Actually Eric, for the commander of AFRICOM would have to have permission to deploy any of his units that are under his command if not already in the immediate vicinity. Had their been units in Libya then the ground commander would have the authority to call his units to help. Since the nearest people in Africa were about an hour or so away, and in a different country in the continent, then yeah, the prez would have to authorize that. At minimum the SECDEF could authorize that as well. Why the units were never sent I don't know. General Ham said that he was not told to send units. I am sure though that he did have people on stand by as a QRF once he knew what was going on. I am sure he was frustrated not to be able to send them.
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