KG, I can't remember if it was anything else. Prairie Fire was a code phrase that an American recce team was in serious trouble. I don't think it was restricted to ops in a certain country. If you made a Prairie Fire call on the Guard radio frequency as a FAC, you essentially took control of every asset in SEA. That's how seriously we took saving those teams.
By 1971, our mission didn't use US GIs on the ground, and we never called in outside forces when a team went hot. Our rescue/extraction efforts were all done "in house" because Nixon adamantly denied we were doing what we were doing. In essence, we protected Nixon more than our teams.
