{"id":1422670,"date":"2022-04-06T20:59:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422670"},"modified":"2022-04-06T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:59:40","slug":"the-stuff-of-movies-fox-news-pentagon-reporter-worked-behind-the-scenes-to-get-gravely-wounded-colleague-out-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-stuff-of-movies-fox-news-pentagon-reporter-worked-behind-the-scenes-to-get-gravely-wounded-colleague-out-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Stuff Of Movies\u2019: Fox News Pentagon Reporter Worked Behind The Scenes To Get Gravely Wounded Colleague Out Of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-stuff-of-movies-fox-news-pentagon-reporter-worked-behind-the-scenes-to-get-gravely-wounded-colleague-out-of-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422670&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-103629250.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin teared up during a recent interview as she mentioned her fallen colleagues \u2014 veteran cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and 24-year-old Ukrainian producer Oleksandra \u201cSasha\u201d Kuvshynova \u2014 and wounded war correspondent Benjamin Hall.<\/p>\n<p>But behind the scenes, it was Griffin who kick-started the operation that eventually got <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/your-feelings-are-our-feelings-bret-baier-responds-as-jennifer-griffin-breaks-down-in-tearful-tribute-to-fallen-fox-news-colleagues\/\">the injured Hall<\/a> out of war-torn Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>As People <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/inside-the-daring-operation-to-rescue-injured-fox-news-reporter\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><em>It was around noon on Monday, March 14, when a French reporter began tearing down the halls of the Pentagon with grave news to share. The other journalist stopped outside the Fox News press booth where Griffin, the network\u2019s longtime national security correspondent, was inside working.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><em>Their question for her was short but startling.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><em>\u201cThey said, \u2018Has your team been hurt?\u2019 \u201d Griffin recalled in a recent interview. \u201cAnd at that moment, I didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Griffin told People that her first move was to call Jay Wallace hoping to find out more information. Wallace knew that Hall had been hurt, but asked Griffin whether she knew who had been with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s when I realized that [veteran cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski] was with him,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd then [\u2018Sasha\u2019 Kuvshynova]\u00a0also was missing,\u201d Griffin said. \u201cSo at that point, I said to Jay, \u2018Do you want me to help?\u2019 And he said, \u2018Yes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin\u2019s next stop was Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby \u2014 and he reminded her that President Joe Biden\u2019s promise not to send American troops to Ukraine meant that the federal government could not take any official action to help them get to Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin had another plan in mind, however. \u201cIf I can get Benjamin to the border, can you have a team from Landstuhl help him?\u201d she asked, referencing a U.S. Army-controlled hospital in Germany \u2014 the largest of its kind outside the continental United States.<\/p>\n<p>That, Kirby said, was a workable solution \u2014 and Griffin went back to the phones. This time she called Save Our Allies cofounder Sarah Verardo to see if they could help.<\/p>\n<p><span>Save Our Allies already had teams on the ground working on getting high-risk individuals out of Ukraine, and Griffin asked whether they could manage one more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From People\u2019s report:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><em>Griffin tells PEOPLE they knew Hall was in one of three hospitals around Kyiv, so she \u201cput on [her] reporter hat\u201d and worked with security teams in the area to determine that Hall was at a border guard facility there.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><em>\u201cWe still did not know where Pierre and Sasha were at that point,\u201d Griffin says. \u201cThey were still missing. So we thought: Where do we go from here?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><em>Griffin soon learned that a veteran extraction specialist from the special operations community (working undercover, with the call-sign Seaspray) and a well-known combat surgeon and retired Navy officer, Dr. Rich Jadick, were both working with Save Our Allies. The two men were headed to find Hall and assess his injuries to assess whether \u2014 and how \u2014 he could be retrieved.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Jadick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/ukraine-russia-benjamin-hall-rescue-save-our-allies\">spoke of the rescue<\/a> in a late March interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went upstairs and I saw Ben. And I looked at \u2014 I look at him. I said, \u2018Ben, you don\u2019t know me. I\u2019m Rich Jadick. I\u2019m a physician. I\u2019m here to get you out.\u2019 And he said, \u2018When do you want to go?\u2019\u201d Jadick explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the hallmarks of evacuating a patient is patients get worse under rough conditions getting out of a bad situation. And the bad situation was or could have been made worse just by getting in the wrong kind of evacuation situation,\u201d Jadick continued \u2014 and after he arrived, the decision was made to move Hall. Over the next 12 hours, Jadick helped to keep Hall stable as they moved over rough terrain to get to the border.<\/p>\n<p>The People report continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer, a retired Marine who served on the backup team to extract Hall, explains to PEOPLE that he got involved after he was contacted by Save Our Allies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c[Russians] are indiscriminately dropping bombs,\u201d Meyer tells PEOPLE. \u201cIn the city that I was in, the air raid sirens were going off all through the night, and\u00a0all through the day \u2026 There\u2019s one thing you can guarantee: No one is safe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Griffin concurs, calling Hall\u2019s journey from war-torn Ukraine to a world-class military hospital \u201cthe stuff of movies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the Save Our Allies team worked to get Hall to the border, Griffin went back to the phones. A returned call from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed that a team would be waiting to transport Hall to Landstuhl once he crossed the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo extract Hall from the combat zone and arrange for his care at the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, the civilian rescue team worked with senior leaders at the Pentagon and at U.S. European Command in Germany. This was done at the direction of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin,\u201d a senior defense official told People.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plane was waiting at a Polish airport military base and it all went with not a minute to spare. It was like clockwork once you cross the border,\u201d Griffin added. \u201cI was sent a video through Signal of Benji getting on the helicopter being taken to the next leg where the Landstuhl team, the extraordinary military team, was waiting for him, and they took him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FOX released a statement once the extraction was complete, announcing that Hall was \u201csafe and out of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/fox-reporter-is-safe-and-out-of-ukraine-after-attack-that-killed-two-colleagues\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Fox News war correspondent Benjamin Hall is reportedly \u201csafe and out of Ukraine\u201d after being injured Monday when the vehicle he was in took fire from Russian occupation forces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hall, who was reporting just outside Ukraine\u2019s capital city of Kyiv, was taken to a local hospital and initially listed in serious condition. Two of his colleagues who were also in the vehicle \u2014 cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski (55) and local producer Oleksandra \u201cSasha\u201d Kuvshynova (24) \u2014 were killed in the same attack.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hall was stabilized at Landstuhl and was later moved to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same?\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin teared up during a recent interview as she mentioned her fallen colleagues \u2014 veteran cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and 24-year-old Ukrainian producer Oleksandra \u201cSasha\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}