Why did the Navy commandos take four hours to reach the location in the Mumbai terror attacks? Did the Navy create bureaucratic delays in sending its Marine Commandos into the operations? More than a week after the Mumbai attacks, the post mortems and the finger pointing hasn't ended. According to Johny Joseph, the Chief Secretary of Maharashtra, he made a SOS request for commandoes to the Army, which said it didn't have commandos, but would send five columns.