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I am just a too old light infantry commander...no combat, no berets myself....just years working with troops in the field from every US service and from all over the world in training including US and foreign SF....but when I read about this at the time of the loss, my immediate thoughts were...........

1. What are seals doing so far inland on a relatively common every day mission?
2. What were 16.....16!!!! Seals doing concentrated in one operation that is a plain jane airborne infantry role?
3. Who in their right mind would put that many EXTREMELY high value assets in a single transport?
4. What are we using a single cargo Chinook to transport so many, as opposed to several smaller more nimble, better armed and tactically capable Blackhawks?

Now I hear the Afghan team that was to be on the chopper, were swapped out at the last minute? Who was saved and who was sacrificed?

Could be honest and rational answers to each....BUT..

The looks, looks mind you, as if these men were concentrated in such an unusual fashion and then their presence leaked to the enemy....who as we know is embedded throughout the Afghan and contract advisory forces.

If nothing else, careers should have been ended....but probably promotions gained.

There are games afoot Freepers to convert the US military...up until now a bastion of conservatism...into a progressivist vanguard of militant gays, lesbians, and uberlibs....while purging the “old guard”.