Don’t Give Up Hope On The Missing Airman

[BEZARK]

Remember it took a few days to get one out of Iraq.

[BEZARK]

One headline suggested  that he was known to be alive.

[Joan of quark]

There is a huge Iranian bounty out for bringing him in. So the nightmare is if he's captured and paraded in front of cameras. 

Then we're back to the '79 hostage crisis.

[Susiejoe]

Not the 79 hostage crisis.  It would be more like when the  Iranians caught some Navy seals trying to sneak into Iran via boat and made them apologize before world cameras.