Air Force rescue crews were short on pilots for mission at sea

After pulling off a major open-ocean rescue hundreds of miles off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California, two U.S. Air Force helicopters landed at a Mexican airport last week on the mission’s return leg. But as the Arizona-based crews rested and slept after a grueling 12 hours of flying, a wave of online rumors and misinformation erupted around their arrival.

By morning, the…