Columbia Hostage Rescue: A Vignette On Personnel Recovery
Sent in by a reader, this is the full version of the clip referenced in the Jungle Crash post. Its an important watch for a number of reasons, but chief among them is the critical role of personnel recovery:
Students in class have heard me emphasize in every course the importance of personnel recovery- as in, if you don’t have a plan to recover your people and an extraction team on standby to recover them, you may as well not be patrolling. I’ll say it again- if you are headed into harm’s way and you don’t have an extraction plan set up, you’re planning to fail.