Via the Marine Corps Times:
Spain-based Marines trying to respond to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, were delayed for three hours as U.S. government officials debated whether they should wear their uniforms and carry weapons, according to Tuesday's report from the House Benghazi Committee.
The platoon commander of a fleet anti-terrorism security team, which can be dispatched to embassies and consulates in times of crises, told the committee that his Marines changed into and out of their uniforms four times on the plane before taking off for Libya, the report states.
Here’s kind of a radical thought- Marines are lawful combatants of a uniformed service, and that there was a question at all whether they should be dispatched in uniform, and armed with their weapons is an indictment of the State Department’s fundamental inability to grasp reality.
By the way, Patrick Kennedy is one of those names that keeps cropping up in disasters.
Could the FAST team have reached Benghazi in time to influence the outcome of events there? I don’t know. But how on earth was there any question about how they should be dressed and armed. They’re Marines, not Rent-A-Cops.
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