general barry mccaffree is here. 32-year army veteran including four combat terms. general, talk about these men. what kinds of men would have been on a mission like this, estimated six to ten similar extraction missions going on every night while we sit here. >> well, clearly, that special ops community has carried a disproportionate burden. to put it in context, there are 15,000 killed and wounded so far in the war in afghanistan so there's a real fight going on. the tier one, jsocs special ops, a ranger regimen, delta from the army and the navy s.e.a.l.s and the aviation regimen are the premiere fighting force so when their buddies were in trouble, they were ready to lay down their lives to rescue their friends. >> let's talk about the mission, the equipment, the tactics you've flown in thousands of these chinook duel rotar helicopters. i've flown in far fewer. they were introduced in 1958. they are used as flying buses in both of these wars. they were sending, in this case, as you say, our top tier warriors. should anything about the practice be reviewed? >> wel