skrou viewers with the helicopter pilots want to do to fly to the oil facility, they have to fly over positions inside ukraine. the russian positions at the border on the russian territory, all the air defense systems, to reach that city and get back. an extremely difficult task for helicopters that don t really fly that fast. again, the russians say that the ukrainians did it. so far, we haven t heard from the eweukrainians. it would be a massive gut punk if they manage to pull it off. all right, thank you very much. now, everlin farkas and seth jones, director of the security program. he serves as adviser to the commanding general of the u.s. special op rations forces in afghanistan. the target in belgorad was
nationally, the investment we have made in war fighting since 9/11, getting so much bigger than it was. that is money and investment that we made an in n that direction that we couldn t make in some other direction, that we didn t make in education or health care whatever you have. at the end of the day, bin laden and the top leaders by al qaeda were killed by institutions that existed before 9/11. they were killed by the kcia, the military and special op rations. particularly in intelligence, they say you can complain all you want but there hasn t been altogether 9/11 and that proves that it worked.
over the changing of the commands. admiral olson the first member of the s.e.a.l.s to run the special op rations aside is stepping aside and mccraven who was also in the s.e.a.l.s. a tough day for the s.e.a.l.s. they were far from home. we know that they were also where they wanted to be. doing what they wanted to do. alongside men who were perhaps closer to them than their own brothers. we owe them our deepest gratitude. for their willingness to put tlar lives on the line. for their willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of their nation.
morning. explain to all of us how does the elite unit like the s.e.a.l.s recover from such a devastating loss like this one? thomas, thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to be able to represent my community and all of special op rations command. the s.e.a.l.s are a tough bunch. this is a significant impact on the community. it s a bad one. s.e.a.l.s, we don t know how to quit. it s not in our dna. what we need to do right now is focus on getting the aid to these gentlemen s families. you can all do that by logging on to navysealfound.org, woundedwarriorproject.org. get the funding to these gentlemen s families. it doesn t matter if it s a dollar. donate now. s.e.a.l.s undergo 30 months of ard rouse training. by the time this man pins on this symbol he s a national
few in our military are more aware of these costs, these sacrifices and few have done more to help this resilient community than the leader we are honoring today, admiral eric olson. he has led special op rations in combat overseas and together with his wife, marilyn there you hear the high praise for the man who has overseen special op rations command admiral eric olson stepping down today. he was the nirs navy zeal to run so come. he s being replaced by admiral william mccraven. as you heard the defense secretary say it s been a tough, tough weekend for the s.e.a.l.s. they have seen their worst lots of life, their worst tragedy when 22 seal commandos were killed. 30 americans in all and eight