American pilot who was shot down in Iraq in 2003 and became a propaganda plaything: “You can’t imagine what happens to you”

An American pilot is hiding somewhere in Iran, in a race against time to find him first. Can he be saved like the other pilot of the crashed F-15? Or will it end up in the hands of Iran? Former helicopter pilot Ronald Young Jr. (49) knows very well how the soldier must feel. He was captured in 2003 when his Apache helicopter was shot down in Iraq. “Nothing can match the situation in which you are suddenly shot,” he reflects to ‘The New York Times’. “You just want to stay alive.”

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