the spec ops guys chickened out and blamed the Marines.
One RH-53 is capable of carrying at least 60 troops easily they had 5, do the math.
So your contention is that everyone just cancelled the mission at Desert 1 because they were actually afraid and just didn’t want to actually raid the embassy at all because they had chickened out, so they were just lying about five helicopters not being enough to perform the mission and went home.
This thread is just too childish and high school, this is just incredible stuff.