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'We Got Him!' President Trump Responds
As Second Airman Is Rescued From Enemy
Territory in Iran

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 4/5/2026 12:39:00 AM

Rumors have been flying for hours on social media that the second American pilot who ejected into enemy territory in Iran has been rescued by U.S. forces. Jennifer Griffin of Fox News, however, just reported Saturday night that it’s not Fake News: the happy development is apparently true://snip//President Trump responded minutes ago: FROM PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Member Officers, who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I am thrilled

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Reply 1 - Posted by: spinpilot 4/5/2026 12:54:06 AM (No. 2089054)
Thank you Lord!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Amanoftwistsandturns 4/5/2026 12:57:59 AM (No. 2089056)
My unit conducted the rescue of Captain Scott O’Grady in 1995 . That TRAP mission established the training procedures that made this rescue possible.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 4/5/2026 1:20:31 AM (No. 2089059)
Awesome job. Congratulations to the huge team the pulled together and got this officer out alive. I'll be visiting my USMC Colonel pilot relative next week. I'm sure there will be more info coming out, and that we'll be discussing this. I'll be interested in what he thinks about it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: CDR 4/5/2026 5:19:07 AM (No. 2089081)
Praise the Lord! Awesome job to our service personnel Happy Easter He has Risen !!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Heraclitus 4/5/2026 5:19:30 AM (No. 2089082)
Amen, #1! CHRIST is Risen! Those who were lost have been found! *** And our great military, who prepared to give the Last Full Measure, laying their lives on the line…as General Patton said on a Memorial Day, honoring the dead, also said, “We thank God that such men lived.” And we thank God for that and all His mercies.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: JHHolliday 4/5/2026 8:08:09 AM (No. 2089128)
We put our really 'bad boys' in to get him. Thank our Lord. What a nice Easter Day.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Strike3 4/5/2026 8:38:46 AM (No. 2089146)
Excellent work by some of the best military people in the world. They expect it from each other and they deliver. None of the incident, however, should have been publicized until both men were accounted for. It's always best to keep the enemy guessing. There is never any doubt about which side has the favor of the one and only God.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Ruhn 4/5/2026 9:04:03 AM (No. 2089157)
Praise God that the downed WSO was rescued and all CSAR and SOF personnel made it back deep inside ‘Indian country’. Now for the forensics: how did the F-15E and F-35 a week prior got shot down at this stage of the air campaign? Open source reporting indicates that the type of SAM employed was not of Iranian manufacture. Think about who is reliant on Iranian oil and whose tankers were allowed safe passage by the Iranians through SoH. Also think about who has been sending aircraft into Tehran. I’ll leave it at that.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Venturer 4/5/2026 9:07:01 AM (No. 2089159)
I never realized we had Colonel's riding the back seat of these planes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 4/5/2026 10:41:43 AM (No. 2089190)
Re #7, apparently some of the "information" that was released when he was still missing was disinformation to disrupt the Iranian efforts. Sometimes disinformation is a good thing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 4/5/2026 10:48:36 AM (No. 2089197)
re #8, no matter how much you suppress enemy air defenses, there is always risk of a MANPAD...man portable air defense missiles. These are shoulder fired, one person systems physically reminiscent of the old WW2 bazooka which often guide on heat emitted by engines, and thus give minimal warning to the pilot's on board missile warning equipment. This sort of thing can never be fully suppressed. And I am pretty sure that no F-35 was shot down. There was a report of a F-35 damaged by ground fire of undetermined type which made it back to base. Cannon type anti-aircraft systems are also difficult to completely eliminate, and every so often, a gunner gets lucky with visual guidance of the guns. In the first few weeks of the Desert Storm campaign we lost something like 40 aircraft shot down. IMO, our current number of damaged and shot down aircraft is at least 10 times lower, a huge improvement.
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