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It's unbelievable. No Man Left Behind is not a motto for the United States. It's a thing we do. It's a promise.
And America kept that promise, which is why we are awesome. But on a pure military level, we are dominating them. Anyone who is telling you differently is just lying to you. We have currently flown some 12,000 sorties.
Until Friday, they had shot down zero American planes. Well, apparently, on Friday, they shot down two American planes, an A-10 Warthog, which is a relatively low-flying plane. And the F-15E, which was shot down apparently by a shoulder-fired rocket. If we had not rescued that weapons system officer, if instead he'd been captured by the IRGC or its minions, because the IRGC was hunting all over the hills of Iran for this guy, they'd put out a bounty on a set of some $60,000, which in Iranian dollars is legitimately a bajillion reals.
Well, if the IRGC had gotten hold of Americans, that would have become leverage for the IRGC in the same exact way the hostages were leverage for Hamas. In fact, they did this during Barack Obama administration when they came into conflict with a small American vessel, and then they proceeded to take pictures of Americans on their knees with their hands behind their head. Well, we are currently in a hot war with Iranians. So, almost certainly, the Iranians would have used his actual life to split the American public.
They almost undoubtedly would have threatened to execute him publicly unless the war ended on their terms. We moved hundreds, if not thousands of troops into enemy theater, built a small air script overnight, misdirected thousands of enemy troops and operatives, and then we extracted one American under fire more than a day after he originally dropped into Iran after his plane was hit. America kicks absolute ass. According to the New York Times, both Air Force officers were deep in hostile territory on Friday morning, alone and armed only, with pistol.
The plane's pilot was in constant communication with his unit, who was rescued almost immediately about six hours later, by a force that included attack planes and helicopters under heavy fire. Apparently, he was concussed. In the immediate aftermath, he was unconscious. He woke up.
He sent a signal. And then he proceeded to hike up a 7,000-foot ridgeline, and then wedge himself into a crevice to hide from Iranian operatives. The CIA developed a deception plan to try to buy some time. They spread word in Iran that the airman had already been found and was already moving out of the country.
And the hope was that the Iranians would redirect their resources from the base of the mountain where he actually was hiding to the roads out of the region to try to stop any sort of exit mission. And according to the times, the CIA operation worked. U.S. military officials, meanwhile, were preparing a vast, complex rescue mission involving a hundred special operations forces led by elements of SEAL Team 6.
Delta Force commanders and army rangers were on standby if needed. The Wall Street Journal reports that troops led by CENTCOM brought a devastating array of firepower to keep the enemy at bay. They brought four B-1 bombers, dropped nearly 102,000-pound satellite-guided bombs, according to two U.S. officials.
MQ-9 Reaper drones also struck suspected fighters as they approached within kilometers of the aviator's hiding site. After dark, senior military officials waited, and then they launched. Special operations helicopters loaded with commandos raced to the remote mountain site where he was waiting. A senior U.S.
official says this is the most challenging and complex operation in the history of special operations because they had to do this in the mountains. They had to assume the Iranian forces would rush to attack them, and they didn't know how healthy or unhealthy the weapons systems officer was. As the commandos apparently landed on the objective, according to the New York Times, U.S. and Israeli warplanes had dropped bombs, whose bright orange glass lit up the silhouettes of the surrounding mountains.
So the wounded airman was then rushed to a helicopter and whisked him off to this jerry-rigged airstrip inside Iran. Special operations forces had built this kind of tiny airstrip in the middle of Iran for possible rescues or other contingencies, and the plan was to load him and all the rescue force onto two C-130 aircraft to get them out of danger and out to Kuwait. But, final twist of fate, it turns out the nose gear of at least one and possibly both of those planes got stuck in the sandy dirt at the airstrip. Three smaller planes then landed, carrying specialized teams, and they made their way to the remote staging area.
And, according to the New York Times, the commandos and the injured weapons system operator were reloaded. Not to three newly arrived replaced in aircraft. After the rescue team left, American warplanes bombed the two disabled planes rather than letting them fall into Iranian hands. So there went two of our some 600 C-130s.
So we blew those up, and the Iranians immediately took footage of this and said, Look what we did! Look what we were capable of! Okay, let me explain how dominant U.S. military is.
We lost one person, one, in Iran. And we mobilized a hundred special operators, massive military wherewithal, landed in your territory, found our guy, got out with zero casualties, and blew up our own planes just because they were stuck in the sand. That's how dominant we are. It actually takes some guts to do what the United States just did, putting many men at risk in order to save one.
And again, it's not possible to script a story this insane and also inspirational. This pilot, this plane, they were shot down on Good Friday. Saturday is when the search was going on. It was late Saturday night, moving into Easter morning, when the actual rescue took place.
And apparently, according to Axios, President Trump said the weapons system officer gave a short, unusual message over his radio after ejecting it from the aircraft to say, Power be to God. A U.S. defense official confirmed it in Trump's account, but said the exact phrase was God is good. But people who know the officer say that he was a religious person and it made sense for him to say that.
Shot down on a Friday, Good Friday, hidden in a cave, a crevice, all of Saturday, and rescued on Sunday. Flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday. A pilot reborn, all home and accounted for, a nation rejoicing. God is good.
And the defense official confirmed that it counts. It was not completely clear early on. We stuck with it and verified he was alive and not captured. And those who knew him said he was religious, one of the ways they were able to identify who it was that was talking is because he said God is good.
Which is just crazy and super American and wonderful in every way. If this whole story doesn't make you want to pick up an American flag and start waving it, I don't know what's wrong with you. I don't know what's wrong with you.