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Please refresh me. I know Rogers was the HRT commander, but where did Jamar fit, cdr of another element/team? Oh yes, I remember he was brought in from Houston ?? as a commander, but can't remember which. This happens with age, and reading too much. ;-)

Jeffrey Jamar was out of the Dallas Field Office, and was a regular supervisor of agents. Dallas handles the Waco area. Just what body was in charge, the HRT or the regular agents, has been pondered ever since this happened. Someone was able to keep William Sessions, former mayor of Waco and a former judge from that city, from going personally to the site. The story was that "the tactical" people overruled the Director of the FBI, Sessions, concerning a visit at the site. "Tactical people" would mean Dick Rodgers, as he was the chief of the "tactical people" on site. His second-in-command, Steven McGavin, who flew overhead in the FLIR plane during the assault, was far more important in the chain-of-command than people realize.