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 Iranian forces at bay while operators closed in on their man.
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