A second United States Air Force combat aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday as rescue teams continued searching for a missing crew member from a downed F-15E Strike Eagle, according to two U.S. officials cited by The New York Times.

The second aircraft, an A-10 Thunderbolt II, went down near the Strait of Hormuz, and its pilot was safely rescued, the officials said.

The crash occurred around the same time that an F-15E was shot down over Iran, where one crew member has already been recovered and search teams continue looking for the second.

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    16 hours ago

    America’s obsession with its military and, by extension, ‘democratizing’ countries is very similar to that of Ancient Rome and how it went about ‘civilizing’ other cultures.

    Which is to say, we have yet to find a Caesar to march on Washington.