Report: Army official’s secret texts said, ‘We’re f-ing abandoning Americans,’ as US withdrew from Afghanistan
U.S. Soliders with the 82nd Airborne Division check evacuees during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla)
September 02, 2021 Ryan Morgan
A U.S. Army colonel on the ground at the Kabul airport said U.S. troops were knowingly leaving behind U.S. citizens, according to a series of private texts leaked this week. In one text, the Army colonel wrote “Yes, we are bleep abandoning American citizens.”
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/09/report-army-officials-secret-texts-said-were-f-ing-abandoning-americans-as-us-withdrew-from-afghanistan/The texts were reportedly shared between 82nd Airborne Col. Matt Rogers and Michael Yon, a former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent. Yon was among a number of private citizens who worked in private groups to help evacuate Americans stranded in Afghanistan.
Yon wrote that he had been working with a man by the name of Rick Clay who “had three jets on ground in Kabul.” Yon said, “I had arranged Taliban bringing American mother and three American children all the way to gate. Turned away by American Army.”
Rogers’ texts with Yon came as the veteran and war correspondent encountered difficulties getting people through to the Kabul airport.
