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major concern of u.s. war planners. the topic was brought up at a senate armed services committee in september with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey. >> are the pilots dropping bombs in iraq a direct combat mission and will u.s. forces will prepared to provide combat search and rescue if a pilot gets shot down? are they put boots on the ground to make that rescue successful. >> yes. >> want to bring in barbara starr from the pentagon and our cnn national security analyst bob baer. barbara, we heard from the jordanian spokesman who told cnn it appears that the f-16 fighter jet was shot at from the ground. what are you sources telling you and why does it make a difference how this jet went down? >> su >> reporter: our sources are telling us they think at this point it is unlikely it was shot down.