[El Gato]

That it took an hour for a QRF to get to the scene is flat out wrong.....In this area of Iraq. If this turns out to be accurate, this QRF was a goatfk.

You don't know how long it took to get the UAV on scene, find the burning vehicles and for orders to the QRF to be issued.

I do recall reading that no communications from the patrol were received, so it's not like they called for the QRF.

[El Gato]

I just watched the video of the command statement. In the part not quoted in the article, it indicated that the UAV did not find the burning vehicles until 15 minutes after the explosion. Now it’s only 41 minutes from then until the QRF was on the site. How long from the time the UAV operators saw the vehicles until the word got to the QRF to go? I have no basis for estimation.

[SevenMinusOne]

RUMINT I'm hearing...along with news (cough) reports says another patrol was aware which unit was hit immediately (heard the explosion). They would have called for a QRF stat.

We had UAVs over the scene within 10/15 minutes is also being reported. A QRF taking an hour to reach an incident only makes sense in Stan....Not Iraq. If the hour time frame turns out to be true....this QRF was a goatfk.