A Voice for SOF: How SOAA Is Bringing ‘Ground Truth’ to DC
Mil & Intel
By Hannah Ray Lambert | November 18, 2021
In late June 2021, Daniel Elkins stood in front of the United States Capitol, flanked by a small crowd of suit-wearing members of Congress and their staffs. For months, he’d been trying to get Washington lawmakers to pay attention to the Special Immigrant Visa process for Afghan interpreters, a policy that he believed was headed for disaster with the US’s full withdrawal from Afghanistan just weeks away.
Finally, someone was listening.
“[We] made them a promise,” Elkins said into the microphone. “And with the president’s decision to have all American forces leave Afghanistan, these Afghan heroes who served by our side will be left in imminent and grave danger if we don’t take swift action.”
Two months later, Elkins was proved tragically right.
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