I’ve read the first eight transcripts. Here are some highlights for me.
There was an AC-130 in the region. The OPS Admiral didn’t know the capabilities of this Air Force aircraft.
There wasn’t an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean.
The Air Force made the statement to the OPS people in Germany that it would take 16 hours from notification to get an F-16 from Aviano to Benghazi.
Communications were actually not bad.
One of the facilities in Benghazi had been used by Americans fairly extensively during the fighting to overthrow Qadaffi.
Lots of discussion over what “stand down” means.
“The Air Force made the statement to the OPS people in Germany that it would take 16 hours from notification to get an F-16 from Aviano to Benghazi.”
That would involve putting together a full strike package, not a rapid-reaction show of force.
Around 2-hrs could have had F-16’s overhead doing a show of force passes and a couple of gun-runs.