Col. Childers made three errors at the Embassy

Rating: 8/10 (26 November 2019)

1) He failed to order his men to return the fire of the rooftop snipers who were a real and continuous threat to his men;
2) He failed to notify Red Six that the armed demonstrators were so close to the embassy walls that they were not visible to him or to his men, so they posed no threat provided they did not show themselves;
3) He engaged the armed demonstrators even though they posed no threat to his men - they were so close to the embassy walls that they could not fire on the Marines on the flat roof, who could simply have withdrawn to the helicopters on the far side.