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The U.S. military continued to search for a missing American airman on Saturday after an F-15E fighter jet was shot down over southwestern Iran.
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The war in Iran enters its 6th week as the search continues for the missing U.S. service member who bailed out of a fighter jet shot down over Iran on Friday.
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WASHINGTON — Less than 48 hours after President Donald Trump told Americans the U.S. military had "beaten and completely decimated Iran," Tehran shot down an F-15E fighter jet, setting off a high-risk scramble by U.S. forces to rescue two service members from deep inside Iranian territory.
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A U.S. official confirmed that another aircraft was shot down by Iranian fire after an F-15E was downed earlier in the day. The single-pilot aircraft was an A-10 Thunderbolt, known as a Warthog, the official said. NBC News' Courtney Kube reports on the latest news coming out of the Pentagon.
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It's the first known loss of an American aircraft inside Iranian territory since the war began a month ago.
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Iran has sent waves of missiles and drones at Israel and Gulf states in recent weeks and shot down an American fighter jet on Friday.
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Ronald Young Jr. was in the Army when his Apache Longbow copter went down during the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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An American fighter jet appears to have been shot down by Iran. A search and rescue is underway, a U.S. official said.
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