you need an ecolab scientific clean here. and here. which is why the scientific expertise that helps operating rooms stay clean now helps the places you go too. look for the ecolab science certified seal. repeating our breaking news tonight. america s ended its 20-year in afghanistan. the last the last c-17 left canel just before maidnight there. staff sergeant ryan knausse was 23 years old when he died along with 12 other american service members. he was assigned to the army special operations forces psychological operations unit.
those barest of brief biographical details, of course, don t tell you nearly enough about who he was and what he was like. well, just before air time, i spoke to his wife, alina, about ryan s life and service. alina, thank you so much for joining us. i am so sorry for for your loss. um, how are you holding up? i know grieving is a different process for everyone so as well as i can be, at the moment. what was ryan like? um, i think the word that has been most commonly used these past few days is very charismatic. um, there s not we don t have the time, you know, to to talk about every, little thing about him. and i wish we did because i wish i could give that little bit of him to people because he was just wonderful. through and through, he was one
i thought he should have done, you know, he could he was one of those people. he was just so brilliant. he could have done whatever he wanted but he wanted to serve his country. and he did. and it was so fulfilling for him. and, you know, he went through so many different mos changes and finding out his niche and he really did, in the end, there with psychological operations because he was fulfilling his role in its fullest capacity. he was brilliant and he was using every capability he had to help people. when you heard that there had been an attack, initially the reporting was that it was marines and a navy corpsman. did you feel did you you didn t know, initially, that he had been in the in the attack? correct. his mom called, and she said, alina, you know, i m worried about ryan. have you heard anything from him? and i was like, no. i m i m i haven t. you know, but he s working and i will i ll reach out to him.