After the United States withdrew military troops from Afghanistan in 2021, a retired Marine was determined to repay the debt and rescue a colleague he considered family.
The Feds have dropped criminal charges against an Afghan soldier who has been held in U.S. custody since September after attempting to cross the United States' southern border. The soldier is Abdul Wasi Safi who worked directly with U.S. Special Forces but was left behind during the evacuation and h
that included the deaths of 13 u.s. service members from a terrorist bombing of the kabul airport. let s bring in the author of the new book saving aziz marine veteran chad and retired army lieutenant colonel daniel davis. gentlemen, thank you. welcome, both. chad, you wrote in an op ed earlier this week in part, quoting here, while our team tried to pick up the slack for the government s evacuation failures, our own state department seemed to sabotage our rescue efforts by dragging their feet and hog tying us with bureaucratic red tape. it was as though they had decided if they couldn t save everyone, then they would make sure no one could. you believe the state department hindered the process of getting people out. fair? absolutely, yes! and not only that, from the very beginning, you know, the white house took the neo operation, a noncombatant evacuation operation away from the d.o.d. which is their rightful place for the job and gave it to the