A US Air Force F-15E Pilot Was Shot Down Twice in 30 Days: First by a Kuwaiti Fighter, Then by an Iranian Missile Deep Inside Iran

An F-15E Strike Eagle pilot was shot down over Kuwait in the opening days of Operation Epic Fury by a Kuwaiti fighter in what CENTCOM called a friendly fire incident. He passed his medical and psychological evaluations, returned to combat, and on April 3 - just over thirty days later - was hit by an Iranian surface-to-air missile deep in hostile territory and ejected a second time.