Right, signed off by every Republican member of the Benghazi committee.
From orders to spool up is 25 minutes. Add another 10 minutes for taxi and rotation and you can easily get airborne in 45 minutes. I find it amusing you think that our troops are so incompetent. Remember, they're NOT politicians!
Providing you have a pilot on duty, providing you have planned the mission, providing everyone up the line has been notified, providing those people have approved the operation, provided it is fueled and ready to go, provided there is medical assistance and medevac approved and those personnel are available, etc.
Yes, they can get the job done pretty quickly, but a long range op is special and requires a lot more planning than a simple mission.Keep in mind you have to have ground control or you risk killing our own and that is a very important point to note, the op can't go forward without some ground guidance.