"Hambleton had Top Secret access to Strategic Air Command operations and was an expert in surface-to-air missile...
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"Hambleton had Top Secret access to Strategic Air Command operations and was an expert in surface-to-air missile countermeasures. The North Vietnamese Army may have possessed information about his presence in Vietnam and his capture would have meant a huge intelligence bonanza for the Soviet Union." Doesn't sound like he was that expendable, which raises the question of why he was on the mission in the first place.
exactly. If he was on a flight in the first place that could get shot down with almost all hands then his system did not find him indisposible, the value in him was if the other side captured him, if it was a new anti-AA electronics module they’d have no problem airstriking to scuttle it!