00:00And we got we had great talent we got a little luck too I would say and we were
00:07helped by a lot of people a lot of great people then it was an honor to be
00:12involved with it it's very historic this is a rescue that's very historic
00:19it'll go down to the books late Thursday night an American F-15 fighter
00:24jet went down deep inside enemy territory in Iran while participating
00:29in operation epic fury where we're doing unbelievably well well at a level
00:35that nobody's ever seen before the entire country can be taken out in one
00:41night and that night might be tomorrow night both members of the crew ejected
00:47from the aircraft and landed alive on Iranian soil I immediately was
00:53asked to make a decision I ordered the US Armed Forces to do whatever was
00:59necessary to bring our brave warriors back home a risky decision because we
01:05could have ended up with a hundred dead as opposed to one or two it's a hard
01:10decision to make but in the United States military we leave no American behind we
01:17don't do it within hours our Armed Forces deployed 21 military aircraft into
01:22hostile airspace many flying at very low altitude being shot by bullets you bring
01:29rifles into play when you're going that low but there are also certain
01:34advantages and in broad daylight over Iran for seven hours at times facing very
01:41very heavy enemy fire we have a helicopter that's got a lot of bullets in it
01:46it's amazing
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