What's happening right now inside Iran to find the missing pilot...
Somewhere in southern Iran, an American weapons systems officer is on the ground, trained to hide, survive, and wait.
Every fighter pilot prepares for this moment through a program called SERE: Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape.
They carry survival gear, specialized radios, and the training to use both.
The protocol: eject safely, find cover, go dark, transmit your location to friendlies, and stay hidden from everyone else.
A former CENTCOM commander said nightfall is an advantage because U.S. rescue teams own the dark.
Above, HH-60 Pave Hawks and HC-130s are running search patterns.
A-10s and fighters fly cover to suppress threats.
AWACS relay real-time airspace data to everyone involved.
The terrain could help.
Iran has vast remote areas with natural cover.
But food, water, injuries, and Iranian search parties are working against the clock.
No American troops are on the ground.
Everything depends on helicopters flying deep into hostile territory that just proved it can shoot down an F-15.
What is your theory? I don't have a dog in the hunt about this, but I was just wondering with 30 or more Bigfoot sightings every year how come no one ever bags one? That is the one thing that makes me doubt. I read the sightings which are full of tales of people fleeing in terror, but almost no one ever opens fire. What do you guys think?
