Did a General try to help in Benghazi?

[mikec]

There are several articles on this one page, a succession if you will. They allude to a General trying to disobey orders on the night of the attack, then being relieved of command after having done so.

My question is this: Given that it would have been an order to engage, was there likely a second in command that heard the stand down order and interfered in it's implementation? Seems hard to believe that he would try and help and be unsuccessful as the fight was ongoing when this would have occurred...

Any of you guys have insight into how that could have played out? It certainly seems plausible that they would yank someone who tried to do the right thing, in contradiction to the current administrations lack of want to do so...

https://www.redstate.com/jamesmpratt/2012/10/27/breaking-africom-general-carter-ham-relieved-of-command-minutes-before-ordering-benghazi-rescue/

[Forever_frost]

You mean General Ham being relieved of duty? Heard about it.

[Dlachance]

There is a reason for a chain of command. One may not neccessarily have all the information that his superior does. In this instance, we don't know if the General had more info than the President did, probably the same. My guess is that a lot of these guys who got in trouble wanted to save our guys and did not want to be held responsible for the deaths. However, in this case, the person who instructed these guys not to do anything and relieved the general is the one responsible for the deaths, imo.

[CJ]

There is a reason for a chain of command. One may not neccessarily have all the information that his superior does. In this instance, we don't know if the General had more info than the President did, probably the same. My guess is that a lot of these guys who got in trouble wanted to save our guys and did not want to be held responsible for the deaths. However, in this case, the person who instructed these guys not to do anything and relieved the general is the one responsible for the deaths, imo.

Maybe you didn't get the memo. No one is responsible for anything under this administration. When was the last time anyone in this administration got in trouble for anything? Dead border patrol agent, ambassador, solyndra, what else you got?