{"id":70959,"date":"2026-04-06T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/inside-the-militarys-daring-rescue-of-downed-us-airman-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:56:39","slug":"inside-the-militarys-daring-rescue-of-downed-us-airman-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/inside-the-militarys-daring-rescue-of-downed-us-airman-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Military&#8217;s Daring Rescue of Downed US Airman in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New details are emerging from the dramatic rescue of two American airmen in a remote corner of Southwest Iran after their F-15 fighter jet was shot down on Friday. The pilot was recovered within hours but according to President Donald Trump, the weapons officer was seriously injured had to hide in a mountain crevice for more than 24 hours as Iranians searched the area with a $60,000 bounty on his head. NBC\u2019s Stephanie Gosk reports and Col. Steve Warren joins TODAY with analysis on the rescue m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New details are emerging from the dramatic rescue of two American airmen in a remote corner of Southwest Iran after their F-15 fighter jet was shot down on Friday. The pilot was recovered within hours but according to President Donald Trump, the weapons officer was seriously injured had to hide in a mountain crevice for &#8230; <a title=\"Inside the Military&#8217;s Daring Rescue of Downed US Airman in Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/inside-the-militarys-daring-rescue-of-downed-us-airman-in-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Inside the Military&#8217;s Daring Rescue of Downed US Airman in Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}