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Ex-US airmen detail how to survive behind enemy lines
Hindustan Times Thane
|April 05, 2026
As US forces race against time and Iran to locate an aviator shot down Friday, a former Air Force pilot and a rescuer explained what it takes to hide, survive and extract someone behind enemy lines.
A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II, similar to one that crashed.
(AFP)
“You're like, ‘Oh my God, I was in a fighter jet two minutes ago, flying 500 miles an hour, and a missile just exploded, literally 15 feet from your head,” said retired brigadier general Houston Cantwell, who is now at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
That said, a pilot's training — known as survival, evasion, resistance and escape (SERE) — would likely kick in before he or she parachutes to the ground.
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