A Decorated Naval Doctor's Daring Rescue of Fox News Correspondent Benjamin Hall from Ukraine
[FoxNews.com] Dr. Richard Jadick, known as the most decorated military doctor to have served in Iraq, was teaching a course in Tennessee when he got a call from "Save Our Allies" asking him to help carry out rescue missions in Ukraine.
Days later, [Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall] was struck by incoming fire from Russian forces outside of Kyiv ...
"I went upstairs and saw Ben," Jadick recalled. "I said 'Ben, you don't know me. I'm Rich Jadick. I'm a physician. I'm here to get you out.' And he said, 'When you want to go?' I said we'll get ready in 20 minutes, we're going to get you packaged up and we're going to figure out a way to get you out of here."
Jadick said he was grateful to be "at the right place with the right people at the right time," and credited "Save our Allies" for positioning the group in the region.
To extract Hall from the combat zone, the group worked with the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, along with the Polish and Ukrainian militaries. The effort on the ground was led by a "special operations and intelligence veteran," the group revealed, as the team made sure Hall was stabilized and overseen by military medical personnel during the transport.
"Ben had some critical injuries that required a lot of attention," Jadick said. "One of the hallmarks of evacuating a patient is patients get worse under rough conditions getting out of a bad situation. And the bad situation could have been made worse just by getting in the wrong kind of evacuation situation, so we worked hard at putting together the right scenario to get him out safely," he explained.
Once successfully evacuated from Ukraine, Hall was transported across the border to Poland and ultimately to the Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany where he is receiving care.
"I want to put my hats off to the guys that I was with who put that all together. ‘Save Our Allies’ are the ones who had us in the right position to be able to do for Ben what he needed, which is a safe, easy recovery," Jadick said.
"Save Our Allies," a nonprofit organization, was founded back in August with the goal of rescuing Americans and other U.S. allies caught behind enemy lines following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and subsequent Taliban takeover.
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