those left behind are not being well served and they may soon be in a hellscape of oppression. now, sarah s fate is in part in the hands of the two veterans you re about to meet. they are doing everything they can and working with a lot of other people. i promise you they won t want to take credit for anything. and that they know what is going on and they know the challenges. the first is sam rogers, a three-tour afghan war vet, former army intel officer, and trying to help those still stuck to get out sarah being one of them. coalition director of the concerned veterans for america foundation. also, racing to save lives, retired lieutenant colonel dan wilson working with the save, settle, support initiative. gentlemen, first thank you for your service. and, two, thank you for stepping up right now. sam, let me start with you. we haven t been able to reach sarah. you say that may not be scary information. that may be part of the plan for
only met as part of this process. we re doing it because it has to be done because the mission is not over until our american citizens and their families and our allies have been brought back. one quick follow and then to colonel wilson. so sarah is in a safe place. is she on her way out of the country? did she get to bring any of the people with her? so, chris, we hope to have her on her way out of the country in the next couple days. you know, we would not have been able to do this without some of these great organizations like allied extract.org run by another combat veteran of afghanistan gunny denning, purple heart recipient, valor award recipient. these guys have financed this stuff essentially on their own personal credit card debt to
why is the digital dunkirk you may have heard about online, this ad hoc network of veterans and allies needing to do so much? tonight you ll hear from men who served the country and now say those left behind are not being well served and they may soon be in a hellscape of oppression. now, sarah s fate is in part in the hands of the two veterans you re about to meet. they are doing everything they can and working with a lot of other people. i promise you they won t want to take credit for anything. and that they know what is going on and they know the challenges. the first is sam rogers, a three-tour afghan war vet, former army intel officer, and trying to help those still stuck to get out sarah being one of them. coalition director of the concerned veterans for america foundation. also, racing to save lives, retired lieutenant colonel dan wilson working with the save, settle, support initiative. gentlemen, first thank you for your service. and, two, thank you for stepping up right now.
we haven t been able to reach sarah. you say that may not be scary information. that may be part of the plan for her. what do you understand the plan to be? absolutely. thanks so much for having me on, chris. i am very pleased to report we ve gotten sarah to a safe place where she s got her phone off to avoid additional scrutiny for folks who might be looking for american citizens or former translators. you know, my day job i didn t really expect to find myself here, my day job with concerned vets for america foundation has been educating wisconsin communities on this refugee issue, why it is important to veterans, running care package collection for folks coming to wisconsin, and focusing on veterans mental health in the midst of this crisis and the end of this conflict. and so to find myself now moonlighting an additional 70 hours a week at night in my former role as an intelligence officer, i have essentially i don t work for an organization. i ve just been pulled in by guys an
charter buses and planes and to connect folks and get money to folks so they can get out of country. i ll put all the organizations we re talking about tonight on my social media and the same in the hand-off at the end of the show. but do you know if sarah is alone or got to take any kids or people with her? oh, she is absolutely with her kids. oh, great. great. we re going to do absolutely every single thing we can in our power to get them home. i ll do all the updates on the show as you want. that is great news. i m not feigning knowing that. that is great news. colonel, why are you guys doing this? why are there all these ngos and veterans and digital dunkirk and jumping in? why are you guys having to do this? chris, thanks for being a voice for us and letting us share our story tonight. the reason why we are doing this and i think there was a wall street journal reporter on