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The Military Vault on Instagram: "On May 2, 1999, during NATO’s Operation Allied Force against Serbian forces in the Kosovo War, a U.S. Air Force F-16CG Fighting Falcon was shot down over western Serbia by a Serbian S-125 (SA-3 “Goa”) surface-to-air missile, forcing its pilot, then-Lieutenant Colonel David L. Goldfein—commander of the 555th Fighter Squadron—to eject safely behind enemy lines; after landing, he evaded capture and was rescued by a U.S. combat search-and-rescue team, later rising t