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News & Current Events Apr 4, 2026 at 12:06 PM

Rescue team in Iran face 'harrowing and dangerous' search for US crew member

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Rescue team in Iran face 'harrowing and dangerous' search for US crew member
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Rescue team in Iran face 'harrowing and dangerous' search for US crew member
A former US marine tells the BBC the priority of any recovery team would be to look for signs of life.
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Brandon_Me 6 days ago +5554
I'm genuinely surprised this person is still missing. Not being captured or rescued by now feels insane.
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tampapat54 6 days ago +3021
I doubt they would give an update on the status of the missing pilot during an active SAR, but at this point he may have been KIA and they’re searching for a body
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Loose_Profession_918 6 days ago +1466
I read he signaled in so he's not KIA. If Iran got him they'd surely be talking about it and displaying the body.
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MaMerde 6 days ago +2123
Iran could have him and not publicize it. It would keep the CSAR team on the ground and occupied. Iran might choose to engage team. The CSAR team isn’t big enough to invade and killing some of them is another black eye for the US. They can always publicize the capture later. IDK. Just a thought. I don’t know shit.
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The_Love_Pudding 6 days ago +797
This is absolutely what they would do. Low flying aircraft and search teams are like small fish in a large barrel over there. Eventually you're going to catch at least one or two.
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jonnyrottwn 6 days ago +339
I saw a video of a tanker fueling two apaches or blackhawks , in broad daylight at a super low level...couple of manpads and 3 aircraft would be down
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alienXcow 6 days ago +205
There were videos of manpads being fired at the CSAR package that seemed to be defeated. That's what all the extra draggy bits on those helos and hercs are for. LAIRCM, flares, and missile warning systems all help you work in an environment like that.
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TheParmesan 6 days ago +43
Where are you finding those? I have t seen much actual material from this conflict compared to Ukraine.
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rockytop24 6 days ago +136
CSAR - combat search and rescue group from the air force. That's an HC-130J, a C-130 variant for CSAR operations outfitted with the ability to refuel to extend the helicopters' flight time. Not as familiar with helicopters but likely 2 HH-60 Pave Hawks, modified Black Hawks. It's riskier to fly in daytime, it's more common for them to fly at night really low and with no lights/radio, just NVG (night vision). But they definitely have fighter support overhead keeping on site while they're doing this. The group is carrying PJs - pararescue special forces, the guys who get people and equipment from behind enemy lines. They're h******* guys they have a higher washout rate than SEALs and they're all certified paramedics. The idea is either the helicopters land and secure the pilot if there's a good landing site. Otherwise they parachute in, including 3 PJs in the C-130, move to the pilot and secure an extraction elsewhere. When they came to my AFROTC career day they were badass. They showed off their dirt bikes and ATVs, that's the kind of stuff they'll airdrop in with to get in and out fast.
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yunus89115 6 days ago +109
> These Things We Do, That Others May Live That’s the motto of Pararescue, a highly trained specialized group of absolute professionals. They train to do exactly this, go behind enemy lines to retrieve downed pilots. They know the risks better than any of us.
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Humansbeinghoes 6 days ago +19
Yeah they have the best of the best in there.
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l0st1nP4r4d1ce 6 days ago +78
> The CSAR team isn’t big enough to invade and killing some of them is another black eye for the US. The echos of the failed hostage extraction would dominate the air.
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Lucas_Steinwalker 6 days ago +78
If someone just blew up my bridge then blew it up again to harm the rescue workers, this is exactly what I would do in response.
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Shyam09 6 days ago +66
I imagine they know how the Orange Draft Skipper would react. Iran: we have one American soldier. Give us reparations. Trump: just one? Please. It’s his fault he got captured. We don’t need losers like him anyway. Hegseth: HE GOT CAUGHT. HOW DUMB DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO GET CAUGHT. President Trump would never get caught like that. He’s the best at maneuvering. I’ve seen it first hand. He flies like a gazelle.
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Barnezhilton 6 days ago +42
This makes the most sense. Isreal said they halted attacks for the search and rescue missions. Prolonged halting helps Iran.
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potatodrinker 6 days ago +37
No benefit in Iran showing their cards or caskets early. Read enough Tom Clancy books to know that. Also lures in search and rescue for more target practice. Yehawww
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Loose_Profession_918 6 days ago +17
Very true, and would likely be the smarter move. I just feel like with all the civilian videos being leaked you'd see it. But like you, idk shit either lol
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Angry-Dragon-1331 6 days ago +49
Or use his signal to bait the rescue team in and capture them. It’s what I’d do if I were a radical dictator with an enemy who’s decided war crimes are fair game.
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theerrantpanda99 6 days ago +85
I’m sure there’s procedures to signal it’s actually you and not someone pretending to be you.
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Enough_Efficiency178 6 days ago +30
Yeah based entirely on watching Rescue Dawn, that was a problem as far back as Vietnam. No way they haven’t figured out a secure method by now
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Red1mc 6 days ago +12
Take out the radical dictator and your answer will still be valid. Iran is purely defending itself here
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CustodialApathy 6 days ago +17
Do you suppose Iran has had opportunity to study a US airforce emergency recovery transponder so they know how to use one?
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TOMC_throwaway000000 6 days ago +17
I’m confident you could probably figure it out with a couple of YouTube videos and a few forum posts
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Fahlnor 6 days ago +30
Guaranteed you could just post about how you’ve been using it with wrong information and people will immediately jump in to tell you you’re wrong and give you the correct way to do it.
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donjamos 6 days ago +14
Just ask in a war thunder forum
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Early-Sort8817 6 days ago +131
Hollywood execs foaming at the mouth for his rescue
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_badmedicine 6 days ago +85
“From the makers of Black Hawk Down and American Sniper…”
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rammstew 6 days ago +40
and Behind Enemy Lines starring Hansel
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FredFuzzypants 6 days ago +51
Maybe, but the news networks are hoping for a hostage crisis. The US hasn’t had one of those for a while, so it would probably generate some clicks.
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Optimal-Kitchen6308 6 days ago +18
maaaybe but I feel like gen pop is not really into this and many think it's going to get significantly worse than 1 plane getting hit so why get bent out of shape about it
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fiah84 6 days ago +24
casting is already underway
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Alone_Again_2 6 days ago +8
Which part does Timothée Chalumet play?
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OilyBobbyFl4y 6 days ago +23
the twink boywife back home
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doormatt26 6 days ago +6
Behind Enemy Lines 2: Zagros Boogaloo
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Special_Loan8725 6 days ago +24
I think Iran benefits more from not killing them. They are winning the PR war on this so far.
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BuddhistSagan 6 days ago +14
He could have been Kia after that and you don't know how the Iran will act when they get his body
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Dizzy_Restaurant3874 6 days ago +12
Not sure why they'd leak that information and tell Iran that the US/Iran had a live pilot to try to find instead of just a body recovery.
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Brandon_Me 6 days ago +26
Well they can say they found him, but if they don't it's safe to assume missing or captured.
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DazzlingResource561 6 days ago +453
Some possible scenarios 1. Iran guard has captured them, but US military doesn’t know this yet and Iran is using this captured pilot to bait US into sending more service people into conflict zone in hopes of downing and capturing more US military personnel. 2. Pilot is hiding and evading. 3. Iranian not friendly to government is harboring and protecting pilot. 4. US Military does know fate and is working to safely extract.
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Aduialion 6 days ago +260
1b. Iran captured the pilot. The US knows but refuses to report it because, you know, the current administration.
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ianc1215 6 days ago +94
Well remember Trump doesn't like captured combatants. He thinks they're suckers and losers. He only likes winners. I wonder if he will even attend more dignified transfers or burials at Arlington?
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Playful_Rip_1280 6 days ago +19
If Iran captured him it would and all over their propaganda channels let’s be real. They’re probably creating an AI video of it as we speak lmao
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neora_55 6 days ago +124
3 only makes sense in a hollywood movie.
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_head_ 6 days ago +26
I mean, that's what happened to Marcus Luttrell.
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DazzlingResource561 6 days ago +54
Not necessarily. There are plenty of anti regime people. Plenty of stories of this happening in wars.
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neora_55 6 days ago +97
What kind of motivation would lead an Iranian to harbor an American fighter jet pilot? Do you think anti-regime people are okay with being bombed?
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adenosine-5 6 days ago +58
Anti-regine does not mean pro-American. Iran regime is killing students, while Americans are bombing schools.
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AdmirableJudgment784 6 days ago +16
5. They won't be able to save the pilot, because the entire administration is incompetent from top to bottom. I mean look at the number of jets lost so far.
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YoungHeartOldSoul 6 days ago +51
Nothing like an impromptu vacation behind enemy line so your commander in Chief's dead pedophile friends best friend can blow up his neighbors for being brown.
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James_Bondage0069 6 days ago +48
I would be surprised if they weren’t dead. I don’t think they survived the crash.
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Loose_Profession_918 6 days ago +26
He signaled in so he survived the wreck
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Brandon_Me 6 days ago +59
Wouldn't they have found the body? Iran would likely have at the very least. And I thought that they made contact with the US's after the plane went down, but maybe I misread that.
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Wafkak 6 days ago +24
Its not that densely populated of an area. Often its just luck when they are found quickly. A search could easily take months without enemy fire. Especially if they are alive and paranoid of Iranians pretending to be American.
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Brandon_Me 6 days ago +33
Irans landscape doesn't give him a lot of fresh water sources for months of hiding.
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devonhezter 6 days ago +21
I imagine he’s hiding in a literal small cave hole. Or they have him and they’re just not saying. But shouldn’t they have found where his booster seat was and follow footsteps ???
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Technical_Fee1536 6 days ago +40
It’s been reported that they made initial contact via encrypted radio after being downed. Most likely survived the crash but we really don’t have more information than that at the moment.
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VTDan 6 days ago +17
One of the two crewmen has already been rescued though, so clearly they ejected
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ThePensiveE 6 days ago +17
The pilot who was rescued may have very well seen the chute deploy and land. If they said so they won't stop looking.
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Evanescent_contrail 6 days ago +99
Iran has every motivation to keep the US searching. Unlike the US top brass, they maintain opsec.
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TerryFromFubar 6 days ago +37
People are really looking past the bait aspect. Not finding the pilot or their body is a humiliation for America and a demoralizer for their troops, but say Iran found the pilot or their body and didn't say anything for a couple days, then America will just keep pouring sitting duck targets into the area on borderline suicidal missions.
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alexios_kk 6 days ago +90
Uhhh…Iran has famously awful opsec, which is why their entire leadership is dead
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muitosabao 6 days ago +4
Yeah, we’ll have to wait for the movie in a few years, directed by Alex Garland or the likes, in the typical US fashion of invading and attacking other countries and then making popcorn movies about it exploring the trauma of their soldiers while ignoring the suffering of the locals.
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ASpellingAirror 6 days ago +2791
I feel a little guilty that my first thought was. “This is going to be a movie in 10 years.”
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donkeybrainhero 6 days ago +2195
And they'll fabricate 70% of it just like Lone Survivor
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hairsprayking 6 days ago +1331
or 99% like American Sniper
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aveey 6 days ago +200
But the baby was pretty realistic at least
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roiki11 6 days ago +200
Or Behind Enemy Lines.
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CrispyHaze 6 days ago +43
Or Ernest in the Army.
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GeorgiaJayhawk68 6 days ago +69
Instead of a football, they’ll launch a soccer ball off the carrier - because the US is hosting FIFA.
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TheLizardKing89 6 days ago +22
At least that movie wasn’t pretending to be a true story.
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No_Bad_4872yy 6 days ago +11
Or stolen valour in U-571
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Son_Of_Toucan_Sam 6 days ago +11
Roger Ebert’s review of that movie is outstanding
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dikskwad 6 days ago +21
Still more truthful than lone survivor.
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Familiar_While2900 6 days ago +25
Blackhawk down ?
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KellyJin17 6 days ago +31
That movie was about 70% to the book and extremely well done.
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kerenski667 6 days ago +11
how much of the book is bs tho?
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fattmarrell 6 days ago +60
That film was actually incredible
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Jackanova3 6 days ago +62
And decently accurate! I read recently that the political fallout of The Battle of Mogadishu put an end to "boots on the ground" operations in Africa. 8 months after this, the Rwandan genocide happened that killed 800,000 people in 10 days. The UN wanted to get involved but the US blocked it because they were so worried about the potential political fallout of another failed military attempt.
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farnsw0rth 6 days ago +6
This here’s my safety. I also still ask people for “a no bullshit assessment” about whether they can actually deliver on what’s they’re saying they can.
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Belligerent-J 6 days ago +220
"The number of casualties sustained by the Taliban fighters has also been disputed. [Naval Special Warfare Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Special_Warfare_Command) has estimated that Luttrell and his teammates killed around thirty-five insurgents during the battle. Andrew MacMannis, a former Marine Colonel who was involved in planning Operation Red Wings and assisted in recovering bodies after the mission, has stated that there were no known enemy casualties. Mohammad Gulab, the Afghan villager who rescued Luttrell, agrees with MacMannis, as does another Marine who was involved with the mission, Patrick Kinser, who has said, "I've been at the location where \[Luttrell\] was ambushed multiple times. I've had Marines wounded there. I've been in enough firefights to know that when shit hits the fan, it's hard to know how many people are shooting at you. \[But\] there weren't 35 enemy fighters in all of the Korengal Valley \[that day\]." Furthermore, Gulab has claimed that he found Luttrell with eleven magazines of ammunition – the full amount that Luttrell had brought on the mission" from Wikipedia Lol
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Phenomenomix 6 days ago +62
Luttrell’s account should be disregarded as he was off and running as soon as the shooting started. The Navy inflated the numbers of enemy combatants and put the original seal team into a situation they weren’t trained to handle and had already been advised by the Marine’s who had been working in that specific area that their plan was going to get people killed
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Vnthem 6 days ago +41
That part in the movie where the Taliban guy is threatening to cut his head off and Mark Wahlberg is like “FUCKIN DO IT THEN!!” Made me roll my eyes into the back of my head. That guy would have shit himself to death if that actually happened (rightfully so as that would be terrifying). I hated how generic and lame that movie was but my roommate at the time fuckin loved it. We saw it in the theatre and he watched it a lot afterwards as well. He couldn’t believe I thought it was just alright.
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Imperium_Dragon 6 days ago +26
Meanwhile he abandoned Axelson who was still alive by the time the Rangers found Luttrell and had been fighting a running battle with the enemy militia.
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Samiel_Fronsac 6 days ago +145
Oh, that one was bad. The SEALS actually fucked over their own comms and got out fought by a small number of enemies, right? Plus the dude accusing his dead team members of putting the potential war crime to a vote, shitting on them for a quick buck.
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donkeybrainhero 6 days ago +72
Here's a new report on it https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/03/20/operation-red-wings-lone-survivor-luttrell-00833548?_sp_pass_consent=true
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iRegretsEverything 6 days ago +32
It’s almost as if SEALs were lying, John Chapman Medal of Honor would have a say in this.
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Samiel_Fronsac 6 days ago +14
That was a fuckng disgrace. Slabinski should be shamed, not honoured.
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Imperium_Dragon 6 days ago +33
To make matters worse for the SEALs, the insurgent group actually recorded the engagement. There’s no more than 10 guys there shooting at the SEALs.
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Samiel_Fronsac 6 days ago +22
A Taliban subcommander was interviewed by contractors at a point, according to the Político article, and he said there were 12 total, counting the cameramen, so 10 shooters indeed. That was then. Shit is gonna be so, so much worse with 4k videos of US servicemen vs drones published by the Iranians when the ground invasion gets the green light...
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roflmaohaxorz 6 days ago +11
In all fairness, I don’t think it was his decision to make. When you watch interviews with Luttrell, he doesn’t glorify the battle and he doesn’t pretend that he’s a hero. He has outright said “I’m a coward, I did the one thing you never do, I dropped my rifle”. I suspect that this is more on the Navy, ultimately they review and approve any military-action books before they’re published. Wouldn’t surprise me if they wrote the book and told him to just play the part
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UlsterManInScotland 6 days ago +92
They won’t get a worldwide cinema audience cheering for the Americans this time around that’s for f****** sure
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Wafkak 6 days ago +41
You overestimate the popularity of the US back then. It was more about being a cool action movie internationally.
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UlsterManInScotland 6 days ago +39
I was in my thirties ( back then ) yeah it was a cool action movie but also Americans were viewed as friends and allies , here in the uk the view of the USA as any sort of reliable friend is gone, the opinion of the USA from my friends on the continent is even worse …. They’re now viewed as war mongering bullies who threaten their closest neighbours and can’t be trusted …. So it won’t have the same audience , no one cheers for the f****** bad guys
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Wafkak 6 days ago +20
Might be my environment here in Belgium. But the US being untrustworthy and having undue influence has been prevalent in my 31 years.
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mrjosemeehan 6 days ago +5
Belgium was part of the US coalition in Afghanistan, but not in Iraq. So yeah the US has been losing support for a long time but it's a lot worse now.
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mojambowhatisthescen 6 days ago +6
Only 70% fake would practically be a documentary
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Curious_Avocado2399 6 days ago +161
Already did “behind enemy lines” but just switch it to Middle East instead of the balkans
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raised_by_toonami 6 days ago +102
Owen Wilson in: Behind Enemy Lines 2: Hot Tehran Nights
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chaos8803 6 days ago +21
They made a second one already.
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Fit-Cable1547 6 days ago +3
Woooowww, it happened again.
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Double_Resort_9223 6 days ago +47
This time with an alcoholic secretary of defense and demented President 
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rainbowgeoff 6 days ago +9
That was a good movie though. "Stackhouse!" When the one dude gets shot down, which i always remembered because of the NBA player Jerry Stackhouse.
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give_me_the_formu0li 6 days ago +65
A propaganda movie that casts a blond haired blue eyes pilot fighting the Iranian savages for truth and justice. I’m not gonna lie, I used to enjoy war movies like any other. But since growing up and seeing what US and other western nations do overseas it’s all propaganda to me I can’t sit thru any of them.
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Majestic_Park978 6 days ago +28
2 years tops. Maybe even before midterms this year
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AAA_Battery_PoE 6 days ago +51
Another US war movie where they want to make you feel bad for US soldier killing people defending their country from a aggresive invasion. No peace like american peace right?
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Yui_Hirasawalex_Lora 6 days ago +67
And they will show americans as heroes instead of the terrorists they are.
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tmhoc 6 days ago +8
He will take cover in one of those children's graves and shoot at their father with the soundtrack as a symphony orchestra
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Bowman_van_Oort 6 days ago +17
No need to feel guilty, they knew the risks
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Swordsandarmor22 6 days ago +891
No quarter guy should be the one looking for them.
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PantsDontHaveAnswers 6 days ago +380
Yeah except it's largely a dry country and Pete would die from withdrawals.
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PantsDontHaveAnswers 6 days ago +176
Actually yeah send it.
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asadultan3 6 days ago +976
All they had to do was go to the nearest hangar and steal the Iranian Tomcat
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Capital_Fun8973 6 days ago +194
This should be day 1 of SERE training. After that they can just play beach. Volleyball for 3 weeks.
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Schrodinger_cube 6 days ago +30
Amazing plot basically dead or a live beach volleyball, was definitely not the game my young teenager eyes was expecting but thicc plot was worth it.
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What-a-Crock 6 days ago +166
Maverick and Rooster made it look easy peezy
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Cainga 6 days ago +29
I like how they just snuck onto a military base and were able to sneak to an operable fighter jet with almost no personnel or security.
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telaftw39 6 days ago +13
Nah, we already destroyed that.
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Travyswole 6 days ago +1267
Trump sent him there. Remember that
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Horses_arse_7 6 days ago +642
So did every single one of his voters. They were warned but chose propaganda instead.
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concerned_seagull 6 days ago +114
They were too interested in worrying about sharing a toilet or something. 
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LateNightPhilosopher 6 days ago +54
Many were swayed by completely baseless campaign signs with a picture of Trump in one side and Biden or Harris on the other, standing on opposite sides of a basket of groceries, with the price total on Trump's side being much cheaper than the Dem side. That's it. A lot of people I know irl genuinely told me that that stupid f****** sign was brilliant and convinced them that Trump would fix our economy.
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harperwilliame 6 days ago +22
“ affordability, just thought of it. No one ever thought of it before.”
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TheBunnyDemon 6 days ago +18
They got all three or so trans kids playing sports in Idaho kicked off their sports teams so they should still be pretty happy.
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jyanjyanjyan 6 days ago +26
And the people who didn't vote.
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-rwsr-xr-x 6 days ago +33
> Trump sent him there. Remember that More accurately, Hegseth fired the top military leaders who refused to send their soldiers there, until they found someone who would. And then that person sent them there to die. Both happened under Trump's orders.
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Adventurous_Salt 6 days ago +51
Post Iraq 2, torture ring, etc... every soldier knows full well what they are signing up to do. They have agency.
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AscendMoros 6 days ago +15
lol when I was in a good chunk of the people hated Trump and just wanted an education to get out of a deadend town or poverty. Let’s just say there’s a reason the recruiters show up to schools that are in impoverished areas. People are a lot more desperate there.
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PMmeyourUntappdscore 6 days ago +16
No quarter, as per Hegseth.
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beer_bukkake 6 days ago +10
This is why I’m so sick and tired of the country’s worship of service people. These are Vietnam vets who got drafted. These people signed up, knew full well what they were getting into. They have free will.
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lavenderpenguin 6 days ago +74
He signed up. There is no draft. Better to have a dishonorable discharge than to do the devil’s bidding and kill civilians for a paycheck. How do these people sleep at night, knowing they traded their souls in for some military perks?
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beer_bukkake 6 days ago +31
They sleep just fine because they’re all morally bankrupt
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homiechampnaugh 6 days ago +25
Stop making excuses for people who choose to go out and kill people on the other side of the world for money.
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Boacero 6 days ago +51
As much as I hate trump, the soldier wasn’t dragged bound and screaming to iran. He went willingly to participate in an illegal war and to kill civilians
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No_Mercy_4_Potatoes 6 days ago +2221
We didn't get anywhere near as many articles about the 165+ kids killed on the first day, as we are getting about this one pilot.
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reco84 6 days ago +386
Yeah, I honestly dont know why we care. The US is killing civilians every single day.
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NonHidden1 6 days ago +170
Yep, it’s f****** ridiculous. Why should I give a shit about some American soldier invading another country 🤯
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jumbledsiren 6 days ago +63
Exactly this, he's a US soldier, US soldiers terrorize the middle east, yet all the news are talking about him like he's some sort of a poor hero or something.
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NiobiumThorn 6 days ago +49
While bravely blowing up a hospital, our poor soldier lost his life to the SAVAGE BARBARIAN ENEMY
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RavensQueen502 6 days ago +256
Yep. I'm not American, and I can't help thinking if he does get caught by Iran or died in the crash, it won't be undeserved.  He signed up to be in the army after seeing what US has been doing in the middle East. He followed orders to fly this mission. 
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Epic_Brunch 6 days ago +126
I have some sympathy for the US soldiers. For some underprivileged kids, joining the military is really the only way out of poverty depending on where you're from. It's the only realistic way to pay for college (the military will pay for your degree) and earn a livable income.  If this person signed up years ago with Biden in office, it would have been perfectly reasonable that they would have expected to spend their entire career in the army without being dragged into any stupid wars. 
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mojambowhatisthescen 6 days ago +46
I can understand why they join the military. Just like I can understand why poor, orphaned kids from certain parts of the place I’m from joined Taliban or ISIS. But that doesn’t mean I’m particularly sad when either is killed while trying to invade a territory or kill civilians.
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JinkoTheMan 6 days ago +146
When I graduated high school a couple years back I knew a guy that got kicked out the day of his graduation by his mom. Just told him to get tf out. It was either the military or be homeless. He wasn’t one of those guys that constantly fantasized about the military either. I’m not defending the actions of the military because I think they do some really horrible shit but not everyone that joins the military is some bloodthirsty child killer. If anything I think it’s a massive failure on our society that for some people, selling themselves off to the military for a couple years is the only way for them to make it.
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Common-Addendum-4349 6 days ago +45
It’s not a failure; it’s by design.
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JinkoTheMan 6 days ago +26
I meant it’s a moral failure but you’re absolutely right about it being by design.
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kozscabble 6 days ago +82
An f15 pilot isn't underprivileged I guarantee you lol these aren't genius orphans haha I get your point tho
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mrjosemeehan 6 days ago +34
He's a career commissioned officer, not some kid who enlisted because he didn't know how else to make a living after high school.
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Adventurous_Salt 6 days ago +17
Do you feel the same about underprivileged kids that signed up for al Qaeda or Isis?
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bigbjarne 6 days ago +31
> If this person signed up years ago with Biden in office, it would have been perfectly reasonable that they would have expected to spend their entire career in the army without being dragged into any stupid wars. Eh, I wouldn't downplay the Democrats that much. They also love wars, because the capitalist class need wars(as Lenin [explained](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQrXV92V31s)), but the Democats don't just start wars. That's the difference.
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NiobiumThorn 6 days ago +8
Eh they sure start quiet wars and ""special operations"" but fair point
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Isariamkia 6 days ago +50
I understand why one would join the military. I also think they don't deserve any sympathy, though. The fact that they may have a shitty life without military, doesn't mean they can bring chaos and misery to others.
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AndroidNumber3527229 6 days ago +45
Dude stop. The American military primarily recruits from the middle class. & no it wouldn’t have been perfectly reasonable under Biden unless your memory is 4 years long. This is the 4th war of my life. You guys need to wake up and stop the jingoistic American Mythos c***. It’s not real, never has been. If you don’t know what America and its military does at this point, you’re willfully ignorant. The data actually shows that poor kids actually find other ways to survive more often than not. Most soldiers are just middle class dudes who didn’t want to work hard at a trade or profession & wanted to join a jobs program, get benefits & live off our taxes while being immoral. There’s a reason our SA rates are astronomical for our soldiers
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SergenteA 6 days ago +28
Eh, I have sympathy with grunts. There for college, healthcare, to not cause their parents bankruptcy maybe even. Pilots have far more leverage and education.
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Sammsim 6 days ago +23
If you're a soldier, your entire job is killing people. Thats what they signed up for. They chose to be a murderer for money. They chose to be a soldier. How does poverty justify the slaughter of people in other countries ? Is it because the poor Americans are more important than the lives of people in other countries?
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rockytop24 6 days ago +16
I just read a fantastic long-form article about it from The Guardian that is very much worth a read. It's about how misleading it is to ask if this was Claude or ChatGPT because this is a tech stack a decade in the making and run by Palantir after Google was forced by employees to abandon the contract. It's called **Maven**: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
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ion-deez-nuts 6 days ago +108
So many people are going through hell because of an idiotic party in US government
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lucifer893 6 days ago +276
What mission were the downed jet was on anyways?
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Toums95 6 days ago +620
Aiding in the bombing of a foreign country
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devonhezter 6 days ago +196
I wonder how many bombs these two guys dropped. And how many they killed
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Brokkyn2024 6 days ago +188
Operation: Trump/Epstein Epic Distraction
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Solkre 6 days ago +86
Epstine Fury isn’t it?
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KohlsCashOfficial 6 days ago +20
Epstein Bury
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Boacero 6 days ago +60
Bombing civilians, probably looking for a school or a hospital
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Old_Channel44 6 days ago +113
There will be many hardships in the quest for oil. May their families rest in the knowledge they could help corporations and billionaires get richer.
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JesterMethod 6 days ago +238
Maybe the government shouldn't attack a foreign nation without justified provocation then
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soggyclothesand 6 days ago +166
Release the Trump pedo files!
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devonhezter 6 days ago +25
Bibi won’t
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PineappleOk6764 6 days ago +79
Almost as harrowing as the search for children, with double-tap bombs being dropped...
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snower88 6 days ago +128
Gentle reminder that the Epstein is still not released. We don’t forget!
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DisposableBits 6 days ago +19
Why would you want Epstein released he's dead anyways
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Life-Sun- 6 days ago +362
The US and Israel have killed hundreds of innocent civilians in Iran and injured thousands more. There is a massive loss of human life. The invaders are in the wrong.
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Fit_Reputation8581 6 days ago +258
So 165 girls die no one cared but everyone is worried about 1 f****** guy
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AndroidNumber3527229 6 days ago +64
The girls aren’t useful for war propaganda, the pilot is. The medias job rn is to make us support this war
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BiscoBiscuit 6 days ago +14
This is making people support this war?? I’ve seen the opposite effect in person 
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NiobiumThorn 6 days ago +11
Because the strategy doesn't work as well anymore
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TopComprehensive8569 6 days ago +64
I'm not worried. Troops should be getting the Vietnam treatment as they weren't even drafted. They all choose to do the missions and pull the trigger. They have a choice.
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ThePensiveE 6 days ago +26
I hope they find him but it's very possible Iran either has them or their body already and is letting SAR aircraft expose themselves to more potential attacks.
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TOdEsi 6 days ago +35
America said they would take no prisoners and proved it when the sunk the defenseless exhibition ship and left the sailors to die; why would they expect anything different for their own servicemen?
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huntsab2090 6 days ago +92
Maybe dont attack countries for no valid reason then. I have little to zero sympathy.
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IntrepidSoda 6 days ago +36
Pretty sure it is way less "harrowing and dangerous" than those school girls bombed by the american terrorists.
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Electric-Dance-5547 6 days ago +20
Don’t start no shit won’t be no shit. Trump needs impeached and removed.
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Pleasant-Ad887 6 days ago +43
Dying for Israel and a paedophile. Crazy.
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Resident_Cat162 6 days ago +18
Probably voluntarily missing
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zidave0 6 days ago +50
Sucks to suck. Shouldn't be over there anyway. Probably already dead
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FullTime4WD 6 days ago +8
The string of propaganda movies we are gonna get in the next few years about it...
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Loreathan 6 days ago +8
They will make a movie of it which I won't watch
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RidetheSchlange 6 days ago +15
Oh well.  That's what they voted for.
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52-61-64-75 6 days ago +40
thats weird, why would American planes be over Iran? Thats pretty far from America, must have gotten lost
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mike-42-1999 6 days ago +24
Fixed the headline "Due to Trump not releasing the Epstein Files and starting a pointless war, aviators who shouldn't have been there are shot down requiring others who shouldn't have to be there, having to go retrieve them."
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NiobiumThorn 6 days ago +18
Ah, they shouldn't have been there in the first place
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Curious_Party_4683 6 days ago +7
none of this had to happen. so many about to die just for US's fave con man Dump.
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h3rp3r 6 days ago +22
This is why you shouldn't follow unlawful orders to invade and attack another country.
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2gunswest 6 days ago +16
Imagine not having to do this at all, because a tiny little man never started the "military action".
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RezhWins 6 days ago +13
I feel a movie coming up in a few years.
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ThreeTreesForTheePls 6 days ago +28
If you don’t want to get lost or captured in a foreign nation, a good trick for this is: Do not sign up for a military that is infamously known for its invasions of West Asian nations.
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xPhilip 6 days ago +14
I will not lose any sleep about this.
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ahmed_abd_elfattah 6 days ago +14
This is what America brought upon itself by entering a war that was not against it.
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joker_toker28 6 days ago +19
Crying over a missing pilot when literally kids got bombed...... We deserve that big fucken rock hitting us again and restarting this shit again. Shit remember idf killing civilians? Oh you dont.
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AutoRot 6 days ago +8
Those CSAR guys are some of the most elite in the entire US armed forces. SEALs and Delta get a lot of pop culture attention but these guys are truly a different breed.
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