Sgt. Daniel Perry's attorney has said the soldier was working for a ride-sharing company and acted in self-defense after a protester pointed a gun at him.
The Philippine president has suspended his decision to terminate a key defense pact with the United States, at least temporarily avoiding a major blow to one of America’s oldest alliances in Asia.
"You don’t have but a nano-second to pull a reserve at 500 feet," one paratrooper recalled of the 1989 mission. "And we think it was probably low enough that it wouldn’t have worked anyhow.”