Air Force F-15E aircrews are usually junior or mid-grade officers, such as first lieutenant, captain or major. So why was a colonel in the back seat of the fighter jet shot down over Iran last week?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US officials championed the rescue of a crew member whose fighter jet was downed in Iran, but analysts said the episode ...

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How does someone — even a military hero with prodigious physical prowess and training — manage to survive approximately 36 to 48 hours in the mountainous terrain of southwestern Iran, likely without ...

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“Seriously wounded" and "really brave” is how US President Donald Trump described the American airman rescued from Iran on Sunday, two days after an F-15E fighter jet of the US military was shot down ...

The U.S. Air Force colonel, badly injured after his F-15E was shot down in southern Iran, climbed some 7,000 feet up a ridgeline armed with a handgun. Iranian forces had launched a massive manhunt, as ...

From the moment the jet was shot down to the final extraction under fire, the rescue of the stranded colonel was a race against time in one of the world’s most hostile environments. The operation ...

The US Air Force colonel who was shot down over Iran and rescued after 36 hours sent a suspicious three-word message that initially sparked fears among American forces that they were being lured into ...

When a US F-15E fighter jet was shot down on Friday, the race was on to find the two aircrew who ejected in a remote area over Iran’s mountainous southwestern Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province. The ...