What Would You Do?

[Montagnard]

You are a commander of a Blackhawk helicopter squadron that has among your missions the responsibility for providing Medevacing wounded from the battlefield. You receive a call for urgent response to remove a seriously wounded solider from the battlefield. You have also been ordered by the commanding General of your squadron to commit all your helicopters to transporting troops and camera crews to a site to re-enact the taking of a military objective. The question is what would you do? Medevac the wounded solider, or take the General to film a reenactment.

This is the story behind the question.

On or about April 10, 2003, in the vicinity of Haditha Dam, a member of Delta Force was wounded. Sergeant Major Bladras of Delta Force radioed Ar’ar the command headquarters requesting a medevac flight for the wounded solider. The Blackhawks used for medevac were ready to go; the only thing was they had already received order for a mission: a General Dell Dailey operation to film one of Saddam’s empty palaces as part of an information operations campaign. It took four and half hours (approximately an hour flight) to Medevac the injured Delta operator, who later bled to death. Later that night the Black Hawks flew Dailey’s commandos to the empty palace and combat camera crews filmed every bit of a staged attack. The film was then flown to a psychological operations team in Kuwait, it was never used.

(Source of story, COBRA II, Gordon and Trainor, page 442-43)

[bryant69]

1. I'm not sure about the question

This does seem like a study in futility, but I suspect I would do exactly what these people did.

Bryant
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