Run­ning toward the fire: What dri­ves Rep. Cory Mills’s com­mit­ment to glob­al res­cue mis­sions

Uti­liz­ing the cov­er of dark­ness, a rotary wing air­craft, and a small team of staffers, Rep. Cory Mills (R‑FL) suc­cess­ful­ly res­cued 10 Amer­i­cans trapped in Haiti this week, mark­ing his third res­cue oper­a­tion in the face of glob­al crises.
The Unit­ed States Army vet­er­an said the need for the lat­est oper­a­tion was brought to his atten­tion by Rep. Lisa McClain (R‑MI), who was con­tact­ed by con­stituents about a group of Amer­i­cans work­ing in Haiti with the “Have Faith” orphan­age, who had no way to get out.

Rep. Cory Mills, R‑Fla., speaks dur­ing a press con­fer­ence with House Repub­li­cans and fam­i­lies of hostages being held in Gaza at the Capi­tol in Wash­ing­ton on Tues­day, Nov. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoad­es)

“[These cit­i­zens] essen­tial­ly were aban­doned and left behind by the U.S. State Depart­ment and …