now, let's get the rest of the US Military out of this illegal war and back home safe.

Leave no Marine behind, wounded or deceased, and we never did.

I could really identify with what was going on. I was glad to hear he got saved - even though Trump and Hegseth will be bragging about it forever. The spotlight should be on all the pilots and the ground troops - they are very brave and are hero’s. Trump the coward could never do what they all did.

and a 13 year old has the keys.

He's going to have one hell of a story to tell.

At a minimum I would think the guy was severely bruised from the eject impact. Then he made it over 24 hours without being caught.

that's one of the reasons he was able to avoid capture and the training and professionalism of America's SOF to rescue him.

I'll wager that Air Force Pararescue were involve also.

I myself, never went through the course but I knew some of those that did and they said it was the toughest course they ever went through.

I did, however, go through the Navy's Seabee Combat training and it was a pretty tough training course.

In Maine. In the snow.

that's how I saw USAF pilots when I dealt with them as a teenaged airgal

as well as well mannered and mature. They're only dangerous when they need to be.

i can't help it.

If it were successful, we wouldn't have had Reagan et al.

details about the horrors he had to have experienced, but he told us about the priority of rescue for wounded and deceased. He told us about the incredible rescue help they received from villagers in the Belgian resistance. His unit helped liberate Buchenwald Concentration Camp. I am heartsick when I think of what he and the astronomical legions of others endured in battle compared to what is disgustingly happening with this ignorant, callous, incompetent, disrespectful gang of Trump regime thugs making decisions.

it's a G**damn shame that, as another DU'er said, we have a 13 yo in charge of the most lethal military force on the planet.

Hat's off to those SOF who risked their lives to save a fellow comrade.

I have a soft spot for the military because my dad is a military vet (Indian Navy not American), but still. Dad has met American Naval officers long back though.

Dad and I dislike and distrust most of the sleazy defense contracting out there - corrupt chicken hawks - but the military proper is different.

I was trying not to think about what this poor airman’s plight would have been had he been captured by the Iranian regime.

Sounds like a jimmy carter moment. Now he cannot be re-elected. right...right.
I always forget the rules don't apply to him.

Can’t think of him getting into their hands.

WE SUPPORT OUR MILITARY

WE DON'T SUPPORT BULLSHIT WARS

Saw too much BS almost twenty five years ago when anyone against the war in Iraq was “against the troops”.

Fuck those people.

And I lived with a bunch of republicans in my family. That was back when “normal” Republicans could disagree with the President and the party. Before they became zombies.

I don't remember anyone really being gung ho about it, and I sent a LOT of care packages to troops in Iraq.

I’m grateful for the rescue of this pilot and very cognizant that he followed his training in a very difficult and dangerous situation.

that indirectly bestows credit to them by association.

Special Operation Forces rescued the downed back seater after an intense firefight with no US casualties and all are out of Iranian territory and back on friendly grounds.

The US has the most lethal SOF's in the world and kudos to them, not Trumpedo or his toadies, for this very successful rescue of a comrade, now, it's far past time to end this insane and illegal war and bring our military home.

See post#29.

him and Kegsbreath had nothing to do with the successful rescue, it was the superb training of our SOF's, long before these 2 lunatics came on the scene.

Everything he touches dies.