Published: Apr 07, 2026, 08:15 IST | Updated: Apr 07, 2026, 08:15 IST
As the US-Iran war intensifies, attention has turned to the elite survival skills that helped a downed American airman stay alive behind enemy lines. The U.S. military trains its pilots under the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) program—one of the world’s most demanding survival training systems.