President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One before departing from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on his way to Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Feb. 13, 2026. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump said that U.S. military pilots were “hit pretty bad in the legs” during a mission last month in Venezuela that led to the capture of the South American nation’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.
While speaking at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Feb. 13, Trump said that three helicopter pilots were wounded amid gunfire, praising them as “really brave.”
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