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Hide, Find Water: Ex-Airmen Detail How to Survive Being Shot Down
A retired general said downed crews should conceal themselves, find water and use survival gear while search teams work to recover them.
- On April 3, a US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle crashed in southwestern Iran, with American forces racing against time to locate the missing crew.
- Retired Air Force Brigadier General Houston Cantwell of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies explained that pilots undergo specific training known as SERE—survival, evasion, resistance, and escape—before parachuting into enemy territory.
- "Your best view of where you may want to go or where you may want to avoid is while you're coming down in your parachute," Cantwell said, adding that concealment becomes the primary priority to avoid capture.
- Combat Search and Rescue teams remain on alert to retrieve downed airmen, including experts like Fales, a pararescue jumper who played a key role in the 1993 "Black Hawk Down" incident in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- Survivors must rely on basic equipment including water, communication radios, and nighttime movement to increase rescue odds, Cantwell noted, describing the jarring shift from flying 500 miles an hour to ground survival.
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"What you're looking for to do is to avoid being captured by the enemy as long as possible," and thus hide, until a potential rescue.
·Paris, France
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A former U.S. Air Force pilot tells of how to survive once parachuted into enemy territory, while an American soldier is still wanted this Saturday after his plane was shot down over Iran.
Hide, find water: U.S. ex-pilot details how to survive being shot down
As American forces race against time and Iran’s military to locate a missing fighter jet crew reportedly shot down Friday, a retired Air Force general told AFP what it takes to hide and survive if parachuted into enemy territory.
·Canada
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Hide, find water: an ex-pilot tells how to survive once his plane is shot down.
·Montreal, Canada
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