Bird's Eye View: Navy Seal Team 6- A Dying Breed?

This Navy Seal Team 6 incident has been haunting me ever since I heard that so many of our best soldiers where killed so easily by primitive forces.

My question is: When our Finest soldiers are trained to protect us, who is protecting Them?

When Osama bin Laden was killed there were detailing reports of how deadly the US raid unfolded.

"Meet The Navy Seal Team 6', The Bad-Asses Who Killed Osama Bin Laden"

"Government Loose Lips: Gates Says Info Leaks Has SEAL Team 6 Fearing for Its Safety"

"In the aftermath of the Osama bin Laden raid, the White House couldn’t get its story straight..... Anonymous sources revealing secret information about the tactics, training, and equipment of covert forces put at risk our ability to successfully mount similar missions in the future.”

Because of the loose lips, Gates said the DOD is looking into ways to “pump up the security” for the elite team."

We don't help our soldiers by giving our enemies detailed information about their missions and their tactics; but this Administration, according to Gates, have no understanding of the real threat from our enemies. I think this Administration will "politically correct" the country into non-existence,

if they keep thinking that the only enemy they have is the Republicans and Tea Party and not Radical Islam terrorists.

This Administration has used the Navy Seals as a carrot for the enemy; to set it's sights on, and so the enemy has, with these 31 dead soldiers.

The members of the same Navy Seal Team 6, the same kind of 'Bad -Asses' who killed bin Laden, are now dead? The same group of elite soldiers who were shot down out of the sky by a possible "rocket launcher."

"As early as April 2007, A shipment of Iranian-made weapons bound for the Taliban was recently captured by allied forces in Afghanistan, the Pentagon’s top officer,"stated.

"British special forces in Afghanistan have intercepted an Iranian shipment of rockets to the Taliban that would have allowed them to double the range of their attacks, western diplomats have said. The rockets were discovered after an intelligence tip-off on 5 February 2011.

From this information, the military did have general intelligence of the area and it was not safe according to the Pentagon's top officer. It was not safe even for the elite Rangers who needed rescuing from this roughed terrain.

"The October 2010 report specifically said Taliban insurgency was becoming stronger in the eastern and northern provinces of the country. ....The Chinook helicopter was gunned down by the Taliban in the eastern part of the country."

"...year after year, the Taliban is able to jolt the U.S. military firepower through their wily guerilla operations."

High tech equipment and physical fit soldiers cannot compete in a foreign land where tribes band together, unless you nuke them without thought of who is the enemy. How can you fight a terrorist when they all look alike in civilian clothes and they cheat by using children and women to fight for them. They are not gentlemen because they don't have the same weapons as their enemy and will use any means to win.

All the enemy needs is your Achilles Heel: . a fatal weakness, in spite, of your overall strength.

There once was war etiquette and a gentlemen's war .

We should know that in small rural areas communication travels fast by word of mouth and networking. Villages don't need high tech to communicate. I don't think there was very much high tech involved around Osama bin Laden's house while he was supposedly hiding in the midst of 3 Pakistani military facilities. I think everyone knew he was there and protected by the Pakistani. Small towns always gossip. It's in their DNA " to Blab." By the end of the day, everyone in town knows which woman will be stoned to death.

Some Navy Seals from Team 6 told their mothers and wives that they were 'safe; not to worry about them.'

They probably had a false sense of feeling safe when they thought they only had to trust their buddies when it came to covering their back. Did they stop to think that they couldn't trust the reliability of their equipment or the intelligence report for this expedition? Or whether they were considered expendable by a military and government who likes to give orders without thought for the safety and life of a soldier. I hear some people say," It's their job. They asked for it." Some people just don't care about the life of a soldier and that's why they get paid so little. They don't get a 100% of their pensions and health care benefits for life like our Congressmen or President, after just one term ( 4 to 6 years) in office.

As far as the military equipment goes: We should know by now that the USA government pays exorbitant prices for some ill equipped military combat vehicles that even an illiterate village ruffian can destroy with some kind of primitive IED or rocket launcher.

But don't ask me, I am just a mother who wants to "prevent"accidents by using all my resources.

The government and military have a hell of a lot more resources than I have. I only have google.

Some history:

World War II

.... in 1944 some Churchill tanks had sections of track attached to their existing armour to provide extra protection. M8 Greyhound crews would sometimes line the floors of their vehicles with sandbags to provide extra protection against landmines. U.S. tanks sometimes had spare strips of track welded to the hulls. This was done with the Sherman,

Iraq

A U.S. Army 5-ton cargo truck with improvised armour on the doors, rear gunner's box, and an improved bumper.

In post-invasion Iraq, improvised vehicle armour is colloquially referred to as Hillbilly armor, farmer armor or hajji armor by American troops.

When American troops first took Baghdad, only the U.S. military police had fully armoured vehicles. During the occupation that followed the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, insurgent forces deployed roadside bombs, RPG teams, and snipers with small arms to attack military vehicles on supply convoys and other known routes.

To protect themselves from these threats, American troops began reinforcing their Humvees, LMTVs and other vehicles with whatever was available, including scrap metal, kevlar blankets and vests, compromised ballistic glass and plywood. In some cases they relied on Iraqis to assist them in these efforts, and referred to the result as "Hajji" armour. They were also officially advised to line the floors of their Humvees with sandbags to deaden the impact of land mine explosions. A similar practice was common among M8 Greyhound crews during WW2.

Some officers in Iraq were disciplined over their refusal to carry out missions in what they considered improperly armoured vehicles.

Military-supplied "up-armour"