Hero Ty Woods betrayed by DO NOT SHOOT order from WH. Benghazi terrorists tracked & mortared him via Woods' Laser Designator

 

Hero Ty Woods betrayed by DO NOT SHOOT order from WH. Benghazi terrorists tracked & mortared him via Woods' Laser Designator

The standard protocol for military operations utilizing laser designation is:

1) First establish communication between:
    a) the asset who is 'painting' the target with a laser designator, and
    b) the weapons system which will fire at the target with laser guided bombs or laser guided 50 caliber guns

2) Turn On Laser Designator beam for shortest time possible, until reflected energy is acquired by the weapons platform.

3) Destroy the designated target.

The reason for this protocol is that as soon as the laser is turned on, the designator itself is 'lit up' and very visible to the enemy via the radiation which it emits. The designator then becomes very very vulnerable. Because the enemy can easily detect the illuminating laser beam, and to save itself, will try to destroy the laser, before it is hit. Timing is vitally critical:  there is laser 'ON' time, then acquisition by the weapon system, and then killing of the target, and this must happen just as fast as possible. So as not to give time to the enemy to destroy the designator.

Former Navy Seal Ty Woods was an experienced war-fighter and knew all of the above. So he established communications with a Hercules C-130 gunship flying over the CIA Annex in Benghazi, after the attack has started. Ty Woods then located the mortar team that was firing on the CIA Annex. He informed the Hercules that he was ready to designate. He was given permission to laser designate the target. And then, inexplicably, or something, the Hercules failed to fire on the target, leaving Ty Woods twisting in the breeze, exposed to the enemy.

Ty Woods's laser was turned on, and he was as exposed as a deer in the headlights. The terrorist mortar team immediately focussed on him, and it may be that they even used Woods own laser beam to guide the mortar round in on Woods. Which killed him.

What happened?

Woods was betrayed. The protocol was violated. The Hercules C-130, instead of killing the target, witheld fire.

Why?

The military team manning the guns and bombs on the Hercules would never ever betray a comrade whose life was at risk, and leave him in mortal danger exposed to the enemy.

They were ordered to stand down by the White House, after Ty Woods had become exposed via his laser beam. The WH order was DO NOT FIRE. This order killed Ty Woods as surely as the mortar round which landed almost on top of him.

Dereliction of Duty? Timidity? Cowardice in the face of the Enemy? Impeachable offences.

YEs, Yes, Yes, and Yes.