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When the F-15 went down over Iran, the mission shifted in an instant from airpower to survival. One co-pilot was quickly recovered, but the other vanished into hostile mountains as Iranian forces and civilians were reportedly offered rewards to hunt him down. Hidden in a rocky crevice with only a handgun, he finally broke radio silence with a phrase that sounded, to those listening in Washington, like a devout Muslim\u2019s prayer. That brief transmission sparked a terrifying possibility: what if Iran was spoofing the signal, baiting US forces into a deadly rescue trap?<\/p>\n

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While intelligence teams dissected every \u201cbeep\u201d of tracking data, others reminded Trump the missing colonel was himself deeply religious. In the end, technology, persistence, and a razor-thin margin of time led US special operators to the real man, not a decoy. Pulled out alive and flown to Kuwait, his survival became less a story about politics than about fear, faith, and the split-second doubts that haunt every life-or-death decision in war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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