Pentagon confirms sensitive material left behind during rescue operation.
Basij militiamen have been reported by Iranian media sifting through the wreckage of the American aircraft - methodically and patiently combing through what remained.
Not weapons. Not avionics. Something far more sensitive.
From the debris, they recovered something red, white, and blue and unmistakably American.
Reverse engineering has begun.
According to two senior Special Operations officials:
"We had air superiority. We had technological superiority. We had total operational control. But we may have just lost textile superiority." 🇺🇸
Erm, STS and DEVGRU are the same thing, Jack.