>>13764068V22 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff, all hands lost.
A10 expends all ammo and most of its fuel destroying the wreckage of the V22 (cant have airborne Uruk now, can we?) and returns to base to report the loss.
The element of Marines becomes hopelessly lost in the hills around Rohan because they don't know enough to take the compass or map away from an officer, wrecks a village out of boredom, then gets slaughtered to the man in their sleep by angry rohirrim avenging their village.
The small handful of survivors, half starved and filthy, get mowed down at the gates of Gondor because they blurted something stupid to the challenge at the gate as per the challenge and password of the day for their element.