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>> it is excellent training particularly for younger individuals in our squadron who have not deployed overseas. >> for two weeks 1,800 men and women from all branches of the military practice responding to real world scenarios. everything from combat to natural disasters, the air force prepares for it all. that is because they respond to it all. >> whether bringing medical personnel to the injured, evacuating the injured or re leasing supplies to those locations. >> successful real life missions depend on the skills taught. before operation it is highly coordinated and perfectly timed from th...

Together, working together and training together. >> the operation is highly coordinated and perfectly timed from the guys on the ground to the crew in the helicopter to the ac-130 plane flying high above telling everyone where to go. if it sounds complicated, it is supposed to. >> it is the best of the trained for the hardest mission. >> that is why most exercises don't go according to plan on purpose. >> you do a lot of stuff while out there. you pull security, you move tactically, you treat patients. >> senior air man benjamin sanders was the power rescue man or p.j. who saved me but i didn...

>> that's a pretty amazing story. >> pretty scary. >> and again, had your c 17 been tapped sometime during that seven hour, eight-hour period -- >> if we would have gotten the call right when this all kicked off, if they would have made a decision, one of the other things they told me was that they had requested that a c 130 be on standby at the airport a month prior. >> a month prior to 9/11. >> and the request was denied. so they had requested something to be on standby there in >> in case it got hairy. >> uh-huh. >> why tell this now? >> i don't think a lot of the truth is necessarily been ...

Comes in to play. he knows his hearts of hearts he walked away from the post, he's thinking what's going to happen to me when i get to the other side. he's very nervous. he might have been in shock the fast pace this all happened. uneasy, edgy, nervous, frightened, identified more with his captors after five years than the guys that wear the same uniform he used to wear. >> it's crazy. >> hard to say. >> how quickly and well orchestrated the whole thing went off, at least from my -- >> clock work. >> clock work. the fact, as we watched some of the u.s. special forces you see them sort of facin...

Is coordination getting any better? is transparency getting any better? >> reporter: in all fairness, the malaysians have said yes, there is a radar track that shows this plane traveling west into the indian ocean since early on. on saturday. they dispatched a c 130 to search that area on the northern end of the strait of malacca. the reason is as they explain it, they did not know for sure whether this was flight 370. now, in the middle of the week when we asked them about our source and the way that this plane was headed, they said they had to reconcile that, they had to get all of this data...