via Washington Times.
In a unique battlefield commendation, a Marine Corps member of Delta Force has been awarded the nation’s second highest military honor for coming to the defense of Americans last year at a CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya.Read it all here.
Delta Force, a counterterrorism unit in the secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), has been thought of as a strictly Army outfit. But it does take on qualified “operators,” as they are called, from other services.
Curious though. Delta is even better at keeping quiet than Special Forces. SEALs might talk to the press like they're publicist but that's not the SF way.
So why would they put this information out?
There is an agenda going on because I'm sure there are higher profile missions that deserve publicity but aren't getting it. So why this? And why now?
Why publicize? It keeps the military squeaky clean of the Benghazi scandal while at the same time giving reporters more ammunition to dig deeper. If the JSOC Jedi's were on the ground, clearly their was more going on than the current administration has let out. It's a political move to reinforce the military image, try to save some of that black budget from future cuts, etc.
ReplyDeleteLike Am said, i think really they want people to know that they had a team there, and could of done more if been let loose.
ReplyDeleteLike what getting killed and hung from the first bridge ,small units are extremely vulnerable and it doesn't take much to wipe them out.
DeleteSmall teams are vulnerable. But small teams of Delta operators don't normally operate alone without an asset bubble of "enablers" which multiply combat power. I'm not saying that they could have done anything to really affect the outcome, but I am saying that this is a way for the military to let the world know that there were assets available, and those assets weren't used.
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