[19th LA Inf]

I do not think five or ten more helicopters would have made any difference, as there was very little chance that the hostages would have been rescued. But if they had all been killed in the attempt in April, by November the whole mess would likely have been forgotten by the media.

[berdie]

But didn’t Perot get his people out? Causing even further embarrassment. But perhaps my memory is faulty.

[squidly]

The Delta Force guys were and are convinced that the mission would have succeeded if they'd only had transport. Beckwith made the decision to abort because they were one helo short of what they'd pre-identified as their minimum number.

But I guess we'll never really know.