An Air Force officer who survived behind enemy lines for two days in Iran after his F-15E fighter jet was shot down said he hit the ground hard after the shoulder-fired missile that struck his Strike Eagle also shredded part of his parachute.
Severely wounded and stranded in hostile territory, the downed airman was forced to rely on survival training for one of the military’s worst-case scenarios.
In an interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes , the weapons systems officer, identified only by his call sign, Bravo, described surviving a nearly catastrophic fall, scaling a towering ridgeline despite broken bones, and evading Iranian forces for days…
