00:00I mean, one thing to learn all of that in a classroom situation and to be trained in that.
00:05Quite another out of Thor, after you've just ejected from a fighter jet,
00:10what sort of a toll does that take on the human body,
00:13that mere process of ejecting and coming down safely to land
00:17and then having to be physically and mentally 100% on top of your game?
00:24I mean, how difficult?
00:25Well, it's generally difficult because, you know, at our schools,
00:29each service runs its own survival, evasion, resistance, and escape school.
00:34The Air Force One is in Spokane, Washington.
00:37These are what we call high risk of capture schools.
00:42So you have to go through a full-scale simulation.
00:45No one ejects you from an airplane, of course.
00:47But what we do is we teach you what happens when your feet finally touch the ground.
00:52You are a hunted person.
00:54There are going to be locals who might have seen you.
00:56The most dangerous thing that you will find in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia environment
01:02is not armed police or soldiers, even though they may see your aircraft come down and explode.
01:08It's children with goats.
01:10They are everywhere.
01:11They will see you.
01:12They will tell people which direction that you went into.
01:16So you have to determine whether you're in competent health.
01:20When that aircraft exploded, the person who was sitting in the back seat, the second pilot, the weapons system officer,
01:27he could have been injured from shrapnel from the explosion of the engines.
01:31We saw the violent explosion of that aircraft.
01:34And he has to treat himself and then move as slowly as possible.
01:39We don't like people moving quickly, but move themselves along a route to where they can hide,
01:45communicate, move again, hide, communicate, and survive.
01:49We teach that in what's called a stress inoculation environment,
01:53where we put you in a very high stress, very close capture situation where the results of us finding you
02:01are not pleasant.
02:02You are beaten.
02:03You are slapped.
02:04You are put in very stressful positions.
02:07And then we bring you on to what's called resistance training,
02:10where we teach how to behave when you're captured.
02:12But in this instance so far, the pilot carried out all of his training and went through a conventional recovery
02:20with special forces coming to get him and bringing him out.
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