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Wow, that's the benefit of years of training to deal with crises.
'I heard guns being fired into the door to my room and I thought to myself, "This is not a good position to be in."' Not sure I could be quite that calm!
And then just when he thought things were looking up, he gets targeted by friendly snipers and tank fire.
A few years ago I worked at Thompson Reuters in London and saw a journalist with a black hood over his head and being bundled into the boot of a car and taken round the car park, that was part of the training given to the hostile environment team. It sounds like pilots have a similar high level of training for such areas.