Posted on 08/12/2021 1:09:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
With security in Afghanistan deteriorating rapidly, U.S. troops were dispatched Thursday to evacuate personnel from the embassy in Kabul, according to a U.S. official.
U.S. troops are being sent to the Kabul airport where they will provide air and ground support to help process Americans hastily exiting the country.
The move comes alongside news that the Taliban have seized the country's third largest city of Heart, a strategic provincial capital near Kabul.
The ARVN kept Saigon free up till we shut off their weapon supply. Took about three years to fall.
Kabul probably will not even wait through the end of the year.
Why were they still there?
Liberals in power again.
This should have been done first, not last!
it’s time
nuke the Taliban
It’s time for our mil to just go rogue over there and do what they want to do
f D.C.
Of course! You are correct. I had a brain fart.
I knew that photo was from the last hours of the RVN on April 30, 1975. Somehow I put down the year that Nixon gave up the RVN, instead.
Of course, the Dhimicrat controlled House prevented Ford from resupplying the ARVN, per the PEACE TREATY, and the RVN soon collapsed. The Dhimicrats hated America then, and they hate it now.
“The move comes alongside news that the Taliban have seized the country’s third largest city of Heart, a strategic provincial capital near Kabul.”
That should be Herat, not Heart, and it is clear on the other side of the Country from Kabul.
Quibbling aside, its a disaster.
Now as troops head back to Afghanietnam, should it really go south don’t let anyone forget that DJT had a deal in place with the Taliban to allow safe exit from the country. That plan was shot down by the left/neocons in congress.
That brings back memories. I was stationed at Naval Station, Subic Bay, Philippines, 74-76. At that time I was a CS2, (Commissaryman 2nd class). In January 75 I was sent on Temporary assigned duty to the Armed Force Police, (permanent shore patrol).
When Saigon fell the refugees took to anything that could float and head out to sea to escape the NVA. Our navy picked up all the refugees they could transported them to Subic Bay and then we set up a refugee camp on Grande Island, (which was an island in the bay that the navy used as a recreational retreat for sailors and their families.
I was recalled back to the galley and spent the next 4 months, 12 hours/7 days a week, cooking for 2-5,000 refugees in the tent city. We cooked the meals at the base galley and then the food was helo’d or sent by boat to the island’s recreation center which had been converted into a dining hall.
The refugees were so afraid that they would not be fed regularly that they snuck food out of the dining hall and took it to their tents where they hid it. soon it was obvious that this was causing a rat problem so the tents were searched frequently in order to remove the food.
The tent city remained full with daily arrivals and daily departures of refugees. Some of the refugees were sent to the states, some to Thailand refugee camps, the Philippines took some along with other Asian countries.
I was eventually allowed to go back to the AFP’s and later converted from CS2 to MA2, (Master-at-Arms).
Several of my co-workers were part of that escape. Both were ARVN, one was a helo mechanic that transported to Thailand then to the US. He said he was on boats for almost a year. Has a huge family now, kids, grandkids, vacation home the whole megillah. He has returned a few times but considers the US home. The guy laughs at everything and he’s been an inspiration to those of us that knew what we went through.
The refugees, (Vietnamese), that I have worked with or known have been the hardest workers I have ever known. self reliant and really good business folks.
Funny story, (also sad), when the navy intercepted the refugee boats/rafts and the refugees were brought onboard, U.S. Marines were tasked with searching the refugees for weapons/explosives and other contraband. The junior Marines were told that anything they did not recognize and thought was contraband was to be thrown overboard. Many of the refugees had their lives savings in small gold strips, (not bars), weighing a few grams each. The Marines found them and threw them overboard while the refugees screamed and cried. The Marines had no idea what was being said and just ignored them.
There were also refugees who had been bar owners, black marketers and other businessmen. There was one I learned about that had over $1,000,000 in U.S. dollars in suitcases. He was allowed to keep it after DOD/NIS,(now named NCIS)/FBI determined that it was not illegal funds.
fools should be shredding crypto cards and all sensitive, secret and top secret info and communications and such equipment. But of course this being federal gub mint and military “intelligence”, don’t bet on it.
No Be-done is too old to remember Vietnam.
Everyone saw it which is why the neocons argued we needed to stay in Afghanistan forever.
Apparently, Biden is fumbling the exit from Afghanistan in monumental style to underscore our loss there. The primary blame for these last 20 years there, however, goes to George W Bush. We accomplished our objective within three months of rightfully going there. The objective was to send this backward tribal society that housed terrorist training camps that did great harm to the US a strong message of force that they understand. That message consisted of bombing them and displacing their Taliban leadership, at least temporarily, with other backward warring tribal societies and groups, like the Northern Alliance and others, that were equally undemocratic, but, at least, were less hostile to the US. Then leave and allow them to return to their centuries of tribal warfare with a renewed mindset and focus on warring against each other leaving in place that forceful reminder not to add the US to their mix of targets. Kudos to the Bush victory at that point where mission was truly accomplished. It was when he changed the mission to “bringing democracy” to these backward warring tribes after accomplishing our objective that he blew it. Simply put, you can’t dress a warthog in the tuxedo of democracy.
That’s 1975, not 1973. (I don’t know why it is so important to the forces of evil to create a narrative that the last shot was fired in 1973.)
“Pray for our warriors!”
Yes, please. My son is a Marine. I think I know where he is right now, but...
“In January 75 I was sent on Temporary assigned duty to the Armed Force Police, (permanent shore patrol).”
That’s where you were the first time I pulled in to Subic.
The first time I crossed the river into Olongapo, some permanent shore patrol were parked in their jeep at the first cross street.
As I got there a bar girl came running down the street yelling at them, “Come quick. Come quick. Somebody put de knife in de customer.”
(Sorry, I thought a little humor couldn’t hurt. True story, though.)
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