[jlo mein]

Originally Posted by jeedee

13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

the only thing that bothered me was... the unlimited ammo and some of the characters decision making

Spoiler!

like Wickland wanting to drive when his eyes were dried out and going right when he was told to go LEFT 10 FREAKING TIMES

Read the book, it provides a lot more details. Tanto is described as loading up a bag with over 30 magazines. That doesn't include all the other mags each guy was carrying. They also carried several belts of ammo for their machine guns. They had so much ammo because they were a defensive force and knew to repell any attack they would need to establish massive fire superiority. (And true to the movie, they figured getting any support would be difficult)

In regards to your second issue,

Spoiler!

DS Agent Wickland did drive the wrong route leaving the compound. Wickland was already suffering severe diesel smoke inhalation from repeated searches for the ambassador. He had blurry vision, slow reaction, and was told to stand down but he continued searching. After a lull in the fighting, attacks on the compound renewed, and in the chaos Wickland was in the driver seat and told to go the round about route back to the Annex. Like in the movie, he went the more direct route which resulted in trouble.

An interesting read is the House Select Committee report on Benghazi released two years after the attack in 2014. Remember that in September 2012 Obama was up for re-election in two months, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was planning a future presidential run.

The day after the attack, Hillary publicly stated the attack was a spontaneous mob reaction to a controversial anti-muslim video posted on YouTube. The Obama administration continued this lie for two weeks. The House report confirms that the same day Hillary made her public statement about the video lie, she sent a private email to her daughter saying she knew the attack was preplanned and orchestrated by Al Queda. They stuck with the lie because Hillary was the one responsible for lowering security standards at all foreign embassies and compounds, and they knew she would get blamed if the attack was preplanned.

There is speculation that Hillary also ordered the Annex security team to stand down when they were ready to move to defend the ambassador compound. Hillary was afraid of the political repercussions of a secret CIA base being discovered if the team launched a rescue. The Annex CIA chief was in touch with Washington during the event, and in the House report all the security team members testified they received a specific order not to go. The CIA chief and the Department Of Defense testified no hold order was given. The report accepted the testimony of the CIA chief.

Wiki: House Select Committee on Benghazi

The wiki gets interesting after you learn one of Hillary's advisors on Benghazi before and after the attack is Sidney Blumenthal, who was employed by the Clinton Foundation (not the government) and had private business and financial interests in Benghazi. He sent emails to her private server, the hard drive of which the Clintons deleted when Congress requested they turn it over. I'm not making this up.