Afghan withdrawal over 4 years

On the occasion of the four -year anniversary of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan – and the bombing of the abbey who killed 13 members of the American service – veterans who risked their lives to save civilians trapped in Kabul is expressed now.

Dennis Price, a veteran of special forces (SOF) and founder of “Heroes for Humanity”, worked to save a lot trapped in the territory newly controlled by Taliban.

“On the occasion of this four -year anniversary of the Afghan disastrous withdrawal made by the previous administration, we remember a failure that will haunt thousands of people,” said Price.

“Their stories are written in the blood and will go out forever into history as such. The administration has abandoned our allies and left chaos behind. When the government failed in Afghanistan, the Patriotes have brought the weight.”

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During the time for the official withdrawal of the United States, the Price group helped its first double-quote civil family in the province of Kandahar and Kabul, where the flights left.

This family crossed Abbey Gate 45 minutes before she breathes, Price said:

“Really, by the grace of God.”

Once Price was able to install his organization in the region, he joined another veteran, withdrawn Recognized Force Chad Robichaux, while traveling deeper in Taliban territory. They made risky swimming through the Panjshir river between Tajikistan and Afghanistan to avoid terrorist control points; To save Arabic-English performers left on behalf of.

“It changed my life.”

“Systems have failed, but people help people are the greatest gift in humanity,” said Price.

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Robichaux said that despite the greatest civil rescue – more than 17,000 people in 10 days – those left behind “still weigh”.

“It seems that yesterday and was an honor to stand alongside so many incredible Americans who worked tirelessly to evacuate as much as possible, because our White House abandoned the Americans and the allies while putting our courageous troops in danger unnecessarily,” he said.

The retired navy Mark “Oz” Geist also volunteered to try to get the Americans out of an Afghanistan who collapses. Geist survived the headquarters of Benghazi 2012 as a CIA entrepreneur, an attack which led to the Secretary of State of the time, Hillary Clinton.

In Kabul, said Geist, the public witnessed “the best and the worst of humanity”.

The Geist group, Shadow Warriors Project, relied on the expertise and strategy of veterans for a mission that has chartered a jet to bring 100 Americans and legal non-citizens to the United States, including 59 children.

“We saw 13 of our own lives, and hundreds of Afghans were left in chaos. I carry the faces of Afghan women that we were able to save, and I carry the faces of those we could not,” said Geist.

“The withdrawal was not only a moment – it was an injury. But birthdays like this remind us that the sacrifice requires the memory, and the memory requires action. We owe it to those who have fallen and to those who always live in the shadow of tyranny, to never look away, never to forget and never stop fighting for freedom.”

Benghazi Mark Geist’s hero attended a Nascar race in 2015. (Reuters)

Geist said he had great confidence in the defense secretary Pete Hegseth to continue investigating Pentagon’s failures during the 2021 withdrawal.

“Honor requires nothing less.”

A retired Navy Seal, Jason Redman, was a member of what he and his veterinary colleagues nicknamed “Task Force Pineapple”.

Directed by Scott Mann – A retired green beret – Pineapple appeared as a visual password recorded on the telephones used by the group to safely transport hundreds of interpreters and Afghan families through areas controlled by the Taliban until they can reach Hamid Karzai international airport – in a similar construction to the railway.

“This Herculean effort was made by all volunteers, mainly veterans of special operations, intelligence analysts and government civilians,” he said, adding that pineapple worked with the Biden Department of State – which he described as “completely useless” – while remaining a civil operation.

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The Afghans celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of Afghanistan. (Images Bilal Guller / Getty)

“(IT) was a network of citizens -liaison focused on work with (Pentagon) – only marginally better (than the misty background) to help honor the promise of facilitating, reinstallation and safe reintegration by taking advantage of our relationships in the world,” said Redman.

“If anything, September 11 and the fall of Afghanistan showed that freedom is precious. It must be protected and preserved – for the rights of all – not just those you love or accept,” said Redman.

Although he is not directly associated with the operations of Robichaux or Mann, the representative Cory Mills, r-fla., Relied on his experience in the army and as a defense entrepreneur to carry out his own operation after the fall of Kabul.

Mills helped save the Americans, including a family initially blocked by a Taliban checkpoint, to which he told Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends at the time.

Mills – So not yet legislative – worked with representative Ronny Jackson, R -Texas and Senator Markwayne Mullin, R -Okla., To try coordination with the authorities, which he indicated later was problematic.

“I saw the failures of weak leadership that ignored critical and abandoned our people in the first hand,” Mills told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.

“Thank goodness, we now have a strong first leader in America: President Donald Trump, and the defense secretary Pete Hegseth – a leader who includes warrior ethics, whose investigation into the abbey tragedy is an important step towards justice and the responsibility of our 13 heroes,” said Mills.

“It is also an important part of the reconstruction of the strength of America on the world scene.”

Fox News Digital contacted the representatives of former president Joe Biden to comment but did not hear at the time of the press.

Emma Colton of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.