{"id":81950,"date":"2026-04-05T07:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81950"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:49:14","slug":"u-s-aviator-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/u-s-aviator-rescued\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Aviator Rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the New York Post\u00a0<\/em>[caution tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p>The US rescued a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/04\/world-news\/us-forces-have-rescued-missing-pilot-of-f-15e-jet-downed-by-iran-reports\/\">missing F-15E airman<\/a> deep inside Iran with an incredibly complex and daring mission that involved SEAL Team 6, a CIA ruse, a hastily constructed forward air strip in hostile territory and patrols of friendly aircraft that gave the Air Force colonel cover.\u00a0A\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/04\/us-news\/military-continues-urgent-search-for-f-15-co-pilot-behind-enemy-lines-in-iran\/\">life-or-death race between US and Iranian forces<\/a>\u00a0to find the \u201cseriously injured\u201d weapons officer outside Isfahan over two days culminated in the crew member\u2019s extraction by America\u2019s most elite commandos and a fire fight with local militias that were hunting for him,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/04\/us\/politics\/military-iran-airman-rescue.html?smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a report in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <em> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/05\/world-news\/us-rescued-f-15-airman-in-iran-with-seal-team-6-cia-ruse-and-death-from-above\/\">[For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mywabashvalley.com\/federal-executions\/william-lecroy-executed-at-u-s-penitentiary\/\">]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/e64d7db\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4189x2792+0+0\/resize\/727x485!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F7d%2Ff5%2Ff6a306187bb5102aaf12bdadde84%2Fea3906fb0c954300abdd6526d366b509\" alt=\"In this image provided by Sepahnews, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's official website, wreckage is shown at what Iran's state TV claimed was the site of a downed American transport plane and two helicopters involved in a rescue operation, in Isfahan province, Iran, April, 2026. (Sepahnews via AP)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump said the effort to rescue the second pilot was a rarely attempted type of operation because of the potential dangers.\u00a0He said in a social media post on Sunday that the pilot was \u201cseriously wounded and really brave\u201d and rescued from \u201cdeep inside the mountains\u201d in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the pilot is a \u201chighly respected Colonel\u201d and that Iranian forces were \u201clooking hard, in big numbers\u201d and \u201cgetting close\u201d to him.\u00a0He also gave details of the rescue of the first pilot, who Trump said was rescued in \u201cbroad daylight\u201d after seven hours over Iran.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1775372517\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"U.S. Aviator Rescued\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post\u00a0[caution tabloid]: The US rescued a\u00a0missing F-15E airman deep inside Iran with an incredibly complex and.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81950"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81954,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81950\/revisions\/81954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}