| No, Doody, there was nothing about the lack of artillery mentioned. I'd like to hear more about that if you can find it. As I said, the show focused almost exclusively on the 21 men from Razor 1. At the beginning of the show Mako 3 and Petty Officer Roberts were mentioned in how it came to be that Roberts was lost on the mountainside. Rozor 1 and 2 were then deployed to come to his rescue and Razor 1 was shot down. Razor 2 wasn't mentioned again until near the end of the program as the relief force that was first able to make their way on the ground to the crash site by climbing four hours up the mountain. The CIA was made the big hero in utilizing their Predator UAV to fire a Hellfire missile into the bunker the Air Force jets were unable to neutralize. The show did a critique on problems in communications during the relief of Razor 1, but it didn't go further into anything else and for the most part attributed the problems as "the fog of war". Seeing as much commentary came from MG (then now LTG) Hagenbeck the gist of it was decidely in the favor of the brass. Military analysts from the Washington Post and the Air Force times and a couple others I can't remember at the moment were the only ones to directly criticize the operation. Even the men from Razor 1 did not want to criticize the decision not to send the helicopter until darkness to pull them all out of there. They only said they felt it could've been done but acknowledged that they did not have as wide a view of the entire situation as the commanders back at base.
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