The responding SEALs were highly experienced and on that roof would have known that using a target designator would bring them under an additional level of physical risk as events unfolded.
**WHY** were they using it...?
Did someone from our side TRY to get them killed...?
Were they led to believe aircraft were minutes from arrival on scene..?
If one of our own made statements with the goal of getting them killed then WHY..?
I believe they thought there was assistance on the way. INTERVIEW THE SURVIVORS!
There were reports that we had one or two drones over that city. From what I remember they stated the drones were not armed though. Perhaps the SEALS’s saw the drones and thought they were armed ? Then again it might have been dark at that time.