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This unit had with them to defend themselves? were they heavily defended or they go in like trucks not expecting much resistance? >> i'll answer the second part because i know. and i'll give you in general the first part. so they did not expect resistance on this particular patrol. at least when they first planned it. again, what happened subsequently will be the investigation. because the rules in that part of west africa are that we will only accompany our partnered forces when the chances of enemy contact are unlikely. so with that, they were equipmented with machine guns, small arms and co...

In africa are designed to support the training, advising and assisting of the local african partners. and we mitigate the risk to u.s. forces with specific guidance that we only accompany those forces when the prospects of enemy contact is unlikely. there are other areas in africa where we have a different construct. so what i just described to you is the construct that exists in west africa. clearly, and you've seen it in reen recent days, we have a difference operation against al qaeda, al shabab and al qaeda organizations inside of east africa. so, you know, we tailor the conduct of u.s. fo...

Can to mitigate it. when we're conducting these investigations which we call train, advise and assist, we don't normally accompany those local partnered forces when contact with the enemy is expected. so we do one of two things. we either stay back on the last cover and conceal position. that's before enemy contact is made. or we don't even go on an operation if enemy contact is made. outside of active hostilities, our focus is to enable local forces to be able to conduct operations against the enemy. okay. yes, ma'am. >> to say that the war on isis is shifting right now to africa? >> i think ...

>> general dunford, on the search for sergeant johnson's body, how many troops took part in that and how many partner ead allied forces as well? >> i can't. again, that's down to a level of detail that is really going to require the investigation to lay all that out. >> how many u.s. troops took part in the search? >> i can't tell you what -- again, i know how many u.s. troops were part of that original advise/assist mission. i don't know what each of those troops were doing at any given time once contact was made. so anything i'd tell you at this point, id'd be speculating. >> you said u.s. f...

She's getting information intel that they have not put out and this boko haram issue is real. i called a retired general who has vast knowledge as relates to that part of the world and the u.s. efforts with niger. this retired general said to me, look, this is not a unique effort. we have trained before as well as advised niger military when it comes to boko haram. they are linked with isis. so she is getting information that they don't want out. they want to control the narrative. this is what i don't understand. >> don, april makes a great point here, because beyond the issue of the call, ri...