Humiliated Boots.
The morning broke with news of a large-scale US operation to supposedly extract the second downed pilot from Iran, who had ejected from his shot-down F-15E on Thursday.
The morning broke with news of a large-scale US operation to supposedly extract the second downed pilot (WSO – Weapons Systems Officer) from Iran, who had ejected from his shot-down F-15E on Thursday. The scale of losses for this operation alone turned out to be massive, as the US lost hundreds of millions worth of planes allegedly getting the airman back to safety.
The operation involved all kinds of Special Forces units which amounted to “boots on ground” inside Iran for the first time—at least officially.