The "Ghost" Signal: The Tiny Device That Saved a US Navigator Deep in Iran

An American F-15E navigator has been successfully rescued from deep within Iran after using a specialized satellite device to transmit encrypted location data while hiding from enemy forces for two days. In what military officials are calling one of the most complex recovery missions in modern history, an American F-15E navigator was successfully extracted from Iranian territory this past Sunday. The airman had been hiding in hostile terrain for forty-eight hours after his aircraft was downed on Friday over southwestern Iran. The success of the daring operation is being credited to a specialized survival doctrine known as Combat Search and...