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To: DavesM who wrote (310399)	10/23/2002 1:57:32 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 769667

"In addition to the armor, air support from AC-130 was also requested." According to Browden's research, "trimming AC-130 from the initial force request, in light of growing congressional pressure to bring the troops home from Somalia seems particularly defensible. Gen. Garrison himself felt the gunship was not only unnecessary, but likely to be a less effective firing platform over a densely populated urban neighborhood than the AH-6 Little Birds. One or the other would have interfered with each other's line of fire. To a man, the soldiers pinned down around the first crash site credit brave and skill Little Bird pilots with keeping the Somali crowds at bay. Interviewed Somali fighters agreed. The soldiers trapped did however long for the firepower of the gunship. But command concerns about limiting collateral damage were legitimate. Support for the gunship was lukewarm on up the ranks, all the way to General Colin Powell, who agreed with the decision. He reiterated his position in his book."

To: DavesM who wrote (310399)	10/23/2002 2:00:38 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"In addition to the armor, air support from AC-130 was also requested." According to Browden's research, "trimming AC-130 from the initial force request, in light of growing congressional pressure to bring the troops home from Somalia seems particularly defensible. Gen. Garrison himself felt the gunship was not only unnecessary, but likely to be a less effective firing platform over a densely populated urban neighborhood than the AH-6 Little Birds. One or the other would have interfered with each other's line of fire. To a man, the soldiers pinned down around the first crash site credit brave and skill Little Bird pilots with keeping the Somali crowds at bay. Interviewed Somali fighters agreed. The soldiers trapped did however long for the firepower of the gunship. But command concerns about limiting collateral damage were legitimate. Support for the gunship was lukewarm on up the ranks, all the way to General Colin Powell, who agreed with the decision. He reiterated his position in his book." RE: 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." It was not Garrison who made the request, it was Montgomery...