Within minutes, the ambassador announces that he wants to leave. The civilians and the media join the demand for immediate evacuation. The Rangers have to fight their way through the town to reach a helicopter landing zone but are happy to see their meddlesome charges fly away. Offering a congratulatory present of sorts, Keen orders the captains to assault rebel headquarters. Keen and the other supervising officers critique the confusion at the embassy, where the Rangers failed to devise an efficient division of labor.
Pointed comments center on their handling of the ambassador.
The second-guessing continues for an hour and a half, and the participants frequently stand up and walk around the room so they will not fall asleep. By noon the captains are in a barracks at Fort Knox with time to kill before heading back to Ranger headquarters at Fort Benning, Ga., for a celebratory dinner. Hungry and too wired to rest, some decide to head for a Taco Bell a few blocks away. But before going out in public, they clean their weapons, shave, then shine their boots. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.