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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7804444" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>An even better (and more thoroughly documented) example - the Battle of Mogadishu - portrayed in <strong>Black Hawk Down</strong>.</p><p></p><p>I've done a little looking around and while there have been units espousing the "No one gets left behind" ethos in the US since the French and Indian War (so - pre-US technically), the issue really takes strongest hold in the Vietnam War and probably for a few reasons. </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It could be more credibly accomplished with helicopter extraction than in previous wars. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vietnam wasn't a war of territory acquisition in the first place - meaning that most wounded and dead on patrol or strikes were <strong>certainly</strong> going to be lost in enemy territory if not recovered. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Despite the controversies of the draft, the Vietnam war was fought mostly by volunteers (75% to 25%). Doing their best to get you back out was something of a social contract between the volunteers and the armed forces.</li> </ul><p></p><p>The extent to which this has spread to other US allies may have something to do with 2 of these factors - extractability and volunteerism in a democracy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 7804444, member: 3400"] An even better (and more thoroughly documented) example - the Battle of Mogadishu - portrayed in [b]Black Hawk Down[/b]. I've done a little looking around and while there have been units espousing the "No one gets left behind" ethos in the US since the French and Indian War (so - pre-US technically), the issue really takes strongest hold in the Vietnam War and probably for a few reasons. [list][*]It could be more credibly accomplished with helicopter extraction than in previous wars. [*]Vietnam wasn't a war of territory acquisition in the first place - meaning that most wounded and dead on patrol or strikes were [b]certainly[/b] going to be lost in enemy territory if not recovered. [*]Despite the controversies of the draft, the Vietnam war was fought mostly by volunteers (75% to 25%). Doing their best to get you back out was something of a social contract between the volunteers and the armed forces.[/list] The extent to which this has spread to other US allies may have something to do with 2 of these factors - extractability and volunteerism in a democracy. [/QUOTE]
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