 In some extreme situations, and depending strongly on the particular organization, wounded personnel who cannot travel may be killed by their own side, to avoid capture, with potential interrogation, perhaps under torture, and compromise of the special reconnaissance mission.Killing wounded personnel is described as a feature of Soviet and Russian Spetsnaz doctrine.A variant described for US personnel was explained to a US forward air controller, by a MACV SOG officer, "If I decide that there's no way we can effect your rescue [in Cambodia], I’ll order the gunships to fire at you to prevent the enemy from getting their hands on you.