AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — Iran shot down a United States F-15 fighter jet today, sparking a rescue mission to find one of the two crew members who remains missing.
The incident highlights specialized survival training that military personnel receive for these situations. SERE training — Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape — prepares service members who find themselves behind enemy lines.
“How do I get rescued? How do I get back into U.S. hands? And so there is intensive training that nobody wants to go through, but it prepares them,” said Cal Coblentz, a retired Air Force SERE specialist…