I'm no VBSS expert, but that assualt was fifteen different kinds of fucked up from the word "go."
Underwhelming force invites disaster. At the point that shit was being thrown at the RHIBs, it became a kinetic fight, and the intercept should have been taken over by the surface combantant, not the SOF bubbas. Tracer fire across the bow, with B2B comms and signal flags saying "HEAVE TO OR I WILL FIRE."
I cringed when I saw that the some of the S13 guys were taken below. They were initially defeated in detail, and it was probably only some pretty gutsy action that kept those guys from becoming human shields or worse. Second helo should have providing support by fire to the initial assualt, when it was obvious that things were going badly. The first assualt should have waved off when the IHH swarmed the rope. I would have assualted with a bigger force off CH53s, with the -60s in a overwatch/support by fire/C2/CASEVAC position.
Proper planning prevents piss-poor performance. There seemed to be alot of failure to plan for reasonably probable occurances during that evolution. SOF forces need to remember that no tab, school or beret overrules the basic tenets of physics or time tested tactics.
Those were all pretty nice ships for a bunch of activists, say compared to the Bob Barker. I wonder who is paying for them?