There was a failed attempt to go in commando-style and rescue the hostages. There was catastrophic equipment failure and the mission was aborted. Carter went on national television to announce the failure.
I knew a guy who was at Desert One, but he was Army.
I know that of course...deployment in my mind (at the moment I posted) did not include the rescue mission, but I stand corrected and thanked RaceBannon.
My main issue in my comment was that obama is a grand scale liar, so even if that was obama who RaceBannon met, we'll never know from that encounter if he was telling the truth either way.
Same applies to everything he does today....we will never know if or when he is telling the truth unless it's a verifiable lie.