How unusual is five days? In Vietnam were pilots rescued after a period of five times?
It sounds like… A: Yes, it’s happened. It depends upon so many circumstances, it would be hard to speculate. Whether the circumstances are physical conditions, environmental conditions, enemy circumstances, friendly capability — which obviously in this situation was not a constraint, because once we found him, they were there as fast as they could be. So I wouldn’t call it normal, I wouldn’t call it abnormal. Q: What would he have to defend himself? I take it he had a handgun or… A: I don’t know the answer to that either, ma’am, quite frankly. I don’t know what they carry on these missions. Thank you. Kennett: Next we have a veteran F-16 pilot who can give you some of that generic idea of what Captain O’Grady might have been carrying. Lieutenant Colonel Bob Zielinski who is United States Air Force on the Air Staff. Lieutenant Colonel Zielinski: Good morning. I’ve been out of the F-16 now for about three years, serving here on the Air Staff in the Pentagon, so I’ll try to answer an
