private aviation under contract to the u.s. military in west africa went in after the firefight and evacuated the dead and the wounded. until now we had only been told that french helicopters, french military helicopters went in and of course they would have been armed. we still believe it is the case that they went in and also evacuated some, but what we're trying to find out, and this is a very key point, did both the contractor plane, which is not armed, and the french military helicopter evacuate dead and wounded americans? did both of those aircraft have good communication? quite bluntly, did they do a nose count? did they know how many people they were supposed to evacuate and did they have them all when they lifted off from that area? because la david johnson got left behind for 48 hours and the major question is what happened to him? how he became separated and how