Ladies and Gentlemen...I present the very picture of command and competency. Secretary of Defense Austin.
Afganastan
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How many taliban fighters and terrorists will slip through the hurried vetting process during this debacle and will eventually blow buildings up and kill masses amounts of our citizens in the future. With the open border in the south and millions of illegal immigrants over the past 10 to 14 years already here I’d say under this administration we’re about as vulnerable as we ever have been.
How many taliban fighters and terrorists will slip through the hurried vetting process during this debacle and will eventually blow buildings up and kill masses amounts of our citizens in the future. With the open border in the south and millions of illegal immigrants over the past 10 to 14 years already here I’d say under this administration we’re about as vulnerable as we ever have been.
I consider this whole mess as a covert operation by those that wish to bring harm to our nation, whether they are domestic enemies or whatever. I recommend to those I care about to stay extremely vigilant until further notice. I do not expect things to get any better for quite sometime.
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2001, 2004, 2009-10, 2012 this particular team I worked with is prolly all dead now... reached out ... Dead Air.
I remember the kids... kids are kids - We'd saddle up and go out to meet / work with the local chiefs and security would setup - took this pic the kids were just like - automatic weapons - they grew up with them.
On another tour we embedded with DEA and some other agency folks, we'd be rolling across the country security was us in a hurry... but the kids would see us coming and run up way out in indian country, they'd hesitate about 100 yards off - until we opened the armored doors of the up armored SUV's/ show our pale or black faces and here'd they come at a sprint. When we'd roll into a FOB for the night we'd load up on the power bars and stuff to hand out.
The reason they'd hold up is the Tali would get SUV's roll and stop and if the kids ran up to get a handout from the "foreigners" - they'd shoot the kids.
We'd setup and the kids would roll-in. Our 'terp would ask them to give us a local folk song for the snacks. This lil' girl did this for an hour or more - lots of fun and good vibs. It's in Pashto and no subtitles LoL.. these are the people we helped protect and try and give a better life for over 20 years...
.No. not the war the people maybe. Okay one.
Me getting Medivac'd out on a KC-135 to Landstuhl ... 2009, great medical professionals after much unpleasantness.
took about three weeks to get better and cleared for duty and back in the game.
in Feb Dad died in South FL, walked out of the trailer he and mom snowbirded in and just checked out on the front lawn, a month after I got back downrange from the Medivac.
Then, literally on my way out, leaving Afghanistan at the end of my third tour on 18 May there another VBID detonated on a separate convoy route, while we were in convoy from the FOB to KIA (Kabul International Airport). IT was close enough you Felt the shock wave from a mile+ away. That one killed a Army 0-6 and four other soldiers and a Canadian 0-6 and lots of civilians - our convoy was the closest and so we went to help provide security until the QRF showed up to take control. F'ng mess... https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/world/asia/19afghan.html
We get to KIA, catch a 130 to Bagram, out process and get to the holding pen late afternoon frazzled but good to go, going thru the out prcossing until about midnight and planes gotta a ETA of 0230 or so. Thinking that's got to be it right, on the way out of that place. Plane gets delayed 'cause of the VBID and mass causites that need to Medivac'd out so now it's about 0330-0400 been up since yesterday getting my shit stowed and last min duties turned over to my team etc...
0345 Ka-Boom, x 3 or 4 Ka-Boom's as sappers blew up the outer gate/ wall and got into a stiff firefight about 1000 meters from us. the QRF goes into action and this video is my narrating the scene, gunship dropping 30mm casing and clips ALL OVER the tarmac, f-15E stacked just above it and a predator above them - shitty video but it's what I had, first light at about 0430.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/ter...kills-US-contractor-wounds-nine-NATO-soldiers
Well they got repelled but in that soup the base thought they got some in. Wearing US Army uniforms and suicide vests so it was tense for a couple hours... but then the all clear. The QRF followed the sappers and -of course- they lead them into a minefield. So five soldiers got blown up, two were triple amputees. Everyone that wasn't on duty got called out for a FOD walk and now it's late morning towards midday, the first and only plane on the stick leaving that day was the medivac bird with the two triple amputees and others from the VBID yesterday - not a wink since up the day before. They the 8 or litter patients uploaded and bring us in, sitting in the side rigging, litters in the middle bay area... I'm watching one leg bandage still dripping blood...
The crew chief comes back, I'm the only 0-6 so he asks if I'ld like to roll up (Go up to the C-17 cockpit), they are configured to have 4 actual seats up there for long duration flights and extra pilots.
Me leaving on the C-17 medivac bird that afternoon 19 May... 32 or so hours after my day started. My last long day in Afghanistan on my last tour - the 2012 was just month or so... RHIP - so I got up in the catbird seat of the C-17... Just damnitall Afghanistan the lack of political leadership to disengage from contact with respect.
I've never shared that - those pics except with my team and some family. A jumble of emotions and a gut feeling we'll see more of the bearded fellows over the next decade.
I re-looked at this and don't want to end on a negative, the country was harsh but beautiful... the Hindu Kush was extraordinary, many Afghanies I met and befriended were solid, good people. I took this one out the porthole of a Australian C-130 and think it's one of my personal favorites that I've captured in my life over the edge of the Kush and Himalayan foothills... ... just jaw dropping outdoor ruggedness.
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My youngest brother served several tours over there as well. His last oversea tour was in Afghanistan, 24 years altogether as an active member...
I appreciate your service and sharing with us, thank you!
I appreciate your service and sharing with us, thank you!
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If only it were possible to put Milley against a wall and relieve him of command...
Really, I couldn't view it without having to log in. Anyways, J got me taken care of, thanks!
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I appreciate you sharing that bud.