Oh, and that USMC rapid response team is using the VC-22 Osprey, the top speed is 316mph - let’s say they’re pushing it to the max and are going 350mph. The trip from the Spanish base to Benghazi - 2400km, would take 4 hours 47 minutes. That, plus the 6 hour time to wheels up means that it’s nearly 11 hours after the call is made to send in the Marines.

And this is what the logistics people in the Marines know is possible. It’s not some chairborne ranger saying that they’ll be there in 30 minutes or less.

We simply don’t have the assets or willingness to put a group of troops in the air at all times to respond anywhere on the planet to a distress call. It was never done that way, and even the movies show that it takes time to get these things together - whether it was the Raid on Entebbe (based on the real deal) or the Delta Force flicks.