“I know for a fact that C-110, the EUCOM CIF, was doing a training exercise in … not in the region of North Africa, but in Europe, and they had the ability to act and to respond.”
The operator told Fox News the C-110 forces were training in Croatia.
“We had the ability to load out, get on birds and fly there, at a minimum stage,” the operator told Fox News. “C-110 had the ability to be there, in my opinion, in a matter of about four hours … four to six hours.”
Senator Ron Johnson asked General Dempsey about the Housley report during a Senate Budget Committee hearing. Dempsey confirmed that Fox News was correct in that C-110 was on a training exercise in Croatia. In the clip below notice that Dempsey also testifies that this unit was transferred from EUCOM to AFRICOM command during the attack. This lends credence to the rumor that circulated wildly about the internet immediately following the Benghazi raid that AFRICOM Commander General Carter Ham had assembled a rescue force but was refused permission to proceed.
Dempsey was asked whether he agreed with the Fox News timeline that the C-100 could deploy in four to six hours.
“No, I would not agree to that timeline,” he stated. “The travel time alone would have been more than that, and that is if they were sitting on the tarmac.”
Really? If one assumes that military aircraft travel at least as fast as commercial airlines that statement is absurd. A quick check with Travel Math reveals that distance from the capital of Croatia, Zagreb to Benghazi is just slightly further than JFK to St. Louis. When is the last time it took 6 hours to fly from New York to St. Louis?
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