Sounds alot like when Marcus Luttrell was rescued in Afghanistan .
This is how it's done! An Easter Miracle....
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: A senior U.S. military official just called this one of the most complex and daring special operations missions in American history.
The details coming out are nothing short of extraordinary.
After the Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) from the downed F-15E was recovered deep inside Iran, two U.S. transport planes got stuck at a remote base. Commanders quickly flew in three replacement aircraft, extracted every American safely, and destroyed the two disabled planes on the ground so they wouldn’t fall into Iranian hands.
The F-15E went down in a part of Iran where there’s real opposition to the regime. It looks like the WSO received help from local civilians who risked everything to shelter an American airman while their own government was hunting him.
The CIA has a process for exactly this kind of thing — called unconventional assisted recovery — where they connect with locals willing to protect our troops in harm’s way.
Put it all together: Our pilot ejected, climbed into the mountains, was protected by brave Iranian civilians who hate the regime, evaded capture for nearly 48 hours while Iran offered bounties, survived a fierce firefight during the rescue, and was extracted in an operation so complex that it required additional aircraft to get everyone out safely — with the original planes destroyed on the way out.
What an incredible story of courage, ingenuity, and American resolve.
God bless our military and all those who helped bring our hero home.