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Welcome to Wellness on Mass. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire. And today we're going to talk about

the incredible rescue mission that happened in Iran over the weekend. Why are we talking

about this on a wellness podcast, you may ask? Well, if you haven't been paying attention, this has been one of the most incredible rescue missions.

And from a medical standpoint, it is awe-inspiring that, while we know that there are injuries, there were no fatalities.

So let me just recap for anybody who hasn't watched the news over the last weekend. On April 3rd,

you know, a couple days before Easter, the USF15E Strike Eagle, which is type of plane, was shot down

over Iran. Both crew members on board, the pilot and the weapon system officer had to eject themselves. And what we knew were,

we had to then go in to get them. A second aircraft in A10 was also downed the same day.

That pilot ejected himself and was part of a separate rescue mission that got a little bit

less fanfare. Now, a massive search separate rescue mission that got a little bit less fanfare.

Now, a massive search and rescue mission went on over the course of the next, like, 45 hours.

Like 176 aircraft were involved, 100 to 200 special operations personnel.

This included SEAL Team 6, Delta Force, Army Rangers, drones, electronic warfare,

CIA. I don't even know. I'm sure they can't even tell us everyone who was involved in this.

But there was electronic jamming, fake intelligence, diversion flights, anything to just throw Iran off course because you have to imagine we are now in war with

Iran. So Iran wanted to find our downed pilots and weapons officers just as much as we did.

They had very different intentions as us in finding them, but they certainly were on the search

as well. What do we know? The pilot was rescued first,

but then that massive hunt went on for the weapons specialty officer. So here's what we know now

about what happened. We have gotten some statements from the White House. You know, after 45 hours,

they found the weapons officer. He had climbed up to a mountaintop

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