When the active-duty Air Force and Missouri Air National Guard bomber crews who attacked the Fordow uranium enrichment plant in Iran went to work last Friday, they kissed their loved ones goodbye, not knowing when or if they'd be home. That's when their families became aware something was happening.

"When those jets returned from Whiteman on Sunday, their families were waiting, flying American flags and shedding tears of pride and relief," Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said this week.

The jets rejoined into a formation of four, pitching out to land right over the base -- a landing Caine said was greeted by incredible cheers and tears from the families who sacrifice and serve right alongside the pilots.

"One commander told me this is a moment in the lives of our families that they will never forget," Caine said at a press conference Thursday at the Pentagon. "That, my friends, is what America's joint force does. We think, we develop, we train, we rehearse, we test, we evaluate every single day. And when the call comes to deliver, we do so."

It was a moment of consequence, excellence, leadership and guts.

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