
After repeatedly telling the public that Iran’s military had been “completely decimated,” Donald Trump spent this weekend discovering that Iran apparently didn’t get the memo.
On Friday, an F-15E Strike Eagle went down in southern Iran, sending rescue crews scrambling in a desperate, long-hours search to find the two pilots. Then an A-10 Thunderbolt II, deployed to provide cover for those rescuers near the Strait of Hormuz, took a hit from Iranian air defenses, forcing its pilot to eject before the aircraft crashed in Kuwait.