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.

By NC ScoutPublished On: February 21, 2020Categories: NC Scout, Tactical2 Comments

About the Author: NC Scout

NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .