OK, so he got confused over the model variant, but thats really only a trivial error.
Not in the heat of battle it's not when he, as a force commander would be assigning assets to tasks.
" Sir, we've got a pilot down in the sea."
"OK! Send a helicopter".
" But sir, we've only got an Apache on board"
" It's a helicopter isn't it?"
now leaves the discussion to people who are far better placed than me to add further comment.