Previewing Combat Rescue: The Last Stand

Last year National Geographic Channel premiered Inside Combat Rescue that followed around Pararescuemen while they try to save critically wounded soldiers in Afghanistan. Tonight the channel returns to the front lines with the two hour special Combat Rescue: The Last Stand. Operation Enduring Freedom may be winding down there are still plenty of insurgents left ready to put American soldiers in harm’s way.

For the special, camera will follow around “Reapers” an elite Air Force unit tasked with capturing or killing the highest level Taliban targets who threaten lives of the 36,000 people who call Bagram home. The specific Taliban commander is Subhanullah who is suspected of orchestrating multiple attacks on American in Afghanistan including possible involvement in a rocket attack that killed four soldiers waiting at a bus stop on base. Camera will follow a high ranking colonel into a Taliban-controlled village that may be harboring him in hopes that the town will give him up all the while the potential of an ambush still in play.

The special will also head to the skies once again to follow Pararescuemen, this time of the 83rd Rescue Squadron as they fly into hostile territory to rescue wounded comrades, coalition forces, and Afghan citizens. During the tumultuous month of July, when Independence Day attacks are known to spike, the PJs spring into action, flying into the heat of battle to save the critically wounded following a massive attack at a compound in the city of Kabul that killed seven people. Much like the series, Combat Rescue: The Last Stand is a well done documentary of some of the hardest jobs at war.

Combat Rescue: The Last Stand premieres tonight at 9:00 on the National Geographic Channel.