American response?"
I don't think the Iranians have any doubt as to the response by GWB or any other Republican president. Remember, the frenchies were dragging their feet on a lot of things leading up to the last election; when it became clear that GWB would be there for another 4 years, they began to talk a bit but they obvously wanted John F'n Kerry or anyone other than a Republican president.
Thanks for posting this.
This is an excellent reminder of what Carter did to our military, our intel and our country.
Carter was/is the best friend of Islamofascists and Communist Dictators have ever had. He enabled and set up the current two plus decade of Islamo terrorism.
fyi
u r most welcome ;-)
Yes Carter was a real Schmuck!
Carter operated the entire damn military on a shoestring. We didn't have enough money for training and not enough money for bullets.
Dumbass had visions of "Entebbe II" and came out looking like Keystone Cops.
Worst....President....Ever.
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