You can call it a bad day...
Or you can, quite understandably, think this increased level of damage to US planes and helicopters makes perfect sense, if they are focused on softening up Iran for a possible invasion.

If it happens this weekend, it would, by definition, not have as many possible troops involved. Maybe 6000, possibly less if just the Marines. Other Marines are reportedly still enroute.

For what it's worth, this is where the jet was reportedly downed.