by Ansel Rubin, Cpl, 1st Battalion 8th Marines “Everyone I believe has that one singular event that they remember most from our...

Lcpl Juan Castillo Echo Co 2nd Battalion 1st Marines “It’d be really hard for one to say that they left HKIA without being just a little...

Jaryk Pitsch “It was the morning of August 26th, 2021. I had been on watch since the morning of the 25th watching civilians ready to...

Jarrett Darrah, DDS LT, DC, USN “That's me in the hot-wired Land Cruiser ambulance. Oddly enough, I was the dentist for the 24th MEU....

By CPT Max Gillick 3-82 GSAB (TF Talon), 82 CAB, 82 ABN DIV “It was over, we had spent just shy of 4 months making the best of a short...

By First Sgt Michael Dean “It's been a long year and day. As I honored SSG Ryan Knauss, I was able to share the story of the last Soldier...

Sgt 2nd Battalion 1st Marines “When we arrived, my platoon worked at the PAX terminal for the first few days. We turned an very...

Major Jared K Levaivre, 71st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron “I had thought about this day countless times over the last year. It wasn’t...

Sgt Echo Co 2nd Battalion 1st Marines. “The Department of State personnel that screens refugees only worked a FRACTION of the time we...

By CJ Cooper, 2nd Battalion 1st Marines “A year ago today occupying Abbey was the scariest day of my life. DocMayo and myself got trapped...

By Alan Cave/24MEU “I was a Psychological Operations Marine from Quantico attached to the 24th MEU that landed the morning of the 15th to...

By Ben Hofstetter, Cpt, 1/82ND "If you have ever seen the section of the movie WWZ where Brad Pitt is in Israel then you know what HKIA...

Carlos Garcia, 2/1 Warhammer 4th Platoon "As we get to the 1 year anniversary of the events that took place in Kabul, Afghanistan, a lot...

“As time went on, each day we would get another brief, every day the likelihood of us being sent in went up a little more than the last....

From a Lance Cpl in 2nd Battalion 1st Marines “You could feel the encroaching and sobering thoughts before Kabul bearing down heavier...

By Travis Brignone, Weapons Company, Jaeger Comm, 2nd Battalion 1st Marines I was in Weapons company, 2nd battalion, 1st Marines. I was...

In the finale part of the interview, Liam discusses what it's like coming home as well as some retrospective thoughts on how America as a...

After the attack at Abbey Gate, emotions ran high. The only kind of relief afforded to the service members in HKIA was the destruction...

After a confusing start, LAR got a new mission to the southern, civilian side of HKIA. There they learned how precarious and tense the...

Liam discusses life aboard the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), the dangers and duties that that entailed, the relationships between Marines,...