base used by usairmen. peter newman is a professor of security studies with kickngs london college. we keep hearing that there is no specific threat out there. but there is obviously enough buzz to worry folks here in the united states, even force them to cancel these events in england. what are you hearing about all of this? i think the background is the height ened threat since last year isis changed its strategy and it is calling on people on its enthusiastic supporters in the west to strike out and to do stuff. and ever since we ve seen attacks in sidney and in copenhagen, in paris. all these people were not necessarily formally affiliated with the islamic state. they were enthusiastic supporters. they did stuff on their own and i guess that s the fear right now. that makes it so difficult and
colonel rob was aboard the first plane top land at sendai after the tsunami. i think anything you see on tv, hollywood with their special effects can t put in perspective the amount of destruction on the day we arrived. sweeping in for landing our else is, we see none of that. you can probably see for the most part behind us it looks great. it really does. the transition is amazing. given what happened here the day of the disaster. but get away from the runway and you see the reminders. which a literal army of 240 usairmen, soldiers and marines alongside japanese civilians frantically worked to clear. by just dumb luck, there were no large passenger planes here when the wave hit but hundreds of mostly private aircraft weren t so lucky and look at though they fell from the sky, even ones in the hangars weren t spared. this is the entrance here the an sendai like any normal earn
eject? do you make that decision together? in a to-man cockpit, you would. you would discuss the situation and based on training and lots of training and emergency procedures, you know, as the air crew in that jet exactly what is going to operate and what won t. and they obviously realize that the jet wasn t going to fly any more, so it was time to jump out. and the difficulty with flying over libya is you really don t know who is the enemy and who is not, who is the rebels and who is pro-gadhafi forces. so you ve ejected and you ve landed in this terrain. these people run up to find you. it took them four hours to find this pilot. these rebels to find the usairmen. what do you do when you land on the ground? several different things. first of all, off to determine your own capacity, are you injured, are you safe? what is the terrain? are there friendlies nearby that