Details on a secret mission to evacuate an injured Special Operations troop in Libya last year by the U.S. Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Africa (SP-MAGTF-CR-AF) has now emerge.
Col. Martin Wetterauer, commander of the 8th Marine Regiment, said the call came in between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. in Moron, Spain and a C-130 was used to pick up the casualty at Misrata and fly him to Landstuhl in Germany.