anywhere at any time. he was a talented, tough guy. chris was in the national guard. he was also a volunteer police officer, and everything he did, he thought about how he could serve god, serve his family and serve his country. in 2011, he deployed for the first time to afghanistan. chris knew his job was one of the most dangerous there was. but he was determined to go after the enemy at any cost to himself. his mission, to help target and kill terrorists that sought to destroyed innocent people. in his first deployment, chris was near the pakistan border
wife. she sent an e-mail out yesterday talking about how honoring the fallen means, having the strategy for afghanistan. we talked about this a lot. this is a president who is has inherited a war in afghanistan, a war against isis in syria. now we have troops fighting in yemen and seals in somalia, yet this is a president that ran on the principle of america disengaging. yeah. if you re someone that lost a loved one in battle or someone to this day that has people in harm s way, having a strategy is not just a talking point in the halls of congress. what is the president s strategy? whether it s obama, trump or anybody else, the presence or absence of a good strategy can mean difference of life and death for the person you love that is something that our military leadership is mindful of. if we re putting people in a
hardships, but he and his incredible wife, karen, have borne the single most difficult hardship of them all. the loss of their son, robert, in service to our country. robert died fighting the enemies of all civilizations in afghanistan. to john, kerry, heather, kate, andrea and the entire kelly family, today 300 million american hearts are joined together with yours. we grieve with you. we honor you. we pledge to you that we will always remember robert and what he did for all of us. thank you. [applause]
afghanistan. november 3, he was one of ten special forces operators, to land by helicopter near a taliban safe haven in northern afghanistan. they trekked through a mile of waist-deep mud and climbed steep cliffs before finally reaching the village that they wanted to reach. there a night s long battle ensued. andrew and his team fought off wave after wave of enemy fighters. a grenade detonated and as the taliban began to surround the americans and afghan forces, andrew ran through the smoke and through the hail of bullets to rescue an afghan soldier. in the midst of this torrent of gun fire and danger, andrew
ten special forces operators to land by helicopter near a taliban safe haven in northern afghanistan. they trekked through a mile of waist deep mud, and climbed steep before finally reaching the village that they wanted to reach. there, a night-long battle ensued. andrew and his team fought off wave after wave after wave of enemy fighters. a grenade detonated, and as the taliban began to surround the americans, and afghan forces, andrew ran through the smoke and through the hail of bullets, to rescue an afghan soldier. in the midst of this torrent of gunfire and danger, andrew worked heroically to open a