{"id":566606,"date":"2026-04-05T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566606\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:25:09","slug":"how-a-u-s-airman-shot-down-in-iran-was-rescued-from-a-mountain-crevice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566606\/","title":{"rendered":"How a U.S. Airman Shot Down in Iran Was Rescued From a Mountain Crevice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hiding in a mountain crevice<\/p>\n

According to accounts given by U.S. officials to various outlets<\/a>, the airman used his mandatory Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training to evade capture for a day and a half.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rescue operation involved hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel, as well as dozens of U.S. warplanes and helicopters.<\/p>\n

After the crash landing, the colonel hiked up a 7,000-foot mountain ridgeline and hid in a crevice. While evading capture, he activated an emergency beacon, which allowed U.S. forces to locate him, two U.S. officials told Fox News. <\/p>\n

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was at the center of the operation, launching a deception campaign to throw Iranian officials off, according to Axios<\/a>. It said CIA operatives spread a false campaign within Iran that both crew members of the downed F-15 jet had already been found and that U.S. forces were working on exfiltration, trying to confuse Iranian officials who were also working to capture the officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hiding in a mountain crevice According to accounts given by U.S. officials to various outlets, the airman used…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,801,4379,3,7688,18846,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-566606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-news-desk","14":"tag-u-s-military","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}