the group of marines plotting slowly towards them information behind an engineer with a metal detector, a metal detector to detect minds. made sure schueman recalls of zak next action he said zack just runs through the field and tackles the guy. he not only obviated the attack, he marked a clear lane with his footprints for the marines to advance. major schueman says quote there is no other interpreted that would be willing to accept that risk. major schueman told the newspaper that zak became quote, one of my marines. eventually major thomas schueman went home, he is now at the naval war college of rhode island but zak stayed behind when the rest of the battalion left. zak was just 20 years old when he started working with the marines, he is now in his early thirties, he is not merrick has a wife and four young kids.
early this morning, quote, i do not know when they will make it on the plane. i don t know their final destination. i do know that through an enormous effort by few individuals, they won t be executed by the taliban. that s all that matters right now, he is with the marines. that post was from marine officer thomas shaman sharing the goodin ooze today that his former afghan interpreter, zak, had made it to kabul airport if you hours later we got this picture of zack and his family with caption, wheels up. it was not easy. zak waited six years for this moment since he first applied for a visit to get out. from rhode island, from all the way from afghanistan, officers truman made it his mission to help him out. joining us now is marine officer thomas truman. he s founder of the foundation that helps veteran communities across america. major truman, thank you for being with us tonight, i really
will still be able to put six family on a plane. finally, a friend who is a contractor so that he would try nascar zach through the perimeter. my friend is at a position that is currently surrounded by taliban and cannot help. zak has four children under five, his youngest daughter is one. she is in the red, sleeping on her mother natural happens next, no food, no water. she sitting outside an american access point to the kabul airport. not sure what will happen to them, i pray to god every bitter updates moral, but it does not look frothing. that s two days ago. then yesterday, major human was texting with an american on the ground. major humans on the right. he s posting in blue. that picture that you posted on the right side of the screen, that is from him. the reason that he s posting that picture is that that is a picture of exactly where zak was standing at the airport.
posted in that post is also this little video of zac s two little kids. two of zack s for young kids. then another day we get an update. zak is at the airport, china funny advocate. anybody who can escort his family to ram eight please let me know. major storm and then shared a photo of zack and his entire family. major truman saying, not the ending we hope for, they made a harrowing escape from kunar province to campbell. at 2 am he fled his tiny apartment a couple and walk to the airport, cross multiple teller and checkpoints, barely made it. i told them, meet the marines at the specific airport access point because i had confidence mission that an officer let him through. that officers no one responding to my messages. another officer told me that he would make sure that zak and his family boarded the plane was that access. he has not responded in several hours. it is highly doubtful that he
like most afghan interpreters will help u.s. troops zach and his entire family qualify to emigrate to the united states in exchange for the sacrifice they made for our country. our country created a specific visa category specifically for man like zak who helped u.s. troops so than their families who come to the united states. and zach first applied for that visa six years ago. but it hit a snag, because overall zach spent about three years working for the u.s. war effort in afghanistan, in addition for working for major schueman, he also spent time working for u.s. government contractor that was supplying translation services to the u.s. army. in order to get the visa, the special visa that was created for people like him, he needed to prove that he had worked for u.s. troops for two years or more, in order to do that he needed a letter from everybody he worked for including that contractor who set him up to translate for the u.s. army.