Posted on 04/05/2026 10:58:24 PM PDT by Vendome
Here are remarkable new details about the rescue, according to Axios:
- The rescued crew member is religious.
- The crew member survived more than 24 hours in the mountains while wounded.
- 200 soldiers from special operations units participated in the rescue.
- The F-15 was shot down with a shoulder-fired missile.
- “Thousands of these savages were hunting him down,” Trump said.
- The officer hid in a crevice in the mountain and was found thanks to U.S. technology.
- The officer said “God is good” after ejecting.
- “The two crew members were spread apart by a couple miles. Hundreds of IRGC soldiers were everywhere,” a defense official said.
“The C.I.A. initiated a deception campaign to try to confuse Iranian forces, and convince them the airman had already been rescued and was moving out of the country in a ground convoy,” the NYT reported.
The airman reportedly evaded Iranian forces by hiking up a 7,000-foot ridgeline.
“U.S. attack aircraft dropped bombs and opened fire on Iranian convoys to keep them away from the area where the airman was hiding,” the NYT continued.
“In a final twist after the weapons officer was rescued, two transport planes that would carry the commandos and the airmen to safety got stuck at a remote base in Iran.”
“Commanders decided to fly in three new planes to extract all the U.S. military personnel and the airman, and they blew up the two disabled planes rather than have them fall into Iranian hands.”
https://x.com/i/status/2040873134338007422
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That was badass.
I appreciate you.
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You have to think out of the box to pull off sh** like this. These guys were awesome. Hope the rescued dude is doing well.
Badassry
Love the title. God bless him and all our troops
“comprehend and see that the Lord is good” (Ps. 34:9
‘To SEAL Team and the CIA.’
I know the SEALS like to take credit (and they are bad-@$$ heroes, so no shade to them), but I think a lot of credit goes to the PJs and the 160th SOAR.
The PJs and the pilots of SOAR are amongst the best the US has. True life Captain America’s in every sense of the word, doing things that all of us could scarcely imagine.
I am sure there are elements of CAG (Delta)/RRC/DEVGRU embedded with the PJs, but when it comes to CSAR there will always be a PJ element. Some sources also claim the Israel Sayaret Markel and/or Shaldag was involved, but that is not yet 100% clear.
Great work by the CIA in coming up with diversionary tactics.
All in all; amazing work by the US SpecOps teams. True heroes in every sense of the word.
Sayaret Martel = Sayaret Matkal.
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Going to make a great action movie...
Of course, Hollywood will not make it...
The whole thing does not fit the approved philosophy...
Envy and jealousy from the Iranian side:
https://x.com/__Injaneb96/status/2040794764698657149
Praise the Lord for the
rescue of our people!!
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