now, they will go deeper here, in part, because one of the faults here is about the intelligence that led them into this position. they thought they were in, quote, a quiet area. that s what they thought they were doing. they were going to visit some villagers. they were speaking with the villagers. and there s some indication they may have been delayed by the villagers. and when they came out of that meeting with the villagers, they w. ambushed and out of their cars and dismounted. they were out of their vehicles and came under the ambush by a much larger force and started returning fire. and then air support, air medivac was there within 30 minutes. officials stress the 30-minute medivac is pretty good for this part of africa. remember, they are in western africa, northwestern africa, a pretty remote place. they relied on the french medivac. i was speaking to a u.s. general about this last week who said, look, they have done 29 such patrols in this part of niger and were totally rout