An American airman found himself stuck behind enemy lines on Saturday in the “treacherous mountains of Iran,” after his aircraft was shot down and Iranian forces were closing in, according to the president. But in a daring rescue mission, the CIA managed to pick up his distress signal and fed false information through multiple channels to confuse the enemy, Fox News reported. In the meantime, MQ9 Reaper drones established a secure perimeter and U.S. forces were able to rescue him.
In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump said the airman “was never truly alone because his Commander in Chief, Secretary of War, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fellow Warfighters were monitoring his location 24 hours a day, and diligently planning for his rescue.”
