Over the past few days, US forces launched high-risk missions into Iran to rescue a downed Air Force pilot and a weapon systems officer. Combat search-and-rescue (CSAR) missions like the ones that the US military carried out to bring home the crew of an F-15 Strike Eagle shot down over hostile territory are inherently dangerous, risking the lives of many for even just one or two service members.
Saving downed airmen
The missions cost the US military a handful of aircraft, but the cost could have been much higher. As President Donald Trump said Monday, “we could have ended up with a hundred dead as opposed to one or two.” He said that “it’s a hard decision to make,” but in the US military, “we leave no American behind.” It is about boosting high morale of the force, says John Venable, a retired Air Force pilot and senior resident fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
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