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Trump Reveals Details Of Daring 48-Hour Mission To Rescue Downed Pilot Deep In Iran Trump Reveals Details Of Daring 48-Hour Mission To Rescue Downed Pilot Deep In Iran
Trump Reveals Details Of Daring 48-Hour Mission To Rescue Downed Pilot Deep In Iran A shot-down US Air Force colonel deep in hostile territory inside Iran. A 48-hour race against time. And a rescue operation so audacious that some senior military advisers told President Donald Trump it simply couldn't be done. Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe revealed the full scope of the dramatic operation at a White House press conference on Monday, April 6. The F-15E Strike Eagle carrying the weapons systems officer — a colonel whose identity has not been released — was shot down in southwestern…

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by Joe Lombardi
Politics
Trump Fires Nation's Senior Military Officer Trump Fires Nation's Senior Military Officer
Trump Fires Nation's Senior Military Officer President Donald Trump announced on social media that he has just fired the nation's senior military officer and named a successor. General Charles Q. Brown Jr., age 62,  made history as only the second African American to lead the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Trump appointed retired three-star general John D. Caine to fill Brown's position as he seeks to reshape military leadership. “Today, I am honored to announce my nomination of Lieutenant General Dan ‘Razin’ Caine as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Friday evening, Feb…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
Video Shows Rescue In Cliff-Diving Gone Wrong In Passaic County Video Shows Rescue In Cliff-Diving Gone Wrong In Passaic County
Video Shows Rescue In Cliff-Diving Gone Wrong In Passaic County The New Jersey State Police Department has released video footage of an aerial rescue of a cliff-diver who suffered serious injuries in a West Milford accident. The NJSP's aviation unit and TEAMS unit, a special operations unit, responded to an area of West Milford Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 28, for a diver who was seriously injured in rugged terrain. Pilots, hoist operators, and rescuers "undertook a complex and high-risk extraction," NJSP says.  Video shows troopers locating the victim from the air, packaging him into a stokes basket, and then hoisting him up. "Facing challenging weat…

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by Cecilia Levine