All along, "not abandoning a comrade-in-arms" has been the best synonym for the image and fighting spirit of the US military, and has even been "recognized" internationally.
The reason for this situation is due to Hollywood blockbusters, as well as American game companies, who use war movies and war games to make the US military's "not abandon a comrade-in-arms" successfully out of the circle...
For example, the phrase "No one gets left behind" in "Black Hawk Down" is impressive.
There is also a class to save one person's "Saving Private Ryan", and a person infected a company of films such as "Hacksaw Ridge", all of which are consciously or unconsciously promoting this idea.
So, can the real US military do what in the movie "does not abandon every comrade-in-arms"?
The creeps will dissect along the timeline of the US military to see what the reality is.
The origins of the phrase "don't abandon every comrade-in-arms" can be traced back to before the establishment of the United States independently, from the soldiers of rogers commandos.
Rogers Commandos were a product of the Anglo-French War of 1756 (i.e., the Seven Years' War between England and France), when the British and French "lined up to shoot each other" in North America, recruiting some commandos from among the local indigenous hunters to serve as their own mercenaries.
The Rogers Commandos are one of them.
In fact, many of these commandos are local militias, and small partners familiar with American history should know that American independence depends on these militias!
When it comes to the militia organization in the United States, the small soldiers can't help but spit a few words.
Now the American militia marches and demonstrates with guns one by one on weekdays, as if they are full of martial virtue, in fact, they are a group of embroidered pillows!
The president who supports him has been "socially killed" by the Democratic Party and a group of capitalist oligarchs, and none of them have the courage to take a gun and work hard;
And now in Texas, a group of people is not as expensive as a group of turtles, one by one would rather freeze to death at home, and no one dares to stand up like the ancestors and play the "Texas gunshots"...
If the British had encountered such American militias, it is estimated that the United States is still a British colony...
In the end, during the Civil War, the most deadly war in American history, the Space for "Not Abandoning Every Comrade-in-Arms" was suddenly much smaller.
Because there was a great controversy between the Confederate army and the northern army over the disposal of black soldiers, the implementation of this concept was greatly affected.
When it came to the world war, the First World War, the US military was just messing up and picking up leaks, ignoring it, and the focus was on The Second World War.
In World War II, the US military is "depending on the situation", if it can not go deep behind the enemy's back, it will not save ...
By the time of the Vietnam War, the situation was different.
At this time, the United States is already a superpower, and the opponent is a country such as Vietnam, which is not large, limited in depth and not strong in strength, and the US military directly and clearly "will not let a comrade-in-arms fall into the hands of the enemy army."
In November 1970, the United States carried out the "Ivory Coast Operation", which had been planned for several months, and rushed to the Shanxi prisoner of war camp in the hinterland of Vietnam to rescue 70 American prisoners of war who were imprisoned there.
Although the operation was not successful, it was mainly because the intelligence was inaccurate and the air was empty, not that the mission failed, at least it proved that the US military was indeed working hard.
▲Simulated sand table of the West Hill Prisoner of War Camp prepared before the operation
In recent years, there have been more such examples, after all, there are fewer wars of equal strength, and the US military will not be taken prisoner in large quantities.
For example, in "Black Hawk Down", two special operators go to rescue the captured pilot, there is a realistic prototype.
In the real world, in order to rescue the pilot Durant, the two sergeant majors of the Delta Force were both killed.
▲ Two special forces soldiers rescue pilots in "Black Hawk Down"
In 2014, the United States also exchanged five Taliban prisoners for a captured American soldier...
Now, not abandoning a comrade-in-arms has also become an oath when American soldiers enlist.
In addition, there is also a concept propagated in the US military, that is, whether dead or alive, they must go home. In Hawaii, the U.S. military established the Joint Prisoner of War and Missing CombatAnts Investigation Command (JPAC), a command of the U.S. Department of Defense that searches for the remains of dead U.S. soldiers.
Combing through it, the tradition of the US military "not abandoning a comrade-in-arms" has indeed been maintained well, of course, there are many exceptions.
During the aforementioned Civil War, because the Confederate Army did not agree to treat blacks equally, the Confederate Army gave up the exchange of prisoners, resulting in the deaths of at least 13,000 Confederate prisoners...
PS: In terms of killing and torturing prisoners, the US military has also inherited a good heritage, all in the 21st century, and it can't change the style of the slave owners era...
In World War II, the U.S. army was defeated in the Battle of the Philippines, and MacArthur himself ran in a torpedo boat, leaving behind more than 10,000 American officers and men.
For the American troops captured in the Philippine campaign, the United States did not have any rescue operations at first, until 1945, when the American troops had landed on three sides of Luzon, and more than 100,000 troops had approached Manila, and there was a surprise rescue operation.
The rescue operation was a success and was then made into the movie "The Great Sneak Attack".
▲ Stills of "The Great Sneak Attack"
Of course, the movie will not tell you that the main force of the US army has approached Manila, the 11th airborne division will parachute in Manila on the day of the operation, it will only tell you that there are thousands of Japanese main forces not far from the US commando force, the action is to pull teeth out of the tiger's mouth, how the US commando team is wise and courageous, how to fight with few enemies and more...
In fact, by 1945, many of the American troops captured in the 1942 Battle of the Philippines had already been killed by the Japanese army, and it was only at this time that they came to the rescue.
In fact, in the European battlefield, there have been similar operations.
In March 1945, Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army, sent an armored detachment deep into the Heart of Germany to raid a prisoner-of-war camp and rescue prisoners there.
The commander of the rescue detachment was Captain Abraham Baum, so this rescue detachment was also known as "Baum Task Force".