[driftdiver]

I helped pick up pieces of a F16 which had gone down in a rice paddy. They said the engine would be repaired and reused. The rest of the plane was just a little banged up. Surprisingly it didn’t burn that much with ample amounts of jet fuel still sitting around.

[Hulka]

In the USAF, jet engines are not returned to flight unless if is something like a bird-strike down the intake and repairs can be made. In a true mishap sequence this is not the case. There is a lot of damage to the engine that simply can't be seen in any viable way, even bore-scopes and other NDI means are not conclusive. So, I think you were told the engine would be repaired and returned to flight, but actually a crashed jet's engine returned to flight is not very likely.