It was the middle of a military rescue operation trying to save lives.
The conventional narrative of hostages is to send in the military to rescue them.
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Uribe orders Colombian military to rescue former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three US contractors that the FARC are holding hostage.
They should be consulted prior to any covert military action, hostage rescue or military assistance to allies engaged in a military conflict.
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The RAF has also sent a Sea King helicopter, with a military mountain rescue team on board, from Anglesey in Wales to assist the rescue operation.
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The roads in the city of Yingjing, on the way to Lushan from Chengdu, were packed with heavy equipment brought in by military and rescue workers, but police were restricting much of the travel.
Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, the head of the local military units in charge of rescue operations.
The National Search and Rescue Agency and military have sent reinforcements to help deal with the disaster.
But faster helicopters would be useful, particularly for rescue missions and military operations, so engineers are constantly looking for ways to make them.
After 2017, military involvement in search and rescue will cease and a new civilian contract involving 10 bases across the UK will come into force.
The incentive problem comes from the fact that shippers have incentives to be careless since they can expect a taxpayer-funded military to come to their rescue.
After 2017 the military role in search and rescue will cease and a new civilian contract involving 10 bases across the UK will come into force.
In September, he graduated from a military search-and-rescue training course and was posted to RAF Valley, the station on the island of Anglesey in north Wales.
Sarkozy has told Betancourt's relatives in France that he will work to secure her release, but the French government is concerned that Uribe has ordered the military to intensify efforts to rescue the hostages from secret jungle camps.
This was not a military drill but a search and rescue exercise.
The success of the peacemaking mission in Sierra Leone has given heart to all who think that the rich world's military power should be used to rescue "failed states".
Military tactics and clandestine hostage-rescue methods were far from the minds of regular folks in Midland City on Wednesday, Ethan's sixth birthday, as they tried desperately to return to normal life while giving thanks for the heart-wrenching event's joyous outcome.
Ranger Nic Bullivant said snow-holing had traditionally been a life-saving skill learned by mountain guides, rescue teams, walkers and military personnel to protect themselves in bad weather.
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The US military has defended its handling of the rescue operation at the airport, saying it was doing "everything in our power to speed aid to Haiti as fast as humanly possible".
Search and rescue teams are working with the military, but so far, only 25 bodies have been recovered.
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She saluted law enforcement officers, military troops and volunteers who helped in the rescue and relief efforts, a number of whom were guests in the House chamber for the speech.
The decision to redeploy assets by the US military came after it defended its handling of the rescue operation.
Deputy Prime Minister Bill English said that 350 military personnel had been deployed to help with search and rescue efforts.
"There have always been serious questions about privatisation of search and rescue services, including the loss of the military training and excellence of our RAF crews who make the fleet so effective, " he said.
The fire service earlier said that rough seas were complicating the rescue efforts by the Fire and Rescue Service, National Border Guard, Coast Guard and military officials.
Dozens of other applications have been mapped out for U.S. and foreign military users ranging from peacekeeping support, emergency and disaster relief, search and rescue, medical evacuation, drug interdiction and other post-Cold War priority missions.
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But defence analyst Howard Wheeldon said the RAF and Navy had provided a fantastic service over so many years and most search and rescue services around the world remain in the hands of government or military.
Search and rescue operations are continuing for livestock missing in remote areas, and a military helicopter delivered emergency food supplies to stranded animals for a second day.
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