I heard a story today from someone inside the military that I trust entirely. The story was in reference to General Ham that Panetta referenced in the quote below.
quote:
“(The) basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time information about what’s taking place,” Panetta told Pentagon reporters. “And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation.”
The information I heard today was that General Ham as head of Africom received the same e-mails the White House received requesting help/support as the attack was taking place. General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready.
General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command.
The story continues that now General Rodiguez would take General Ham’s place as the head of Africon.
I found this story when I got home after hearing this story.
quote:
President Barack Obama will nominate Army Gen. David Rodriguez to succeed Gen. Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command and Marine Lt. Gen. John Paxton to succeed Gen. Joseph Dunford as assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced.
As I was typing this I heard John Bolton on Greta say that there are conflicting reports of General Ham’s comments on this tragedy and why a rapid response unit was not deployed. Bolton says someone needs to find out what Ham was saying on 9/11/12.
Interesting. Thanks for all your posts.
Why are you calling this a flashback? This doesn’t sound like an old article, and you don’t have an old date on it. This is confusing.
And what you are posting is way too important to get us confused about.
The patriots are spilling the beans.
Clearly the Kenyan traitor has lost the military, and they are breaking the truth of the treason in Benghazi by the marxist Islamist arms dealer in the white house, who kept the supply of arms to al queda going through Libya to support insurrection in Syria and elsewhere.
Evil, dangerous criminals. Every day it gets worse, as more info comes to light. Makes the Fast and Furious insanity look like a teddy bears picnic. Who thought up all this sinfulness?
Gen. Ham is a 4-star https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/GEN_Carter_F.Ham_2011.jpg
This is from September 11. On September 10, General Ham was in Nevada.
http://www.army.mil/article/87055/Ham__Guard_essential_to_Africa_partnerships/
ssve for history
Africom? That sounds racist. Can I say that in public?
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Hope to see Gen. Ham before congress soon.
