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Air Force’s last serving POW retires
23rd Wing
Video by Senior Airman Hayden Legg
June 6, 2021 | 0:47
“I thought to myself ‘this is it - I’m a dead man.’”

As Lt. Col. Rob Sweet, the last serving Air Force prisoner of war, approached retirement on June 6, he recalled the moment during Operation Desert Storm when his A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft was shot down by enemy forces southwest of Basra, Iraq.
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