Posted on 10/19/2017 8:17:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain says the Trump administration needs to explain how four U.S. soldiers were killed in Niger. Bryan Black, Jeremiah Johnson, Dustin Wright, and La David Johnson were told not to expect enemy contact on that mission to meet with community leaders two weeks ago.
It will take an investigation to determine if any warning signs were missed, but Sen. McCain says the administration is not being upfront and he's demanding more information about the attack.
In a pre-mission briefing they were told "no enemy contact expected," but the group, about 40 in all, were attacked by militants, who the Pentagon now believes are part of an offshoot of the ISIS.
"The patrol that was attacked last week had actually done 29 patrols without contact over the previous six months or so. No indication that this was going to occur," said Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr.
Their attackers were described as "well-trained, well-equipped, and well-organized," and with no armed aircraft overhead to call on for air strikes against their attackers, the soldiers were trapped.
The first aircraft to arrive were French mirage jets.
"Were able to have close air support overhead about 30 minutes after first contact," McKenzie said.
But it was too late for sergeants Bryan Black, Dustin Wright, and Jeremiah Johnson who were mortally wounded.
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Correct, but these are not equivalent, yet McCain and the DNC-Media will try to make them equivalent.
Look Mildred! See the swamp swine swilling their slimy slime-ball swill for silly media megafying! It's a blinding brizzard of bull-(BLEEP)!!!
If I were Trump I don’t think I’d even attend this guy’s funeral.
Well, if the brain damaged McInsane knows something then he should let it out.
I’d like to know what our troops are doing in Niger that drones couldn’t.
Same-same Afghanistan.
We have satellites. Just periodically blow the hell out of the places.
Covert military operations. The Senate is not entitled to such informaton. McCain thinks he’s President.
When did US forces arrive in Niger?
(ABC) They arrived in early 2013 to help the French military that had intervened in neighboring Mali the year before. The French had moved into Mali after an Al Qaeda affiliated group and tribal groups took over the vast northern part of the country and were moving toward the capital of Mali. As part of the U.S. effort to assist that mission then-President Barack Obama ordered 150 U.S. military personnel to set up a surveillance drone operation over Mali that would fly from Niger’s capital of Niamey.
Who needs Wikileaks or Pfc Manning when we have our very own “Maverick John McCain!”
There was a Benghazi Investigation?/s
More like a Benghazi Whitewash!
Yet McCain doesn’t seem to care about 4 Americans dieing in Benghazi.
Yet McCain doesn’t seem to care about 4 Americans dieing in Benghazi.
Every now and then McCain does something for show.
The SF is there to train the locals. They try and avoid hot spots but the whole sub-Sahara is really combat zone.
If I were Trump I don’t think I’d even attend this guy’s funeral.
Then go over there and do your own investigation McLame...and don’t bother coming back.
That's because McLame was Bammy's "bottom".
And he LIKED it...
Isn’t this pathetic seditionist clown dead yet?
In Chicago?
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