The pilots who flew into Iran on a mission to bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities will join President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The B-2 pilots will be in attendance on Friday at the White House Fourth of July celebrations, two White House officials shared with The Daily Wire. The White House celebration will also include a flyover by B-2 Spirit bombers, the jets that conducted the strikes on Iran earlier this month in Operation Midnight Hammer, according to CBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed in a statement<\/a> that the president \u201clooks forward to celebrating our nation\u2019s founding on Friday in the nation\u2019s capital.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo join in the celebration, the might of America\u2019s Air Force will conduct a flyover featuring our state-of-the-art F-22s, B-2s, and F-35s \u2013 the same air capabilities used for the decisive and successful strikes on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities,\u201d Leavitt added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Trump is expected to speak at the event, and additional personnel from the base where the bombers were based (Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri) will attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During an interview on \u201cSunday Morning Futures,\u201d Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo discussed<\/a> the \u201ccourageous\u201d pilots with Trump, and asked the president if he planned to honor them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYes, they\u2019re going to come to the White House,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut what you said is right. These people flew 36 hours in a small space, a big plane, but a small spaces mostly occupied by bombs, and they flew so brilliantly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey hit a target the size of this circle \u2026 a little target, they say half the size of a refrigerator door from 50,000 feet up in the air,\u201d he added. \u201cGoing at a rapid speed, because they\u2019re going very fast when they\u2019re over a pretty rough territory. And they hit it every single time. And then they knocked out two other sites aside from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
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