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WE GOT HIM! That was President Trump’s message very early this Easter morning about our U.S. Air Force weapons system officer (WSO) who was rescued by Seal Team 6 after his F-15E jet was shot down deep in Iran.
An Air Force officer whose fighter jet had been shot down in Iran was rescued by U.S. Special Operations forces in a risky Saturday night mission that took commandos deep into enemy territory, President Trump said on social media early on Sunday.
The rescue followed a life-or-death race between U.S. and Iranian forces that stretched over two days to reach the injured airman, who is a weapons system officer, current and former U.S. officials said. In the end, Navy SEAL Team 6 commandos extracted the officer in a massive operation that involved hundreds of special operations troops and other military personnel.
There were no U.S. casualties among the rescue team, Mr. Trump said. All the commandos and the weapons officer returned safely, a senior U.S. military official said. Rescue planes flew the injured airman to Kuwait for medical treatment.
There are several outstanding things about this entire operation. First, it definitely involved the use of propaganda and major misdirection from the CIA and likely other intelligence assets. Which had Iranian forces (IRGCC) looking in the wrong direction for the WSO.
Secondly, he only had a pistol with him to defend himself. Keep in mind, this was 200 miles deep into Iran, and even though there were villagers hostile to the Iranian government, his life was definitely in danger.
The pilot and co-pilot were forced to bail out of the F-15E Strike Eagle, a two-seater plane, after it was shot down Friday over Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, near Iraq.
The search for the missing American unfolded as Trump — who stayed in Washington for the Easter weekend — warned Iran it would face “hell” if it didn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping by the president’s deadline.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed it shot down the high performance fighter, and the Iranian government dangled a $60,000 reward for the crew member’s capture – while urging local villagers to find them first.
That bounty is more than an Iranian family would make in ten years or more, so finding our Air Force officer was of the highest priority.
Leave No Man Behind
That mantra played out over this weekend. Even more so when you consider that the WSO was injured.
The unnamed officer hid out in the mountains and managed to climb a 7,000-foot ridge in order to evade capture while American MQ-9 Reaper drones pounded nearby Iranian forces with missiles if they got close to his position, according to reports.
“He evaded up a 7k ridge. They’ve been schwackin’ dudes chasing him all day. Was nuts,” a source told Toby Harnden, the veteran war correspondant and author.
He was injured, wasn’t sure if he could count on the villagers he came across while carrying only a pistol, and STILL managed to get himself UP a 7,000 foot mountain ridge to keep from being captured. Between that and the guys manning the drones who kept “schwackin’ (LOVE that word!) Iranian bad guys before they could get to him plus the CIA misdirection, thankfully it all came together!
From Abu Ali Express… simply brilliant detail:
— Mor Edge Insight (@MorEdge_Insight) April 5, 2026
“Details about the rescue operation according to American and Iranian media:
The American pilot hid on an elevated ridge in the mountainous and forested area where he landed. He moved on foot away from the point where he…
Read it all, the details regarding his evading capture and the rescue are a terrific read. And there’s more here.
We did, however, lose a couple of planes. The Daily Mail couldn’t help but whine that we almost lost a ton of American lives because ‘how dare we rescue ONE soldier??!!
However two transport planes and one helicopter became stuck in the mud and unable to take off, leaving more military personnel stranded behind enemy lines as Basij fighters closed in on their botched rescue site.
Three more transport planes were flown in to evacuate the downed airman and the rescue party, as they were evacuated under gunfire from the advancing Iranians.
Miraculously, the forces escaped unharmed in what is being hailed as the most daring US special operation in history.
As they left, the Americans were forced to ‘blow up’ their own stricken planes and helicopter, to prevent them falling into the hands of the Iranian military.
Guess what guys? It wasn’t “botched.” We have our guy back home as are the rest of the forces involved in the rescue effort.
A couple of folks have sent this along. As I was saying. https://t.co/nwDd20DmrH
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) April 5, 2026
They obviously do not get what Leave No Man Behind means. Moreover, unlike Joe Biden’s truly botched Afghanistan withdrawal, today’s military is taking ZERO chances that Iranian terrorists can get their hands on our military equipment.
As for those in the cheap seats who’ve been insisting that President Trump is either on death’s door, or he is working to kill our soldier instead of rescue him….
At the time of this post from DropSite (the Soros-funded pro-terror propaganda outlet) promoting a regime lie that we had abandoned our pilot and were trying to kill him, we were in the middle of a successful recovery operation.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 5, 2026
I hope this wakes people up to the fact that this… https://t.co/V1scSWI704
They, especially Joe Kent, can take all the damned seats. Joe was knowingly reposting IRANIAN propaganda as our own drones were “schwackin’ the ever loving crap out of Iranian terrorists in order to keep our WSO alive until rescue.
And I completely agree with this.
The phrase that comes to mind is, "America, Fuck Yeah." https://t.co/auhsJ6qrTX
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 5, 2026
Major congratulations to our Seal Team, rescue forces and pilots, the intelligence officers for their sneaky misdirections, our drone operators and everyone else involved.
Happy Easter and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Feature Photo Credit: fighter jets and American flag via iStock, cropped and modified
BlackwingOne says: I was going to ask, “How long will it be until the tin-foil-hatters claim that the whole thing was made up just to make Trump look good?”, but that’s already happened.
Having the collectivist/statist/authoritarians (the Dem-wing of the UniParty here in the US) claim that this was “botched”, or “a disaster” because the US places a couple of transport planes and an aging A-10 Warthog at a lower value than a Wizzo’s life is probably one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen their lame-stream and ‘net propaganda arm attempt to do in a long time.
I’ll reiterate what many people have already said: We don’t hate the Dem-wing and the media enough.
Wfjag says: How many of these people said anything about Biden abandoning tens of $Billions of operational weapons to the Taliban?
BlackwingOne says: Heck, according to some of the lists I’ve seen we only gave the Taliban terrorists four (4) Herky-birds.
Of course, given the typical goat-herders idea of “maintenance” we have no idea if any of them are still flyable. I saw footage of them “flying” a Blackhawk in ground effect a while ago, though.
Darleen Click says: After the FUBARs of Benghazi and Abbey Gate, the Democrats can sit down and STFU.
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