gfP; It is part of the propaganda machine playbook. Look at the Jessica Lynch story almost a decade ago. The Pentagon tried to prop the woman up as some heroic figure who held off the enemy, was captured, etc. Many (if not all) or the other soldiers who could collaborate or debunk Pentagon propagandist Jim Wilkerson's hoax story have met suspicious deaths. Some of those deaths even occurred while the soldiers were stateside. It was covered in infowars so I'm sure you might be familiar with the story and the aftermath. In the latest incident you mention, those Navy Seals were sent on a suicide mission in a slow moving helicopter for a reason. And I would't be surprised if we learned that the Taliban was tipped off by some USA black ops that the Seals were coming. And look at the Pat Tillman story. First he was killed by enemy fire. Then it was finally determined to be from "friendly" fire. Infowars claims he was going to blow the whistle on Karzai's brother and his massive opium production and other corruption and was basically silenced the old fashioned way. Again, I wouldn't put it past our corrupt government.