https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla Rick Rescorla Cyril Richard Rescorla (May 27, 1939 – September 11, 2001) was a
United States Army officer and private security officer of British origin who served as a
commissioned officer in the
Vietnam War, where he was a
second lieutenant in the United States Army.
[2] As the director of security for the financial services firm
Morgan Stanley at the
World Trade Center, Rescorla anticipated attacks on the towers and implemented evacuation procedures credited with saving many lives.
[3] He died during the
attacks of September 11, 2001, while leading evacuees from the South Tower.
Rescorla left Hayle in 1956, aged 17, to join the British military.
[3] He enlisted in the
British Army in 1957, training as a
paratrooper with
The Parachute Regiment and then serving with an intelligence unit in
Cyprus during the
EOKA Cypriot
insurgency[4] from 1957 to 1960.
[3] He then served as a paramilitary police inspector in the
Northern Rhodesia Police (now the
Zambia Police Service)
[4] from 1960 to 1963, experiences which made him a fierce anti-Communist.
[3] It was during the latter post that he met and forged a "life-altering friendship" with American soldier
Daniel J. Hill, who inspired Rescorla to
join the U.S. Army and fight in Vietnam[4] in order to fight the communists.
[3] On returning to
London and civilian life, he joined the
Metropolitan Police Service.