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Originally Posted by sasquatchgeoff
We enlisted personnel did not know it then, but we were part of the hostage rescue plan that ultimately failed with the Delta Force marine helicopter crash in a sandstorm in Iran. Tomorrow I will be paying tribute to those 8 marines, among others.
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Of the eight Americans who died at Desert One. three were marines, five were USAF.
Additionally, the mission had already been aborted prior to the fatal incident.