Resurrection Rescue. The day of Jesus' resurrection, a daring rescue brings the downed airman home.
Max Afterburner tells the story. Surely a movie here.
Retired Colonel Joe Buccino, shows us the map.
ADDED: Mainstream Media — CNN, MSNBC, ABC, New York Times… — can hardly bring themselves to mention the rescue. Such is their hatred for Trump they’d rather the American pilots had been lost, or, even better, captured as hostages.
Meantime: Chinese media was claiming that America had killed its pilots. Then.. that they were trying to kill their pilots. Apparently based on IRGC propaganda. Vince Dao, grandson of a South Vietnamese Army general who was airlifted in the infamous “Fall of Saigon” helicopter evacuations, talks about the U.S. doctrine of “no man left behind”. And how anti Americans are spinning this rescue (“Huge cost in wrecked aircraft”).
On the issue of costs of the rescue, I did the calculations. They come to 0.000013 of the Pentagon budget. Less than a rounding error. While Morale boost is huge. And imagine the opposite effect on morale of the Iranians parading a captured pilot. So, yeah, very much worth it. And to be lauded. Screw the Europeans petty-minded shitty take.
