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Old 7th April 2026 | 19:18
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Job well done by the CSAR pros who plan, adapt, coordinate, and execute such a rescue of their brother-in-arms downed behind the lines and all those engaged in support to accomplish the mission. It's great to see decades of cumulative experience and training pay off in the face of an enemy determined to grab him but instead, to their great consternation, failed.

By floating conspiracy theories, re-posting social media nobodies/shills with alternative narratives, beancounting, the "Doesn't add up" crowd that seeks to diminish what was accomplished by these dedicated CSAR professionals only expose their own consternation at the mission's success, their blather only serving to accentuate how well those involved did their jobs.

50+ years ago a very good (older) friend was with the USAF's 20th SOS working with MACV-SOG carrying out CSAR missions in SE Asia. But they weren't even the first. The mission and dedicated CSAR units tasked trace their origins to the Korean War, 75 years ago, when helos entered the battlefield equation and plenty of pilots were being shot down behind enemy lines.

With that well-known history of cumulative experience due to the historic US commitment/policy of CSAR re downed pilots/aircrew, I don't believe for a second the feigned ignorance and/or doubt as to their present capabilities that segue the discussion into the aforementioned blather.
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