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US Jets Shot Down For First Time In Two Decades As Air War Enters New Phase

Breaking a two-decade streak is genuinely wild. We’re literally living through the bolded vocab words of a future AP History textbook right now. The reality check just hit way too hard. The recent downing of US military jets in Iran marks the first time such an event has occurred due to enemy fire in over twenty years, a fact that has sent ripples of shock and reflection across many. This extended period of relative air invulnerability had lulled many into a sense of unquestioned dominance, a perception now starkly challenged.

How could this happen! A lot of people forget that there are active duty troops serving right now who weren’t even born the last time a US jet was taken down by enemy fire.… Continue reading