Gaouette’s relief was unusual and based on the complaint of a man he’d dressed down a bit for his lack of skill handling the aircraft carrier. The poor driving skills were testified to by everyone on the bridge, apparently, but Gaouette was the one who ended up in trouble.
And saying “we could have helped” in Benghazi is not necessarily a statement that “we SHOULD have had that mission.”
It is not unlikely that a commander, in disbelief at the amount of time that rescue operation could have had in Benghazi, might have sarcastically said that ~considering how much time there was~ WE could have pulled off that rescue mission.”
It would be a bit like so many data firms have been saying about the ObamaCare roll out: “Given 3 years, we could have pulled that off for a whole lot less than half a billion dollars.”
I’m not saying that’s what went down with Gaoette, but it would have been a reasonable sarcastic comment. Being in the Arabian Sea would have been no obstacle to such a statement. With a 2100 mile range and a 1000 mph speed, and the aid of refuelers, a Super Hornet could have been there in a reasonable amount of time....3-4 hours if at the time they were on the west side of the Arabian sea, double that if on the east.
Obama is a lunatic. He is destroying the country. But, there is no purge. Unfortunately, the senior military leadership of the country is standing by and enabling the mischief that Obama and his minions are visiting upon this nation.
Interestingly enough, at the end of WW II my dad was in the Navy for a couple years as a Yeoman 1st class (clerk/typist). He was a farmer before he got in, yet his ability to drive a straight line elevated him to pilot of his ship. It's pretty important for farmers to plow a straight row relative to a point on the horizon and not everyone has that skill.
Planes were on Sigonella’s tarmacs ready to roll. I don’t know about Rota’s.
AND PEOPLE WERE IN BENGHAZI.