CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Monday that Iran was “embarrassed and ultimately humiliated” by the daring rescue mission of a downed U.S. Air Force officer from behind enemy lines on Sunday.
Thursday night, the Iranians shot down an F15-E fighter jet in a mountainous southwest region of their country.
The pilot and his weapons systems officers ejected from the plane. The pilot was recovered that day, but the rescuers could not reach the WSO, code-named “Dude Bravo 44,” who was “injured quite seriously,” the New York Post reported.
The Air Force colonel employed his Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training and, though injured, made his way up a mountainside, avoiding capture for over 48 hours.
“At the president’s direction, we deployed both human assets and exquisite technologies that no other intelligence service in the world possesses to a daunting challenge comparable to hunting for a single grain of sand
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