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Posted on 04/05/2026 4:28:24 AM PDT by V_TWIN
The pilot and the members of the rescue team who extracted him from behind enemy lines in Iran are all safely out of Iran.
The Weapons Systems Officer ejected along with the pilot when their F15E Strike Eagle they were flying was struck Thursday night (early Friday local time) in southwest Iran.
The WSO used the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) training to evade capture, hiding on an elevated ridge after hiking away from the wreckage and putting out an emergency beacon.) US Special Operations rescue forces to include PJs (United States Air Force Pararescuemen (PJs) and many layers of elite rescue forces took part in the complex, layered mission to both find the crew member and also keep the Iranian forces who were hunting the American weapons system operator at bay.
There are videos that have appeared from local eyewitnesses that show what appear to have been injured and dead Iranian members of the IRGC and Basij who were looking for the downed American crew member.
Fox has learned there was fighting on the ground but no Americans killed during the operation. “It was a very complex operation to retrieve the downed service member,” a well placed source briefed on the operation told me. Many different branches of the US military were involved in the rescue.
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Amazing news! Glad the WSO is finally rescued and everyone involved make it safely back to base!
Awesome!!! What an amazing op!
SERE training is complex and thorough.
I had hopes it was working for him.
Good news for this most hopeful of days.
“Iranian Terrorists”
Regular army units might have been participating in the hunt.
Some reports state we had to abandon and destroy 2 C130s that were stuck in the mud of a hastily selected forward airbase. Sad as that is, it shows the great mission planning allowing the mission to continue and retrieve all souls after losing that much transport capacity.
Respect!
Fly old helicopters into Iran under remote control, crash them, and have drones pick off people looking for US airmen.
Thanks for the link. Not much in the way of video so far.
How much mud is there in a desert?
The NYTimes will be gnashing its teeth. They were looking forward to a hostage situation. Drat.
So I wonder if this means there is internet service now.....
Great news of the rescue ! !
The new memo will be it never should have happened, the US military is incompetent and the Sec. of War must be removed immediately.
Wait and see.....it’ll happen.
This is an excellent idea.
Thank God!
They’re all potential terrorists.
All one needs is a drone with a helicopter radio signal to land and broadcast the signal.
Yea leftists praying for the terrorists to drag a pilot through the streets on a chain and then propagandize his for the next 4 years.
THANK YOU JESUS!
Its what cowed Carter.
Seeing his rescue force shot up.
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