35 Incredible Photos from a Chaotic Year for the US Military
30 Dec 2021
Military.com | By Zachary Fryer-Biggs
From the nation’s capital to Afghanistan, service members were asked to defend America, Americans and American ideals around the world in 2021.
Those missions included assisting local hospitals as they battled the coronavirus pandemic, guarding the U.S. Capitol from those committed to upending democracy, and the evacuation of Kabul which claimed the lives of 13 service members and saw Afghans desperate to escape Taliban rule clinging to U.S. military aircraft and begging for a chance to flee.
These images provide snapshots of a taxing year for troops, both in terms of the diverse and intense responsibilities service members shouldered, but also the toll of seeing some attempt to politicize military service and grappling with how to judge a 20-year war that had claimed thousands of American lives ending with American troops quietly withdrawing under the cover of darkness.
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