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Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Rebecca Kesby.
We got him the message on social media from President Trump earlier announcing the safe recovery
of the second airman shot down over Iran on Friday.
Mr Trump described the action as one of the most daring search and rescue operations in US history.
We'll look at how US forces managed to find and extract the servicemen in a moment.
First though, retired US Navy Admiral William Fallon gave us his reaction.
To the operation's apparent success.
This is great news.
It shows the value of perseverance in these things.
You just never give up.
You keep trying.
It appears they must have had a pretty good idea of where the individual was.
And so in typical circumstances, in a two-seat airplane, the two are not that far apart when you get on the ground.
I think the other thing that's probably.
Played favorably into this is the time of day.
So darkness is better for our people because they're used to operating at night.
It 's typically an advantage to us because our people are equipped with night vision devices
that the other side probably does n't have.