Philip Borkholder↖️

Visual FoxPro Developer 🦊 , Long Distance Motorcycle Rider 🏍 , Venison Enthusiast, Play Tin Whistle & Saxophone 🎷, Actor 🎭 and singer 🎶 .

[Philip Borkholder↖️ @PLBorkholder]

Crisp morning in MI. In the midst of a pandemic and political turmoil, nature seems to provide peaceful moments to recharge. ☮️

[Philip Borkholder↖️ @PLBorkholder]

@doctor_rahmeh @mohamedhemish It’s time the world holds the criminal IDF and <NetanYahoo> govt accountable for their crimes. Enough is enough !!

[Philip Borkholder↖️ @PLBorkholder]

@koch_renee @GBX_Press Renee, seriously, stop embarrassing yourself with such stupid comments.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Trump has insulted and tariffed his European allies, persuaded Denmark to prepare for a US invasion and, by pressuring Ukraine and not Russia, encouraged Putin to keep fighting. All of which he has forgotten.
https://t.co/GhDO27FyxK

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

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 hours, under small arms fire that wounded crew aboard the recovery aircraft. The weapons systems officer landed deeper in hostile terrain. He was alone on the ground in a country where state television was broadcasting a bounty for his capture and Basij militia were flooding the mountain roads below.

According to reports now confirmed by Fox News citing two senior US officials, the WSO used his SERE training, the survival, evasion, resistance, and escape doctrine drilled into every American combat aircrew. He moved on foot through rugged terrain. He climbed to an elevated ridge near the city of Dehdasht. He activated his encrypted emergency beacon. And he waited.

The beacon was the thread. Everything that followed pulled on it.

US Joint Special Operations Command launched a night extraction package. Reports indicate Delta Force operators and Pararescuemen from the 24th Special Tactics Squadron inserted via helicopters from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the Night Stalkers, the unit that flew the Bin Laden raid. A-10 Warthogs from the 355th Wing provided close air support, running gun passes on IRGC and Basij convoys advancing toward the WSO’s position. HC-130J tankers kept the package airborne. Multiple aircraft were dispatched to establish a temporary fire zone around Dehdasht, a no-entry perimeter enforced with precision strikes on a telecommunications tower and approaching vehicles. Iranian local officials reported at least four killed and several wounded from the strikes.

Then the operation went sideways. According to reports corroborated by Fox News’s confirmation that US forces destroyed “aircraft which have sensitive equipment,” two C-130 transports landed at a remote forward arming and refuelling point inside Iran to support the extraction. Both became stuck. Rather than allow the aircraft and their classified systems to fall into IRGC hands, American forces destroyed both planes on the ground. The deliberate destruction of two US military aircraft inside Iran to deny equipment to the enemy is the detail that separates a clean extraction from an operation that nearly failed before it succeeded.

Additional transports arrived under A-10 cover. The Delta operators and Pararescuemen who were now themselves stranded at the destroyed landing zone loaded the WSO and extracted under ongoing fire. Fox News reported that the WSO “and the members of the rescue team are all safely out of Iran.” Zero American casualties.

Desert One in 1980 ended when a helicopter collided with a C-130 on a remote Iranian airstrip, killing eight Americans before the mission reached Tehran. Forty-six years later, C-130s were destroyed on Iranian soil again. This time the destruction was deliberate. This time the team got out. This time the man they came for came with them.

The operation confirms two truths that cannot be separated. American special operations forces can penetrate, fight inside, and extract from Iran. And the war that was supposed to be over required the most elite soldiers in the US military to fight a ground battle in Iranian mountains to recover one man from a country with no air defences. Both statements are true. The rescue proves American capability. The need for the rescue proves Iranian capability. And the 48-hour countdown is still running.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Philip Borkholder↖️ @PLBorkholder]

@Grunt2A @RadioFreeTom 🤣

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@CMDROpAtLargeCA @JohnMitnick Then it’s a simple lookup for this truth:

https://t.co/MRLcp2WG3f

[Philip Borkholder↖️ @PLBorkholder]

@CMDROpAtLargeCA @JohnMitnick Well that says more about you than him little man. Resign now and stop killing and embarrassing America.

[Rayan Amiri @realRayanAmiri]

🚨 BREAKING:

Just now in Iran’s capital, Tehran, in Tehransar area, pro–Reza-Shah-Pahlavi youth have taken to the streets, claiming public spaces, chanting “Death to Khamenei” & “Death to the Dictator.”

This is the historic rise of the Iranian nation. They deserve your support.

[Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری 🇮🇷 @gghamari]

The Lion of Iran has awakened.

Iranians are rejecting Islam, the Islamic Republic, and Sharia Law en masse.

I've never been more proud to be Iranian.

❤️

[Philip Borkholder↖️ @PLBorkholder]

@AlanDersh Alan, you have the right to remain silent…

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@BuzzJackson @AP You’d think

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@mjfree Elon

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@LEWilson71 @maddenifico North Korea is a Republic too, genius.
What differentiates our Republic from NK?
We are a democratic republic…
Getting a good education is always important , please take a civics class.

[totinho @Totinhiiio]

Why are we spending billions flying stealth jets out of Puerto Rico while the island still has neighborhoods without steady power seven years after Maria? Marines look sharp, planes are impressive, but every hour that F-35 burns in training costs more than rebuilding a hundred homes. We can defend the nation without turning U.S. citizens’ backyard into a permanent war game stage while their basic needs wait. Priorities feel upside down when jets get fuel faster than people get lights.

[Philip Borkholder↖️ @PLBorkholder]

@Matt_Pinner I’m, because she can. She is her own boss.

[Philip Borkholder↖️ @PLBorkholder]

@vallesanandres @MeachamDr Wrong. If you watch the video, this is after the guy was carefully laid to the floor and the others helped him. Trump was staring at them when it all happened with zero emotion, then turned and faced forward to this position.
Stone cold narcissist.

[Philip Borkholder↖️ @PLBorkholder]

@StephenM It’s called states’ rights.

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@TigTiegen @PeteHegseth Well ok then “Tig”.
Make sure it doesn’t happen here !

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@ExuCaverinha33 @DavidJo70430257 @msmarysopinions =“I feel that Amish….”

[Philip Borkholder↖️ @PLBorkholder]

@Tim_The_Sandman @davidhogg111 In fact, based on the founding principles of our country where we allow freedom of ideas in politics , it would be anti-American to deem persons as “evil” just because they differ from our own political view.

[Philip Borkholder↖️ @PLBorkholder]

@Tim_The_Sandman @davidhogg111 Oh boy, you just keep jabbing don’t you… an expert troll.
So how about to be patriotic we care about our other citizens and use the term “evil” very sparingly rather than ignorantly label whole groups based on their politics.