French air support arrived two hours after Islamic State-aligned fighters began a deadly ambush on U.S. Green Beret advisers in Niger, according to a new timeline provided Monday by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
However, it was still unclear why the team of 12 U.S. soldiers and their partner force of 30 Nigeriens waited a full hour after the firefight began to request backup from French Mirage fighter jets, or why the body of one soldier, Sgt. La David Johnson, was found two days later by the Nigeriens, Gen. Joseph Dunford said during a press conference at the Pentagon.
"What tactical instructions the commander on the scene gave at a given time that caused units to maneuver and where they might have been when Sgt. Johnson's body was found, those are all questions we'll identify during the investigation," he said.
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