To. To be written. He was, he was shot down over Iran. He hid in the mountains. The Iranians were hunting for him. The CIA put out misinformation. We went in under hostile fire, did a rescue, blew up a couple of our planes and helicopters on the way out so the Iranians wouldn't get the technology. It was an amazing story. We're going to do a deep dive on that in today's podcast. Yeah, it's really incredible story. (03:44–03:54)
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Asserts that during the rescue of the airman, U.S. forces destroyed planes and helicopters to prevent Iranian capture of technology.
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