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The U.S. military is in a race against time to find an airman who was in a F-15E Strike Eagle when it appears to have been shot down by Iran, according to a U.S. official. A second airman was rescued alive and taken out of the country for medical treatment, according to the official. NBC News' Courtney Kube reports.
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An F-15E Strike Eagle was lost to enemy fire and an A-10 Warthog crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, officials said. A rescue helicopter was also fired upon.
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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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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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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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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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