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On 2 May 1999, Pilot Lt. Col. David Goldfein’s F-16 fighter jets was shot down over western Serbia by an S-125 surface-to-air missile fired by the 3rd Battery of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Yugoslav Air Force. Staff Sgt. Jeremy Hardy, a pararescueman, and his fellow airmen …

On 2 May 1999, Pilot Lt. Col. David Goldfein’s F-16 was shot down over western Serbia by an S-125 surface-to-air missile fired by the 3rd Battery of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Yugoslav Air Force. Goldfein successfully ejected and was subsequently rescued by NATO helicopters. The F-16, …