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Col. Hunt said that we were only 20 min away by jet and a couple of hours away by AC-130 gunships and special forces, and the decision not to intervene had to be political.

Sigonella NAS in Sicily was on stand-by.

Sigonella is only 470 miles from the compound in Benghazi...and they were on stand-by with jets and C-130's. Even the C-130 could have made the trip in a little over an hour. An F-18 could have made a visit in under a half an hour.

Just a show of force--a sonic boom--would have given our men an edge

27 posted on 02/10/2013 4:22:23 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)

I can’t find my link to it now but early on there was an article about a special team from Germany that was moved to Sigonella ready and raring to go. As Travis McGee posted, they have teams who practice regularly for hostage/embassy rescue missions and they’ve been doing that for decades.