36 Facts About Rick Rescorla

Richard Cyril Rescorla was a British-American soldier, police officer, educator and private security specialist.

Rick Rescorla served as a British Army paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a commissioned officer in the United States Army during the Vietnam War.

Rick Rescorla rose to the rank of colonel in the Army before entering the private sector, where he worked in corporate security.

Rick Rescorla died during the attacks of September 11,2001, going back to help evacuate more people in the South Tower after he had organized the evacuation of the Morgan Stanley offices.

Rick Rescorla was born in Hayle, Cornwall, on May 27,1939.

Rick Rescorla grew up there with his grandparents and his mother, who worked as a housekeeper and companion to the elderly.

Rick Rescorla was a natural sportsman, setting a school record in the shot put, and was an avid boxer.

Rick Rescorla said "I'm for Tammy" [sic] and after Mauriello won the fight, everyone in Hayle knew him as "Tammy".

In 1956, at age 16, Rick Rescorla left Hayle to join the army.

Rick Rescorla enlisted in the British Army in 1957, training as a paratrooper with the Parachute Regiment and then serving with an intelligence unit in Cyprus during the EOKA Cypriot insurgency from 1957 to 1960.

Rick Rescorla was awarded the General Service Medal with clasp Cyprus.

Rick Rescorla later moved to the United States after being unable to settle down in London, being interested in fighting instead.

Rick Rescorla was sent to Vietnam, where he served under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore.

Rick Rescorla's men nicknamed him "Hard Core" for his bravery in battle and revered him for his good humor and compassion toward his men; Rick Rescorla jokingly called his platoon "Hard Corps".

Rick Rescorla is mentioned in the book Baptism by Larry Gwin who fought at Ia Drang.

The fourteenth chapter of the book, "Rick Rescorla's Game", describes him as the "Cornish Hawk".

Rick Rescorla left active duty in 1967 and reached the rank of colonel in the United States Army Reserve before retiring from the military in 1990.

Rick Rescorla then moved to South Carolina, where he taught criminal justice at the University of South Carolina for three years and published a textbook on the subject.

Rick Rescorla concluded that the attack was likely planned by a radical imam at a mosque in New York or New Jersey.

Rick Rescorla gained credibility and authority after the bombing, which resulted in a change to the culture of Morgan Stanley.

Rick Rescorla wanted the company out of the building because he continued to feel, as did Hill, that the World Trade Center was still a target for terrorists and that the next attack could involve a plane crashing into one of the towers.

Rick Rescorla recommended to his superiors at Morgan Stanley that the company leave Manhattan office space, mentioning that labor costs were lower in New Jersey and that the firm's employees and equipment would be safer in a proposed four-story building.

Rick Rescorla timed employees with a stopwatch when they moved too slowly and lectured them on fire emergency basics.

Rick Rescorla heard the explosion and saw the tower burning from his office window in the 44th floor of the South Tower.

Rick Rescorla had boosted morale among his men in Vietnam by singing Cornish songs from his youth, and now he did the same in the stairwell, singing songs such as one based on the Welsh song "Men of Harlech":.

In 1994, Rick Rescorla was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent surgery to remove his prostate.

Rick Rescorla underwent treatment, which involved painful injections directly into his stomach every month and taking prescribed medications that dehydrated him and caused his body to swell.

In late July 1998, Rick Rescorla met his second wife, Susan Greer, while jogging near her Morristown, New Jersey, home.

Rick Rescorla was an assistant to a dean at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a twice-divorced mother of three daughters.

Rick Rescorla had been living in the area to be near his children after his divorce.

Rick Rescorla mentioned to Greer that he was writing a play, Mkubwa Junction, which was set in Northern Rhodesia and based on his time there.

Rick Rescorla was fond of the food and the culture of the Portuguese community in Newark, New Jersey, and was learning to speak Portuguese, in addition to Arabic.

Rick Rescorla was fascinated with the American West and was interested in experiencing the spiritual aspects of Amerindian culture.

Rick Rescorla was survived by his wife, Susan, his two children and his three stepdaughters by Susan.

Rick Rescorla had requested that he be cremated, and his ashes be strewn in Hayle.

Rick Rescorla was uncomfortable about being portrayed as a war hero.