A second United States Air Force combat aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday as rescue teams continued searching for a missing crew member from a downed F-15E Strike Eagle, according to two U.S. officials cited by The New York Times.
The second aircraft, an A-10 Thunderbolt II, went down near the Strait of Hormuz, and its pilot was safely rescued, the officials said.
The crash occurred around the same time that an F-15E was shot down over Iran, where one crew member has already been recovered and search teams continue looking for the second.
I’ve wondered once or twice whether or not the reason the American cult of the military saw such a rise in the minds of the average American over my lifetime is because we haven’t had a real war against anything close to military peer since I was born. Not discounting the effect 9/11 had which was profound, but when people don’t see the true carnage of war and the sacrifices that have to be made when it’s close to even footing they forget why most war is bar
I’m going to be downvoted i know it. I don’t want to be in Iran, I don’t know why we are there.
But, what we are doing on Iran is not even close to a conventional/real war. If Orange Cheeto in charge hasn’t already done to much damage to our military by forcing the good commanders out, and we went to “real war” with Iran, boots on the ground and all. We wouldn’t be losing these planes. But at the moment we are hanging the planes/fighters out to dry with little to no support. So yes, they are going to get shot down. But you can’t call this a “real war”
America’s obsession with its military and, by extension, ‘democratizing’ countries is very similar to that of Ancient Rome and how it went about ‘civilizing’ other cultures.
Which is to say, we have yet to find a Caesar to march on Washington.