00:00How much of an advantage do you think it was for this airman to have been in the kind of
00:05terrain he was in?
00:06Because, I mean, had it been open desert, I mean, he wouldn't have been able to hide anything like as
00:10easily as he could where he was, which was in a mountainous area.
00:14Well, you'd be surprised. The desert is a brilliant place to hide.
00:18It's just a question of where you come down on the ground, who sees you?
00:22The mountainous areas of the Zargos Mountains really helped him quite a bit.
00:27But it also gave him, I understand, a five-kilometer, almost a 10-kilometer trek that he had to do
00:34with injuries.
00:35He was injured coming out of the aircraft, and then he had to evade thousands of people who were looking
00:42for him.
00:43So that did work to his advantage.
00:45It also worked to the advantage of the people who were coming to rescue him as well.
00:50We do have a way of maintaining positive communications with a pilot.
00:55As soon as an aircraft is hit, it makes a loud beacon.
00:59There is a beacon that's in the ejection seat that tells the whole world the aircraft is now ejected.
01:05So we have, you know, how can I put it, thousands of years of combined experience of people who were
01:12shot down from the beginning of World War I through World War II, Vietnam, Korea.
01:17All these wars teaching, you know, giving us the ability to impart that curriculum so that anyone who shot down,
01:25like the pilots we had in Iraq, they felt very confident that even if they were captured, they could endure
01:31the experience due to the training they received.
01:34We'll see you next time.
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