Donald Trump wants to know who leaked details about the missing U.S. airman who was rescued from the mountains of Iran in a high-stakes mission on Sunday.
The U.S. carried out a daring operation to extract two airmen who ejected from the F-15E fighter jet that was shot down by Iranian forces on Friday. The military plucked the pilot out of Iranian territory on Friday, and later pulled out the second service member who was hiding in the mountains.
But during a press conference on Monday, Trump accused a media organization of jeopardizing the mission for reporting that a second airman was missing on Friday. He did not name the media organization, but threatened to jail the journalist who first reported that a second airman was missing.
People keep saying this in this thread. But there are multiple versions of the F15 and many are single operator aircraft. I don’t know much about our current inventory or what ones are in operation. Is there evidence of what model of F15 was shot down? I know one was the dual operator F15E. But I haven’t seen any info on the other one that they were not covering as much. The one that crashed outside of Iran.