Posted on 08/27/2021 2:29:37 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
A group of highly trained US military veterans has been secretly rescuing hundreds of allied operatives from Afghanistan — volunteering over fears those allies would otherwise be left for dead, according to a report.
The weeklong secret operation dubbed “Pineapple Express” has been carried out by a group of special ops veterans including retired Green Berets and SEAL Team commanders, they told ABC News.
They were driven by deep frustration “that our own government didn’t do this,” former Navy SEAL Jason Redman told ABC.
“We did what we should do, as Americans,” he said.
They initially formed to rescue an ex-Afghan commando who was getting death threats from the Taliban for having worked with US special forces and elite SEAL Team Six, ABC said.
After the Taliban’s target and his family of six were rescued, the task force continued rescuing Afghan allies — and has so far helped at least 630 get through the deadly ring of steel outside Kabul airport to safely evacuate.
They normally smuggled people into the airport in the middle of the night, either one person at a time or in pairs.
“That is an astounding number for an organization that was only assembled days before the start of operations and most of its members had never met each other in person,” former Green Beret Capt. Zac Lois told ABC.
The group dodged heavily militarized Taliban checkpoints to smuggle people through to the airport, using images of pineapples on their phones to show those being brought in that they were on their side.
The tropical fruit was also used as a final password — since changed — that was given to US military members at the airport who were working unofficially in tandem with the heroic veterans, ABC said.
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Blackwater was founded I believe by Eric Prince, whose sister was the Secretary of Education Betsy Devos (under Trump) or something like that.
The way the story is written, it doesn’t sound as if these vets were contracted by the US Gov.
It sounds as if they acted on their own. But, who knows...
Awesome story?
What?
How many of them are US citizens?
I would say he is vetted already and proven himself to be an asset of the US. These special opps guys were willing to risked their lives to get him out. You need to rethink your stance because you sound deranged.
See post 21 by Patriot Babe and explain to me: Is Trump involved with Black Water?
Great to see this in the NY Post with its high circulation showing the work Vets did to save Americans and Afghan Allies that Joe Biden and the Obamunists won’t do.
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So an Afghan works with US Special Forces and the Taliban target him for execution and you want the Special Forces people not to save him.
Nice. /s
I hope these guys have some eyes in the sky!
WHY is this published? Loose lips sink ships! The day after the BBC reported people climbing the fence by the canal to enter the airport was the bomb. Coincidence or cause?
Agreed. The story was already published and shared by multiple news outlets, so I figured I’d might as well share it here.
So we have 115,000 unvetted Special forces Afghans with no ids coming here .
Really / Sarc
dont know
Am I the deranged one
letting 115,000 unvetted unvaccinated and no ids Afghans into. the US .
you sound like a useful idiot .
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