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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (310384)	10/22/2002 11:24:23 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

J_F. In addition to the armor, air support from AC-130 was also requested. "On the request for armor, Gen. Montgomery told congressional investigators he needed tanks because of attacks by Somali militias. "I believe that U.S. forces are at risk without it," the Sept. 14, 1993 request stated." "I would have used it on Oct. 3-4 for the rescue," he said. "If we had it, we would have gotten there faster. We would have taken fewer casualties." "The report (Senate Report on Somalia fiasco) quoted Powell as saying he recommended Aspin support a request from U.S. commanders weeks before the raid that tanks and armored personnel carriers be sent to Somalia." netnomad.com "Former combat-grunt-turned-pilot Joyce (who's son died in Somalia) asked why Air Force AC-130 gunships weren't supporting the Rangers instead of thin-skinned Army choppers. Ranger Gen. William Garrison, who ran the operation, said he asked for gunships, but Gen. Hoar and State Department officials -- again, far from Mogadishu -- spiked his request." hackworth.com re:"General Montgomery had almost nothing to do with the planning for the Oct 3 raid on Mogadishsu... Gen. Garrison, the commander of Task Force Ranger, was essentially independent of Montgomery even though Montgomery was higher up in the chain of UN command."