WASHINGTON — While briefing the public on how a rescue operation for a downed F-15 pilot in Iran played out, President Donald Trump made sure to shout out a specific part of America’s arsenal: the HH-60W, the US Air Force’s latest combat rescue helicopter.
Trump called the Jolly Green II a “fabulous machine” during a Monday presser, adding that the operation was “amazing.” An Air Force spokesperson told Breaking Defense that this was the first time the helicopter was used in combat to retrieve an operator behind enemy lines, although the rotorcraft has been used in “civil rescues and completed casualty evacuations in deployed environments” previously.
It is a bit of strong publicity for the Jolly Green II. And it came just days after the US Air…
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