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HKIA At Night
by Ansel Rubin, Cpl, 1st Battalion 8th Marines “Everyone I believe has that one singular event that they remember most from our...
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Oct 16, 20237 min read
At Abbey Gate
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...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20232 min read
The Watchman
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...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20231 min read
Axe Therapy
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....
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20232 min read
The Conflict of Leaving the Country
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...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20233 min read
The Last Soldier Killed in Afghanistan
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...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20232 min read
PAX Terminal
Sgt 2nd Battalion 1st Marines “When we arrived, my platoon worked at the PAX terminal for the first few days. We turned an very...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20237 min read
Personnel Recovery Task Force.
Major Jared K Levaivre, 71st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron “I had thought about this day countless times over the last year. It wasn’t...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20231 min read
State At Abbey
Sgt Echo Co 2nd Battalion 1st Marines. “The Department of State personnel that screens refugees only worked a FRACTION of the time we...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20231 min read
I Messed Up
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...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20233 min read
24th MEU/9th POB Tactical PSYOP Team
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...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 202318 min read
World War Z
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...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20234 min read
WARHAMMER 4
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...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20232 min read
Don't Think We're Making It Out
“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....
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oarfoundation9
Oct 16, 20231 min read
Days Ahead
From a Lance Cpl in 2nd Battalion 1st Marines “You could feel the encroaching and sobering thoughts before Kabul bearing down heavier...
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oarfoundation9
Oct 7, 20238 min read
Bearing Witness: Radio Operator's Memories of Kabul
By Travis Brignone, Weapons Company, Jaeger Comm, 2nd Battalion 1st Marines I was in Weapons company, 2nd battalion, 1st Marines. I was...
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Chris Robinson
Jul 14, 20231 min read
"As the Hours Passed" - Interview w/ Liam Poole Finale
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...
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Chris Robinson
Jul 14, 20231 min read
"As the Hours Passed" - Interview w/ Liam Poole Part 4
After the attack at Abbey Gate, emotions ran high. The only kind of relief afforded to the service members in HKIA was the destruction...
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Chris Robinson
Jul 14, 20231 min read
"As the Hours Passed" - Interview w/ Liam Poole Part 3
After a confusing start, LAR got a new mission to the southern, civilian side of HKIA. There they learned how precarious and tense the...
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Chris Robinson
Jul 12, 20231 min read
"As the Hours Passed" - Interview w/ Liam Poole Part 2
Liam discusses life aboard the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), the dangers and duties that that entailed, the relationships between Marines,...
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