After the release, the officers fled to foreign countries along with their family and the regime of Taliban started.
No officer should flee an enlisted man in a situation like this, or pull rank to get out of a difficult situation.
And when their officers shot a few of them, the members of the 9th, returned the fire, killed the officers then fled.
Since that, the Djiboutian officer had fled the country and was now a witness.
The officers had fled as an American force of several thousand marines approached the city overnight.
The officer of the watch panicked and fled the chart room by a back exit.
Many officers and men fled without firing a shot.
The "officers," who are in fact criminals, then flee with the money.
The Cuban guards and officers were fleeing, the gates of the compound wide open.
When the officers approached the two, though, one cursed and both fled, the official said.