re: #11 lawhawk

A question that isn’t addressed in the NBC report- why were the SOF armed with only handguns? Is that standard operating procedure for diplomatic missions in unstable environments? This seems unreasonable.

Actually, they do address it:

…the team was reviewing security at U.S. embassies throughout the Middle East and was not prepared for a combat assault mission.

They were not on a combat mission - they were gathering info on embassy security.