EPISODE · Apr 6, 2026 · 10 MIN
what the military did to rescue the pilot was a miracle.
from The Charlie James Show Podcast
The U.S. military's rescue of a downed F-15E airman from the rugged Zagros Mountains in Iran has been hailed as an Easter Miracle following a high-stakes, 36-hour operation. Despite being injured, the airman managed to climb 7,000 feet while evading enemy forces before being extracted by elite Navy SEAL Team 6 and Special Forces commandos. The mission, which involved over 170 aircraft and intense coordination with the CIA, successfully brought both crew members home without any U.S. casualties, even as rescue helicopters came under heavy fire and equipment was destroyed to prevent capture.
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00:00 Alright, let's go to the WRD Talk line. We'll talk to Dean in Cashville. How you doing, Dean? Not bad, not bad. 00:11 in his book argo tony nate that the new thing that let tony nate was talking about operation people call the book came out in twenty thirty there are a lot dot he did not like it yeah he said even in twenty thirty this guy had done during the second world war 00:41 Yeah. oh Yeah. We don't know about and we are not supposed to know about. And there the story is a lot deeper. example, there are videos online of people in Iran blocking the streets so they could not find search for the pilot. Charlie, thank you so much for what you do. 01:09 Well, I appreciate it, Dean. Thank you very much. I want to thank the men and women of our military because what they do is actually amazing. What they were able to do um 01:24 over the weekend was just nothing short of miraculous. Now, did it have a couple of hiccups? Yep. But guess what? Every single military operation has a hiccup and they've got contingencies. And because of that, we were able to get this guy out. We go in with, oh, and there's this French guy. I don't even know his name. He's got a ridiculous last name like... 01:50 Hello, my name is Jean-Claude 01:56 So this guy says, he literally said this. So he had a picture of, think it was two C-130s and F-15. 02:10 No, no. Two C-130s, a warthog, and an Apache helicopter. And he went on AI and had the picture generated. But they were lined up side by side. And this Frenchie said, 02:30 All of this for the life of one soldier? Question mark, question mark. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. 02:41 That's why France never met a war that they didn't want to surrender to immediately. 02:47 That's why. what happened? What happened to the French Foreign Legion? happened? Oh, just say, hey, what comes in French Foreign Legion? We are so tough and we are so... No, you're not. You're not. You're not. You're a bunch of frilly wasted cowards. 03:02 We don't do, that's what distinguishes us from every other country. We don't leave them behind. At least we don't. We don't leave them behind. Do you remember when Joe Biden, do you remember what Joe Biden did? Joe Biden left those astronauts up in space. Yeah, you guys gotta be there for another seven months. Seven months? What are you kidding me? 03:29 Joe Biden left them in space. Elon Musk sends a rocket up, brings them home. 03:37 Joe Biden left military equipment all over Afghanistan. We, when we bring men home, we bring them home. When we leave equipment, we blow it up. Speaking of blowing up, tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, things might get real bright and real loud over in Afghanistan. We have a plan because of the power of our military where every bridge 04:07 in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be used again. I mean, complete demolition by 12 o'clock. And it'll happen over a period of four hours if we want it to. We don't want that to happen. We may even get involved with helping them rebuild their nation. 04:34 And you know what? If that's the case, the last thing we want to do is start with power plants, which are among the most expensive thing and bridges. You saw the bridge, the bridge one. We were very close to a deal. And then I got a call from Mr. Witkoff, Mr. Kushner and JD saying, I think they're breaking the deal. I said, tell them that's OK. Don't worry about it. But tell them to look out their window and watch. And within 05:03 45 minutes I gave the order to knock out the biggest bridge. I gave the order to knock out the biggest bridge in, I believe the Middle East, but the biggest bridge in Iran. And within 10 minutes after I gave that order, that bridge was over. So, yeah, yeah, you're right. Did you know this, that during the rescue of our airmen, US B-1 bombers dropped nearly 100 05:33 2,000 poun ...
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