00:00Meanwhile, the second crew member, a weapons system officer, highly respected colonel,
00:06had landed a significant distance away from the pilot when you're going at those speeds.
00:10Even if you go out two or three seconds later, it's miles. It's miles and miles away
00:17because you're going fast. He was injured quite badly and stranded in an area
00:23teeming with terrorists from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a rough group, as well as besieged militia and local authorities.
00:34Many, on top of everything else, they told the communities, actually, withinside of Iran, the people of Iran,
00:43they were given a tremendous incentive to find this pilot. Despite the peril, the officer followed his training
00:52and climbed into the treacherous mountain terrain and started climbing toward a higher altitude,
00:58something they were trained to do in order to evade capture. They want to always go as far away from
01:07the
01:07site of the shoot down. You want to go as far away because they all head right to that site.
01:14You want
01:14to be as far away as you can. And he was injured and he was an amazing, amazing thing.
01:21He scaled cliff faces, bleeding rather profusely, treated his own wounds and
01:28contacted American forces to transmit his location. They have a very sophisticated beeper type
01:38apparatus that is on them at all times. And when they when they go out on these missions,
01:44they make sure they have lots of battery space and they're in good shape.
01:49And this one worked really well. Amazingly saved his life. We immediately mobilized a massive
01:55operation to retrieve him from the mountain holdout. And he kept going higher and higher. The mountain
02:03kept getting rougher and rougher and really very, very hard to find. The second rescue mission involved 155
02:11aircraft, including four bombers, 64 fighters, 48 refueling tankers, 13 rescue aircraft and more.
02:20We were bringing them all over and a lot of it was subterfuge.
02:25We wanted to have them think he was in a different location because they had a vast military force out
02:31there. Thousands, thousands of people were looking. So we wanted them to look in different areas. So we
02:37were scattered all over like we were right on top of them. We had seven different locations where
02:44they thought and they were very confused. They said, well, wait a minute. They've got groups here.
02:48They've got groups there. It's amazing.
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