Posted on 08/28/2021 12:39:45 PM PDT by GeorgianaCavendish
I apologize if this has been addressed through a news source, or on the forum earlier.
I am a Navy veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and I served in two deployments to the Middle East on a ship. I make no claims about my knowledge of the Marines, the army, or the Air Force, or those things outside of what I did as a sailor. But there are some things about Afganstan that are nagging my mind; news reports just aren't making sense.
When I first got out of the Navy, one of the questions that the VA kept asking me about is whether I been around burn pits. Anybody who has served knows that we burn everything, even things that are environmentally hazardous. Many veterans have said that the burn pits will be the equivalent of agent Orange of the Vietnam era. The Navy either melts it, burns it, or throws it in the ocean. Deposing of trash, Noforn, or confidential material is remembered by every young member of the military because the destruction of it is left to NUBs (new underway buddies). No high-level enlisted or officer ever deals with this taking the trash out, but if you were one of those idiots who didn't dispose of it properly, be sure that you were going to get your ass reamed, and possibly masted (NJP'd) because you let confidential material go. It was so important that we had to write at the top and bottom of every paper in Nuke School, Noforn or Confidential. Commanders have stamps upon stamps of the words. Everybody from the bottom to the top knows that they have a duty to make sure that this information doesn't get out to the public or to unsavory sources.
If the order was to abandoned the base in Afganstan, why were things like confidential and secret information, in paper or server form, left behind? EVERYBODY AND I MEAN EVERYBODY KNOWS NOT TO DO THAT.
Why was the base left first, knowingly as part of "the plan", with guns, munitions, planes, etc, still on the ground? On the way back from the last deployment of the USS Enterprise CVN 65, we were throwing file cabinets, desks, and all sorts of things into the ocean, as part of the plan to take apart the Enterprise before decommissioning. This was part of the plan, made years in advance, FROM THE TOP to deal with this.
I know the Bite-me administration is filled with morons, but every person who has served in the military knows how these things go and clearly leaving Afghanistan was not under the typical plan. But the Commanders know. All of them. Civilian military, CIA, Intel, contractors, KNOW this. Even film makers and tv show directors include this aspect of the military in their programs. Why didn't anyone take care of this is EVERYONE knows.
Can anyone (particularly those who have served in OEF or IF, Afganstan) tell me if they have been thinking about this? Or if I'm wrong about my details? Was it such a clusterF--k that it just happened this way?
Because Q.
Trust the PLAN.
I was never able to serve, but I am interested in the replies to your question.
IMIO, it was all done purposely. They MEANT for the Taliban/enemy to have that info. I guess they COULD all
all be that ignorant of protocols...doubt it.
Many think it was not done poorly out of stupidity but because it’s a deliberate move to weaken us vis a vis China.
The simplest explanation is often the most accurate. In this case, The Chinese own the leadership in this country. (military inculded) This cluster f... is on purpose to demoralize the military and humiliate this country to show the world who the new boss is now.
Its as though Lincoln after the disaster at Chancellorsville, decided not to fire Hooker and kept him on as commanding general of the Army of the Potomac before replacing him with Meade, who won Gettysburg, and Grant after Vicksburg. Instead we have CRT fan Millie, who favored giving up Bagram, testified Kabul had months, and is an all around political general and general incompetent.
The problem is that you’re looking at from the perspective of being on America’s side. The Chinese own Biden. Everything in Afghanistan looks pretty rosy for them.
Because this government is an enemy of the United States.
That is what it seems.
This thread may answer that question.
Brian Kennedy of the Claremont Institute states that the administration’s Afghanistan move “WAS DONE ON PURPOSE,” as part of the Great Reset to demoralize our Military & reduce America’s position globally
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3989844/posts
You can also bet more than one beer that many electronic components of the abandoned equipment has already made its way to Beijing, Moscow and Tehran.
Likewise helicopter engines/transmissions.
In other words, a boob.
It makes sense when you realize that we are living in Bizaro world.
It can be difficult,no matter who you are,to wrap your brain around the idea that the US,at least at the upper levels, is being run by corrupt traitors and self serving politicians who are in it to get as much as they can for them selves.
It’s the only thing that makes sense.
My sentiments exactly, My General orders in case of an overrun, bug out, or worse was to destroy EVERYTHING even if it was bolted to the floor. NOTHING was to be reusable by anyone that took over our site or camp.
NOW the enemy has ALL of it. I haven’t received a response from my congress critters when they would be able to outfit my family with vehicles, computers, munitions, firearms, heavy equipment etc.
THIS was INTENTIONAL.
Give that man a cigar!
Correct and concise answer.
they left that stuff because they wanted to.
The Dept of State is not for the US, it’s to kiss foreign asses.
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