A Marine Corps member of Delta Force has been awarded the Navy Cross for his role in the defense of Americans in Benghazi, Libya, according to the Washington Times reports:
The Times can now report that one of the Delta Force members was an Army soldier and the other a Marine. […]
The Tripoli embassy’s rescue team faced a daunting task. First, the embassy had to find an airplane because the plane assigned to it had been taken away by the State Department.
The State Department also pulled a military site security team and civilian diplomatic security officers despite warnings from U.S. personnel inWashington that Benghazi was becoming a war zone and increasingly unsafe. […]
There, the team joined in the annex’s defense, when three mortar rounds hit, killing two former Navy SEALs who were CIA security officers. It is believed the Delta troops moved those men and a wounded State Department security officer off an annex roof. The 30 or so Americans were evacuated by convoy to the Benghazi airport.
