@ArmyE0D@Asst_to_the_RM All the flying squadron were the same. Honestly my last base was moving back to unit heritage bars instead of the club. My PA shop had a beer light that was turned on at 3 pm on Fridays and was designated as a heritage bar. It was my parting gift to my troops when I retired.
@ArmyE0D@Asst_to_the_RM When those went away the so did the camaraderie, the feeling of family. My last 10 years the job was great, but people were so disconnected, especially between units, shops, etc. People stopped spending time together. And it really hurt morale.
@TedEdson1@realDrewMullins Traitors aren't veterans. They are traitors. Trump supporters are no different than those who faught for the South in the civil war, or the liberals who defended the VC instead American troops.
@TheIOGuy@ArmyMudPuppy Well we have a pedo in the white house, and no one is doing anything about it, guess I don't care what bad decisions some NCO is making in his off time.
Lots on this app over the last day about what Gen. Chris Donahue did and did not do during the evacuation of Afghanistan. A lot of it is unmoored from the facts.
A few truths:
1) Secretary Hegseth is free to choose the commanders he wants, by statute and tradition.
2) Donahue's contributions to the U.S. military and nation are significant, whether Hegseth chooses him for another assignment or not.
3) Donahue was deployed to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul -- not Bagram Airfield -- only *after* Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. The Taliban seized power Aug. 15, 2021. He learned he was deploying on the 16th and arrived on the 18th with the airfield still in disarray.
4) Have attached some passages from his interview with military investigators that October. Donahue said then that what he saw when he arrived in Kabul was "all very unacceptable to me" and that he was "jacking people up" trying to get order.
He also recalled threatening Taliban officials that if they fought American troops during the evacuation "we would be able to kill more of them than they could ever hope to kill of us."
Donahue added: "The first 3 days we did not really sleep. I told our surgeon that we needed to prepare for a mass casualty event."
The assessment of many informed people was that the troops on the ground were thrust into an untenable situation and scrambled to get control. The Afghan government and the Biden administration lost control of the situation and the U.S. military scrambled to restore order.
@Rank1Apples They do it with or without labels. Like bullies whose parents and classmates failed to punch in the mouth. Racists MAGA cucks don't stop being racist MAGA cucks just because liberals, libertarians, and independents are "nice" to them.