The military never searched for Commander Speicher, but in May 1991 declared him killed in action.
While searching for his commander, Master Chief learns that the Covenant had accidentally released the Flood, a parasitic alien race capable of spreading itself by overwhelming and infesting other sentient life-forms.
Three years later, Tonty led an unsuccessful expedition down the Mississippi River in a vain search for his missing commander.
A statement from the international forces confirmed that they had mounted an operation with Afghan forces in the area to search for a Taliban commander, and killed 2 senior Taliban leaders as well as 15 to 20 other insurgents.
His cousin Shad Mohammad Gul, 22, a sunburned villager with a worn AK-47, said the rest of the 15-man militia had left to search for their missing commander.
American Special Forces soldiers are helping Afghan commanders to search for Mullah Omar in the Baghran region, Afghan officials said.
Those officials said American military liaisons have advised rebel commanders to search out and capture, destroy or isolate those bands of Taliban soldiers before they can consolidate.
By the time Davis reached Georgia, fears that his large escort would draw the attention of numerous Union patrols crisscrossing the countryside in search of him prompted commanders to act.
Short, a British journalist and the author of "Mao: A Life," summarizes a half-century of Cambodian history and provides a searching biography of the commander of the Cambodian killing fields in the late 1970's.
U.S. commanders launched search and rescue aircraft from the Harry S. Truman, an aircraft carrier then 40 miles southeast of Farsi Island.
