Just 70? Must have been just a couple of boots, then.
OooRah!
That's what I was thinking too. I read an article about a recent attack in Syria. Some Russian-backed forces were near one of our Marine outposts. 20 Marines. Several miles away were about 20 Army and Green Berets at more of a command post. (They were the first ones that saw the bad guys moving and getting together from their intel drones, etc.)
Anyway - a bunch of tanks, trucks and about 500 bad guys started moving towards the Marines. Soon after the bad guys attacked the 20 Army guys showed up. At the end of it 300 bad guys were dead and the others in retreat. No U.S. dead - maybe not any even injured.
While it started off with the Marines defending themselves with small-arms fire, it ended with artillery and air-strikes. I love the term “force multipliers”!
Made me laugh!
When it comes to sh!t like this I have a pretty EVIL CACKLE.