U.S. military pulls off daring rescue of downed airman deep inside Iranian mountains

A seriously wounded American colonel is safe after U.S. special operations forces extracted him from deep inside Iran's mountains, nearly 48 hours after his F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down. The rescue required hundreds of troops, a CIA-orchestrated deception campaign, MQ9 Reaper drones, B-1 bombers, and every tactical jet in the American inventory to keep [] The post U.S.