Rescued!
HH-60 Pave Hawk
Trump announces press conference after rescue of ‘seriously wounded’ F-15E crew member
President Donald Trump says he and members of the military will hold a press conference at the White House on Monday after the successful rescue of the second F-15E crew member shot down over Iran.
Trump said the crew member, a colonel, is “seriously wounded,” but offered no further details about his injuries.
“We have rescued the seriously wounded, and really brave, F-15 Crew Member/Officer, from deep inside the mountains of Iran. The Iranian Military was looking hard, in big numbers, and getting close. He is a highly respected Colonel,” Trump wrote.
“This type of raid is seldom attempted because of the danger to ‘man and equipment.’ It just doesn’t happen! The second raid came after the first one, where we rescued the pilot in broad daylight, also unusual, spending seven hours over Iran,” he continued.
“An AMAZING show of bravery and talent by all! I will be having a News Conference, with the Military, at the Oval Office, on Monday, at 1:00 P.M. God Bless our great MILITARY WARRIORS!” Trump added.
Bravo Zulu! More details to come, sounds like one for the books. All teasing aside for the moment, Air Force PJs are BAMFS and nobody does CSAR better.
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2040643331491811687
Category: Air Force, Bravo Zulu
An Obama appointed Federal Judge will order the rescued pilot returned to Iranian custody.
Perhaps we can do a swap, and send the judge in his stead. Seems like a fair swap to me.
How about we send Newscum and Commissar?
Send several!
We are sending two California liberals instead.
I nominate Newscum and his Attorney General, Bonta.
I see that and raise you “Hanoi Jane” Fonda and Eric Swallwell!
Excellent, Hack!!!!
What a great thing to read first thing this Easter morning!
I missed this post this morning getting info on my friends flight coming in from New Jersey and I would have worn my white or blue BZ tee shirt after seeing the above Skivvy wavers signal flags…….
At $300,000,000 in lost/ destroyed equipment it was expensive, but worth it.
Hopefully we won’t have to do that again.
1) If you expect to fight a war without loses, you haven’t been paying attention to the last 10k of human history.
2) We plan to fight and win with no losses, but the enemy has a say, and they all make their plans and try to execute them.
3) This war is going great! We smash, test all our toys, the ones of us who sign up to fight get to fight and prove we are really that good, and our enemies humbly recalculate their running estimates of how well they can perform against the might of the USA.
We certainly identified a weakness in our drone and missile defenses. Hopefully they will take that stuff seriously now instead of as an afterthought. If we had gone full bore into a war with a near peer it could have been catastrophic.
Q: ” The Iranian Military was looking hard, in big numbers, and getting close”
A: Fuel Air Explosives
Thank you, edit feature.
Upon hearing the new of the rescue…
recusedrescued …. fixed that for the meme generator.Thanks for the clarification!
Suck it, mullahs!
Reports are saying two MC-130Js and a Little Bird had to be destroyed in situ. The MC-130s because they were stuck and the Little Bird as it didn’t have the fuel range to fly out without a FARP being done.
I’ve heard/read that it was two then one MC-130 that had to be destroyed. So still trying to find out the real number.
We came close to losing one of our MC-130Es in Afghanistan. But it wasn’t in danger of being overran. They finally rocked her loose the following day. She ended up being christened “Mud Puppy”
Mike
USAF Retired
Iran sure has a history of seeing the carcasses of destroyed C130s. Glad this rescue came off better than last time!
One of the aircrew members that participated in Desert 1 aka Eagle Claw (Before I joined the AF), was assigned to my unit in Germany years later. Deployed to Desert Storm with him, he was a great guy.
Being in AFSOC you tended to run into the same people at different assignments.
Mike
USAF Retired
@ King Fahd?
Nope, the 39th SOW (7th SOS, 21st SOS and 67th SOS) ended up at Incirlik AB Turkey, flying CSAR.
I was Aircrew Life Support assigned to the 7th SOS.
7th had MC-130E Combat Talons
67th had MC-130P Combat Shadows
21st had MH-53J Pave Lows
Mike
USAF Retired
Our first Incirlik deployment was ‘93 right after we received HH-60Gs, a joint venture with the 55th SOS and I believe the 9th SOS.
Cool, another AFSOC head on here…
Mike
USAF Retired
87-93, then Rescue ‘til retired. Same job tho
88-92 7th SOS
96-00 711th SOS
01-08 711th SOS
Also deployed with the 5th SOS our sister squadron. Plus I did a manpower assist with the 71st RQS, that was a fun deployment.
Mike
USAF Retired
711th sounds familiar
I showed up when they started picking up the MC-130E, all the A model Gun Pigs were already gone before I got there.
Later our sister squadron the 5th SOS with the MC-130P moved to main base Eglin and joined forces with the 9th SOS MC-130P, and the 8th SOS MC-130E moved from Hurlburt to Duke and joined forces with us.
The 711th is now operating out of Hurlburt and picking up the AC-130J.
Mike
USAF Retired
I went to our summer two-week drill at Camp Williams, Utah, and walked into the mess hall. Sitting at a table were two men I served with in Vietnam in different units. It turned out they were 7th Group evaluators for our UW exercise in Utah. One was a major with whom I spent many nights in a battalion TOC on fire support base. The other was a MSG who was a Ranger LRRP team leader who served continuously for four years in the Viet of the Nam. Needless to say, I was quite surprised to see them sitting together, as neither knew each other before their service in the 7th Special Forces Group.
Close, but no cigar….
We need to reproduce these and drop them on the enemy……
Fuck it it’s a war crime. Who cares
I would add the ham and limas from the C-rats, those are still available somewhere.
…if those are still available…. I bet there is a warehouse somewhere where they are moldering in rusty OD cans. I recall getting cans dated in the early 1950’s back in 1970.
Outstanding. I hope for a quick and full recovery.
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