title: Saving Lives: The S.A.F.E. Model for Resolving Hostage and Crisis Incidents (Praeger Security International)
author:  Mitchell R. Hammer 
description: "Hammer is on to something that not only is important for successfully ending hostage situations with or without use of tactical operations personnel but also is consonant with important trends in the last 80 years of cultural anthropology, psychology, and the human sciences.Hammer's work contains solid, practical information. We may handle such events more safely because of it. More needs to be done, and Hammer is pointing a way forward." - <strong>PsycCRITITQUES</strong>
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  # **Chapter Fourteen**
  
  "All of the surviving hostages have been extracted and are on their way to
  Germany on a medical evacuation flight," Secretary Brandeis told the packed
  audience. "They will be given a brief medical check in Germany, then returned
  to the States. Our first priority is getting them back to their families,
  although some of them are in poor psychological condition. On that score, they
  have bonded rather strongly with the SEAL team that was dropped in to hold the
  position and the team will be accompanying them all the way back to the
  States. This is at the rather pointed request of some of the young ladies who
  refused to board the evac plane unless the SEALs went too.
  
  "The person known as Ghost is on the same evac plane and is in critical
  condition. Military doctors at the transfer point in Iraq stabilized him
  enough for movement but it's touch and go. Doctors have told me that w