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Posted on 04/03/2026 10:46:43 AM PDT by DFG
An American fighter pilot has been rescued by US forces after being shot down behind enemy lines, two US officials have confirmed.
A second crew member remains missing after an American F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over Southern Iran, CBS News reported.
Donald Trump has been briefed on the rescue mission, the White House confirmed.
It comes as Iranian state media urged civilians to capture the pilots, with a 'reward' offered by the Islamic regime.
Footage has emerged of tribesman shooting at what appears to be an Air Force HC-130J Combat King II, a specialized search and rescue plane.
Separate videos purported to show a US KC-130 refueling tanker and two HH-60 Pave Hawk search and rescue helicopters.
Iranian media released images showing debris as well as ejector seats from the downed F-15E, which costs approximately $100 million.
It marks the first time a US jet has been downed by enemy fire since the start of the war.
An anchor on Iranian state media urged local residents in Southern Iran to hunt down and hand over the 'enemy pilot' to regime authorities.
The local TV channel is based in Kohkilouyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, an intensely rural and mountainous region, the Associated Press reported.
Viewers were also told to 'shoot them if you see them,' referring to US aircrafts flying low in the region in an apparent search for the crew members.
The regime has previously made a series of false claims about shooting down piloted US planes.
However, Friday was the first time state media has called on the public to look for the suspected American pilots.
If the regime did successfully shoot down a fighter jet, it would mark a major escalation in the war.
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Liberals saddened
Bring in a C-130 gunship. Problem solved.
“We will be greeted as liberators”.
I guess the Iranians are not going to rise up in favor of a pro-Western gov’t, after all.
It doesn’t look like some of the locals there are ready to rise up and overthrow the IRGC.
Especially after we started bomb their city bridges and threatened to bomb their water supply and electric plants.
Dude just made himself a legitimate target.
Yep, A10 target practice!
When they said they would welcome us with open arms, they did not consider that would be wrapped around an AK 47.
“Especially after we started bomb their city bridges and threatened to bomb their water supply and electric plants.”
The big mistake was we didn’t do so in 1981. Back to the 7th century where they belong.
Lol... What it would actually 'mark' is this... Some Iranian got off a lucky shot and even a blind squirrel can find a nut every now and then.
The MSM cheering on this despot Iranian regime is really becoming somewhat nauseating.
On news shows they said the Iranians are highly educated and wish for liberation from the theocrat tyrants.
So how do they have “tribesmen”?
Sounds primitive.
Yep, even more infuriating that Obama funded their military by sending billions in cash there!
Never can forget the movie scene in Flight of the Intruder where one lucky shot by a peasant on the ground with a rifle kills the copilot of the US jet passing by.
“it would mark a major escalation in the war.”
Every MSM report ends in this sentence.
You still have "tribesman".
True. They want the US and Israel to lose.
Lowlifes.
Our media is incredibly stupid!
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