or somebody who needs to be retrained or somebody who just doesn t have the skills to succeed in the private sector. anthony says that s ridiculous. and two years ago, he put his money where his mouth is. he built a business around getting vets adjusted, particularly focused on helping them find jobs. i never wrote a resume while i was in the army. i had several different jobs, and i was in there for eight years. i never had to network or sell myself. you don t know how to explain what you did in private sector terminology. part of a medivac company, part of oef. tell that to a hiring manager, and they ll probably give you a blank stare. but tony garcia sr. knows what that means. so you were the third team leader of a particular department that worked in a regional area that was in some cases in very dangerous territory. and so guideon takes that
this happened around dusk. it was on tuesday, october 4th. you had several groups, but basically around a dozen u.s. soldiers. some of them were in their vehicles, others had been separated. they went to go to the village. when they are at the village coming back out of that village, that s when they were ambushed and came under heavy fire, rpgs, machine guns, you had this from this group that is likely linked with isis. a much larger group. 30 minutes into it, you have french fighters that appear overhead. they did not drop ammunitions. then you have two separate medivacs. the first medivac for american casualties done by french super pumas and then the evacuation of the american dead actually happened by an american contractor. now, we have sort of been talking to a lot of folks at the pentagon, was somebody left behind? they are disputing that and saying he was separated. this is david johnson, the fourth found 48 hours later. listen to what general mackenzie said yesterday disputin
to the president. one point i would make, having seen some of the news reports, the u.s. military does not leave its troops behind. i would just ask that you not question the action of the troops who were caught in the fire fight and question whether or not they did everything they could in order to bring everyone out at once. i would also ask you don t confuse your need for accurate information with our ability to provide it immediately in a situation like this. the french response included fighter armed fighter aircraft, armed helicopter gun ship, medivac to get out our wounded. we did have a contract aircraft that lifted out our killed in action and stafr sergeant excuse me, sergeant johnson was taken out. it says something that they would then endeavor to get the body back to us, which shows the
surprise. they thought they were in, quote, a quiet environment. hans, do we look at the evacuation process, tenippicicay the dod wants to get them out in an hour, but there are questions on whether that is possible in parts of africa specifically, right? reporter: the golden hour is the rule, that s what they want to achieve. they recognize in africa you are not always potentially going to achieve that. in part, because you have special operators in remote areas. and just when you look at what could have been the recovery mission when they still thought that david johnson could have been alive, you had forces coming in from all over the globe flying into niger bringing in all kinds of assets. so this isn t, although there are 800 to 900 u.s. forces in niger, this is not a place with huge air support or close air support. and you certainly rely on the french for medivac. so this investigation, this review by the department of defense, by the pentagon, will look at where the intel
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