crockett

You said he didn't thank them, I showed you that he did. You seam in capable to putting 1+1 together to understand that Obama was obviously thanking everyone involved which was way more people than just seal team 6. It's funny though that you being ex military as you love to tell us all the time, that you can't understand the concept of secrecy.

Obama didn't mention seal team 6 by name at first, just like he didn't mention the CIA nor did he mention the specOps helicopter pilots whom were from the 160 regiment. He didn't name any of the people who worked behind the scenes, for the year that they watched the compound. In that year we had guys on the ground watching the compound, risking their lives. None of these people were named for a very fucking obvious reason..Secrecy..

The only reason the seal team 6 name even came out, was because it was leaked by Pakistan and the media jumped all over it. At that point Obama finally named them by name not to give them fame, but because the damage had been done and Pakistan was holding the helicopter that crashed hostage and was demanding we release information on what the raid was about.

It was actually because of Pakistan that so much info was released. Obama hadn't planned to release that bin Laden was killed until DNA had proven it to be him, but Pakistan forced the issue by claiming they were going to let their media run wild. The Pakistan govt them selves were taking a lot of heat, for having a US military team on the ground, on their soil whom kidnapped/killed a target in one of their cities, next to a high value military school.

Pakistan wanted the US to release that it was in fact bin Laden whom was killed and not a Pakistani. They also leaked it to the media about seal team 6 being the go team, which most had figured out anyway. Pakistan was letting the media go wild and lots of pictures of that top secret helicopter were ending up on TV all around the world, with threats that they would turn info over to the Chinese.

Had it not been for the heli that crashed we would have not known for sometime later, that it was in fact seal team 6 whom did the raid. Really it was going to be either ST6 or Delta Force, so either way it was a 50/50 guess and ST6 was known to be operating in Afghanistan at the time. So they were the obvious guess.

Yet despite all this, Vendido thinks the President should have publicly outed ST6 just to say "thanks guys" in a public speech.. I must ask Vendizlla what the fuck did you do in the military, being you are so ignorant of basic policies? Did you do the laundry or wash the dishes? Seriously, even a cook would understand why the president didn't specifically name the go team.