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SPC Kevin Ford
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Well presumably (hopefully) some of the lessons learned in Benghazi informed and improved how we responded to this situation.
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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
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Not these...
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SPC Kevin Ford
SPC Kevin Ford
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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin - Agree to disagree. You'd think lessons that keep our ships from crashing into other ships wouldn't need to be retaught over and over again, but here we are.
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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
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Hardly the same thing to compare. Usually when someone in the military fails to ensure the safety and security of their people, when they have the right lessons learned at their disposal, they're fired.
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SPC Kevin Ford
SPC Kevin Ford
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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin - Not always and it still doesn't mean the lesson doesn't need to keep getting learned. After Vietnam we knew the problems with long protracted wars with no exit strategy. In the first Gulf War we patted ourselves on the back with the Powell doctrine. We sure learned our lesson.

Then a little more than a decade later we got ourselves in a new Vietnam that wasn't stopped by not one, not two but three consecutive administrations and the military leadership that was willing to keep it on the QT.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Thank you for the news share sir
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