{"id":847497,"date":"2026-09-14T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847497\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:16:09","slug":"us-air-force-colonel-shot-down-over-iran-recounts-modern-day-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847497\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force colonel shot down over Iran recounts &#8216;modern-day miracle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/air-force-colonel-shot-down-over-iran-reveals-desperate-prayer-50-hour-fight-survive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Air Force colonel shot down<\/a> over Iran survived a terrifying fall, three broken bones and a two-day enemy manhunt after turning to God as his damaged parachute sent him plunging toward the desert.<\/p>\n<p>The colonel, identified only by his mission call sign &#8220;Bravo,&#8221; revealed in a new interview with CBS News\u2019 &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; how a desperate prayer began an extraordinary 50-hour fight to make it home alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At one point when I looked up and saw no parachute, that was the most terrifying thing I\u2019ve ever seen,&#8221; Bravo said in his first public account of the April ordeal. &#8220;So I paused, right then, and I prayed, \u2018Lord, your will be done. But if I\u2019m getting through this, I need help.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The colonel was the weapons systems officer seated behind the pilot of an F-15E Strike Eagle operating under the call sign Dude 44 when an Iranian shoulder-fired missile struck the aircraft April 2, according to CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>The two-man crew had been assigned to attack industrial facilities tied to Iran\u2019s drone and missile program near a mountainous region south of Isfahan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6404817339112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Central Command<\/a> leader Adm. Brad Cooper told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had air superiority, but clearly we weren\u2019t flying over Kansas,&#8221; Cooper said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Air Force colonel shot down over Iran survived a terrifying fall, three broken bones and a two-day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,4,27304,829,2413,3,21,19,22,20,25,24,965],"class_list":["post-847497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-news","tag-latest-news","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847497","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=847497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}