{"id":63741,"date":"2016-01-08T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63741"},"modified":"2016-01-08T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:54:00","slug":"zinke-questions-roe-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63741","title":{"rendered":"Zinke questions ROE in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mick sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/pilotonline.com\/news\/military\/nation\/afghanistan\/congressman-questions-if-army-special-forces-denied-rescue-force-fire\/article_1a0af795-2beb-5503-b92a-e54d25d55e66.html\">Virginian-Pilot<\/a> which reports that Ryan Zinke, former Navy SEAL and current Congressman is  questioning whether the rules of engagement under which the troops there labor are the cause of Army Staff Sergeant Matthew McClintock earlier this week;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zinke, who said he has been in touch with Special Forces soldiers close to the operation, said that the quick-reaction force was delayed by hours along with close air support sent to help the beleaguered troops. Zinke said that an AC-130 gunship was deployed to support the special forces troops, but was not allowed to fire on the enemy because of concerns of collateral damage. Instead, he said, the aircraft was only allowed to fire into a field.<\/p>\n<p>In light of these reports Zinke has called for a hearing for the Pentagon to explain the exact circumstances of what happened on the ground in Marja. &#8220;There is every indication,&#8221; he said, that air support and rescue efforts were &#8220;arbitrarily delayed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be the first time. You might remember the story of Marine Corporal Dakota Myer&#8217;s and Army Captain William Swenson&#8217;s Medals of Honor. The pair recounted how their higher headquarters wouldn&#8217;t release air and indirect fire assets to the situation which brought about their gallant efforts to rescue the Americans trapped in the village of Ganjgal on September 8, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick sends us a link to Virginian-Pilot which reports that Ryan Zinke, former Navy SEAL and &hellip; <a title=\"Zinke questions ROE in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63741\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zinke questions ROE in Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}