17 October 2007

Special forces

I watched an episode of "The Unit" last night on CBS.

The first story line involved three members of the Army's secret Rangers unit going into a foreign country to rescue workers at an American embassy that was under fire.

Bullets were hitting the building and breaking out the newspaper-covered windows as the group was exiting to a waiting bus.

The ambassador and some of the workers were not following orders and were very resistant to leaving.

One of "the unit" members was hit by a bullet in the arm in the first scene because of a delay by the ambassador.

After several other embassy workers were killed because they weren't listening to the instruction of the experts there to help them escape, my wife said, "I couldn't do a job like that where the people I was helping didn't want to be saved".

I responded, "It is all in a day's work."