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See also [[Honor Before Reason]], which this is usually a subtrope of.
Has nothing to do with [[George W. Bush|No Child Left Behind.]]
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== Live Action TV ==
* This is practically the motto of the SGC personnel from ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', where Jack O'Neill always insists that "we never leave our people behind".
** Most notable was the 2-parter episode "Heroes" which featured a [[Deconstruction]] of this trope when they show the cost of the rescue attempt of a single [[Red Shirt]]: numerous wounded, a small fortune of monetary expenses and most severely {{spoiler|Dr. Fraiser is [[Killed Off for Real]]. She does get a good sendoff though, with a [[Dead Guy, Junior]] (well, dead girl junior) and the second episode ending with a eulogy listing the names of people she's saved during the series}}.
** The above quote is from the episode "[[Those Two Guys|The Other Guys]]" where two scientists witness SG-1 getting captured. With this motto in heart, they attempt a more or less successful rescue {{spoiler|Only to be told by O'Neil that the capture was part of a [[Batman Gambit]], so SG-1 could meet up with [[The Mole]] in the enemy's ranks.}}
** Averted in the finale of season one, when {{spoiler|Daniel was left behind on Apophis' soon-to-be-destroyed ship.}} The implication, however, was that {{spoiler|he}} wasn't going to survive anyway (being severely injured), and the other characters probably wouldn't, either, if they didn't avert this trope. The irony was that {{spoiler|if Daniel ''hadn't'' been left behind, he probably ''would'' have died anyway: he used the sarcophagus and the Gate to heal himself and get home (respectively). It's implied that they wouldn't have been able to save him on Earth.}}
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* ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "The Galileo Seven". During an attack by aliens Spock is pinned by a boulder. He orders the other Enterprise crewmen to go back to the shuttlecraft and lift off. They refuse and manage to free him, getting everyone to the shuttle safely. While the delay means they have to use the shuttlecraft's boosters to escape, apparently dooming it to be destroyed in re-entry, Spock is the one who comes up with the lifesaving bright idea that enables them to be rescued.
* In their first few appearances on ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', the Borg would collect pieces of their fallen comrades who had been killed, like picking up a black box, and allow the rest of the body to self-destruct.
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== Web Original ==
* Played with in ''[[Open Blue]]'''s [[Backstory]], where [[Four
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* The 1953 American attempt to summit K2, the second highest mountain and arguably the most difficult in the world, was frustrated by weather and mountain sickness. The eight man team attempted to carry one of their number off the mountain, a nearly impossible feat at that altitude. Then a near disastrous accident left everybody shaken and/or injured. The team decided to camp to recover and consider their options leaving their injured companion, Art Gilkey, secured in his litter to the mountain face but when they came to fetch him he had been swept away, litter and all, by an avalanch he might well have deliberately called down upon himself in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save his comrades.
* Hideaki Akaiwa was at work on March 11th, 2011 when the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami hit his city of Ishinomaki, Japan. His wife of twenty years was trapped in their home under the waves, and rescue workers could not get to her. Rather than just give in to fate, Hideaki somehow managed to get a SCUBA kit and dove into the raging waters of the tsunami to rescue her. Navigating through the waters and dodging numerous obstacles including cars, downed power lines and ''houses'' getting swept away in the current, he managed to find his home and his wife. She was alive, and thanks to Hideaki was rescued. This alone is impressive, but when his mother was declared missing, he did it ''again'' and saved her. And for the duration of the disaster, he went out on his bicycle alone with a folding knife, a few bottles of water, his SCUBA gear and gave help wherever he could. He was named [[Badass of the Week]] for that.
* Medal of Honor recipient Roy P. Benavidez rescued thirteen men from a ''battalion'' of North Vietnamese soldiers, including running over to a downed Huey helicopter and physically carrying the crew to another helicopter, and directing airstrikes while his eyes were ''blinded with the blood pouring into them.'' Did I mention he was only carrying a knife? He received thirty-seven wounds from bullets, bayonets and grenade blasts in the process, his guts were hanging out, and was placed in a body bag after the battle, and had the strength to spit in the doctor's face when declared a goner. '''He lived.''' Here is a condensed summary of the story: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lHkrqlT62o video], and here is the Medal of Honor [
* During the Winter War and Continuation War, the Finnish army made a point of this. Turns out it worked really well to scare your opponents. The Finns usually collected their dead during the night. Thus when morning came and the Russians surveyed the battlefield all they found were their own dead soldiers. Not knowing whether you actually killed any of your enemies plays merry hell on ther morale.
** Of course, the alternative to the Russian not hitting any [[F Inns]] is that they simply return to life when it got cold enough... Knife-wielding sniper-zombies? Count me out.
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