extraction mission
Get them out
An extraction mission is an operation to retrieve people—typically military personnel, intelligence agents, or civilians—from hostile or dangerous territory.
The term comes from military and espionage contexts but appears in action films and video games: The helicopter arrived for the extraction mission.
The mission prioritizes getting someone out rather than engaging the enemy.
- rescueSave from harm
- covertIntentionally concealed
- helicopterRotary-wing aircraft
- hostageCaptive held as security
- operativeCovert field agent
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- military interventioninvasion, military intervention, coalition forces, allied forces, ground forces
- missionschurch planting, apostle, convert, apostleship, evangelization
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