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JUST IN: The New York Times confirmed the unit. Navy SEAL Team 6. The same operators who killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in 2011 extracted a downed Air Force colonel from the Zagros Mountains of Iran in 2026. The parallels are exact and the differences are what matter. In 2011, 24 SEALs flew two stealth Black Hawks into Pakistan, spent 40 minutes on the ground, destroyed one crashed helicopter to protect its classified stealth modifications, and flew out with bin Laden’s body. Zero casualties. In 2026, according to the Times, hundreds of special operations troops and other military personnel, dozens of warplanes and helicopters, and the full spectrum of cyber, space, and intelligence capabilities were deployed to extract one injured weapons systems officer who had been evading capture for over 24 hours while IRGC forces and Bakhtiari tribesmen hunted him through mountains 200 miles inside Iran. The operation that killed the world’s most wanted man used two helicopters. The operation that rescued one pilot used an air armada. The WSO ejected when his F-15E was shot down on April 3, the first American combat aircraft lost in the war. He landed in the mountains of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province. He had a pistol, an encrypted beacon, and SERE training. He hiked to a 7,000-foot ridgeline, found a rock crevice, and activated his signal while Iranian state television broadcast a bounty for his capture. The CIA ran a deception campaign to misdirect Iranian search parties. Israeli intelligence provided real-time tracking of IRGC ground force movements and the Israeli Air Force halted its own strike campaign for 36 hours to create a rescue corridor. A senior US official told the Times it was “one of the most challenging and complex rescues in the history of American special operations.” The rescue force established a forward arming and refuelling point on an abandoned airstrip approximately 50 kilometres southeast of Isfahan, deep inside Iranian territory. Two MC-130J Commando II transports and associated MH-6 Little Bird helicopters landed to support the extraction. Both transports became immobilised. The operators destroyed them on the ground, detonating charges on classified avionics, communications systems, and software rather than allow the IRGC to capture American technology. Then they called for more aircraft. Three additional transports arrived under fire. SEAL Team 6 loaded the WSO and the stranded rescue team and flew out of Iran. Zero American casualties. The WSO was flown to Kuwait for treatment. The President said he “will be just fine.” In 2011, one stealth Black Hawk was destroyed to protect its secrets. In 2026, two MC-130Js and their associated rotary-wing aircraft were destroyed for the same reason. The doctrine is identical: hardware is expendable when the alternative is technology transfer to an adversary. The scale is what changed. Abbottabad was a scalpel. Dehdasht was a sledgehammer wrapped in a scalpel. The scalpel was SEAL Team 6. The sledgehammer was everything else the United States military sent into Iran to make sure the scalpel could do its work and come home. This was the first confirmed American ground operation of the 2026 Iran war. Not a missile strike. Not an air sortie. Boots on Iranian soil, weapons fired at Iranian forces, aircraft destroyed on Iranian territory, and every person who went in came out. The country that failed at Desert One in 1980 just succeeded at Dehdasht in 2026, and the unit that made the difference is the same unit that was created because Desert One failed. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86

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He climbed a ridge. That is where the story turns. When the F-15E was hit on Friday morning, both crew members ejected over the mountains of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province in southwestern Iran. The pilot was located first and extracted by HH-60 rescue helicopters within

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I asked Ben Humrichous - a former NAIA player who just competed in the Final Four - if he has an appreciation for that unlikely journey. I was moved by his answer. "When the buzzer sounded all I wanted to say was praise God - for the gift that this was... By God's grace... It's unlikely... God's sovereign hand being that in that... He did so many incredible things... God's grace just supplied what I need." @BHumrichous

🔥🚨BREAKING: University of Connecticut basketball star Terris Reed Jr. just shocked his interviewers as the UConn athlete announced: "Jesus changed everything about me, the way I talk, the way I treat other people. I’m really here to serve others."

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