Marines look back 1 year after the Abbey Gate attack
By Todd South and Jonathan Lehrfeld
Aug 23, 08:25 AM
Cpl. Wyatt J. Wilson watched the flood of Afghans seeking refuge bottlenecked outside Abbey Gate at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport in the hot, late August 2021 days leading up to the end of America’s longest war.
He and his fellow Marines scanned the perimeter, pushing back those who didn’t clear security, sometimes taking babies handed over barbed wire into the safe zone.
Maj. Benjamin F. Sutphen had been running nonstop starting in March 2021 to put plans together, move equipment and people out of Afghanistan as the withdrawal at the end of the month fast approached.
