A day later the injured deputies are lifted to area hospitals and State Police along with National Guardsmen are dispatched to find Rambo. David Kern, a State Policeman who knows Will, asks why Will didn't leave Rambo alone, and Will angrilly and disingenuously chews him out, claiming he was only doing his job in arresting Rambo; when Kern questions Will's motivation, Teasle barks for Kern to remember his injured deputies and the death of Art Gault.Eventually, the man who made John Rambo who he is, Colonel Samuel Trautman, arrives and offers to reason with John in the hope that he'll be able to cleanly retrieve him from the woods, after assuring the force that they have no chance of catching John, let alone killing him. Trautman succeeds in contacting John by radio and offers to fly him out in peace, but Rambo, who clearly sees in Trautman the father figure he'd never known before, reluctantly refuses, noting his enemies drew first blood. Teasle continues the hunt for John, ordering Guard troops to press into the forest; when they get a report that Rambo is heading away from the roads, Kern and Teasle are baffled until Trautman points out John is hunting for a gap in pursuers' lines.