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02/10/2022

It’s been awhile since we posted anything new. Our apologies, life got in the way. We will be having updates soon!

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09/07/2021

Upcoming Saturday October 9, 2021 for our friends near Ft. Hood.

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08/19/2021

o all my brothers and sisters, in or out of uniform, that served in Afghanistan. Know that you did NOT fail. For 20 years, you accomplished every mission handed to you, no matter how difficult or seemingly impossible, with honor. You gave the people of Afghanistan hope. You protected our families here at home from countless other 9/11’s.
The failure is not with you. It lies squarely on the shoulders of suits and generals in the beltway. It lies on the shoulders of ivy school grads with zero life experience, pretending they had a clue what they were doing, and those that chose to listen to them.

Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: My Heart Is Broken by Biden's Afghanistan Failure

08/17/2021

https://www.westernjournal.com/exclusive-gen-flynn-heart-broken-bidens-afghanistan-failure/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=conservativetribune&utm_content=2021-08-16&utm_campaign=manualpost&fbclid=IwAR30hqohzxoZyCFG7udMqJ8cdJKBJSPCaILMJ5bhiPYsnMhaQ5pKCe36qzA

Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: My Heart Is Broken by Biden's Afghanistan Failure 'Even the Americans who voted for Biden-Harris will realize that this team operates through deception and deceit.'

08/17/2021

First, I’d like to start by saying that I do not consider myself a foreign policy or military strategy expert. I have though spent 30 years of my life serving this great nation in various uniforms and roles, from my humble beginnings as a US Army soldier in Gulf War 1, to my time in law enforcement, then onto private military contracting in Iraq and culminating with my term at the State Department.

Like most Americans I spent Sunday intently watching the news on the absolute debacle that was unfolding in Afghanistan, especially in Kabul. However, unlike many Americans this was more personal. You see, I spent 3 years of my life in Afghanistan (2010-2013) heading up the security detail for US Ambassadors Eikenberry and Crocker, respectively, as a member of the Diplomatic Security Service. Previously, I spent almost 5 years in Iraq doing the same mission. My team were all seasoned professionals, that I and those we protected entrusted our lives to daily, and like me, most had also spent years in Iraq prior to transferring to Afghanistan. Almost all of them had come from a military background, with many serving in the Special Operations community.

Therefore, I had a front row seat to the diplomatic, military and intelligence apparatus that shaped US policy in Afghanistan and the larger Global War on Terrorism. I still have friends and men I call brothers there, trying to get out.

Our first failure was trying to turn Afghanistan into a functioning democracy. This is a tribal nation, and unless you’ve spent any time there, it is hard to imagine. There are remote areas in Afghanistan where one tribe has not had any contact with another tribe 20 miles away for generations. You cannot change 1,000 years of an ingrained way of life in 20 years. We should have never focused on “nation building” in the first place.

Unfortunately, elections have consequences. The Biden administration (if you’d call it an administration) is filled with the same failed policy advisors from when Biden was VP. SECSTATE Blinken was a Deputy National Security Advisor for Obama (2013-2015) and a Deputy SECSTATE from 2015-2107. He joined the State Department in 1993, taking a post in the Clinton White House and on the staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, working closely with then Senator Biden, culminating in him becoming VP Biden’s National Security Advisor in 2008. Blinken’s focus as he has stated is “tackling global challenges like climate change, arms proliferation and COVID-19”.

Blinken was at the helm as Biden’s National Security Advisor during the Iraq pullout, which ultimately led to the rise of ISIS, from the ashes of Al-Qaeda, due to the power vacuum left. ISIS devastated northern Iraq, murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, before pushing into Syria’s Raqqa.

Then Biden nominated Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, who is a retired Army General, and served as the vice chief of staff of the Army under Obama and Biden in 2012-2013 and was the last commanding General in Iraq Operation New Dawn. During Austin’s tenure at the helm in Iraq, he advised Obama that ISIS was a “flash in the pan” leading Obama to describe them as the “jayvee team”.

Austin was summarily chewed out by then Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain for failing to support measures to protect Syrian civilians and failing to have an actual plan to protect U.S. interests.

The next year, a congressional panel said that Austin, who was at the helm of CENTCOM then, altered intelligence reports, to give a much more optimistic report on the war against ISIS in both Iraq and Syria. Maybe if SECDEF Austin spent more time listening to intelligence reports from men on the ground, and less time trying to turn our military into some woke culture experiment, he wouldn’t have screwed up the assessment in Afghanistan so badly.

Next up is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, who nowadays is more concerned with critical race theory in the military than preparing our men and women for war.

Ultimately, what this means is that the United States in the last 24 hours has become far less safe, for you, me, our children, and our grandchildren. I know, we’ve been in Afghanistan for 20 years (keep in mind we’re still in Germany, Japan, and Korea) and although I hate the idea of our men and women being in harm’s way as much or more than anyone, the long-term effect was and is safety here at home.

The Kabul embassy was the U.S. Intelligence hub for all the Middle East. We’ve now lost that. We were able to project military power from our bases in Bagram, Kandahar, and Jalalabad. All gone.

5,000 jihadist from Al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Taliban are now free. Do you think they found Jesus Christ during their prison term? Doubtful. They have been patiently plotting their collective revenge. How long do you think before they start planning? How long before they learn, if they don’t already, that our southern border is wide open?

Yes, the Afghan military failed. However, when we re-built the Afghan military, we modeled it after our own, where ground troops are supported by superior air power and intelligence. When the Biden administration pulled our troops, they also pulled the support the Afghan army relied on. They were blind, had little communications and had no direct air support.

If Milley and Austin had a shred of dignity about them, they would tender their resignations effective immediately. Blinken should be fired. Biden should resign. Just like in Benghazi, they have left Americans to die needlessly. Collectively they have destroyed America’s strength in the Middle East and put American’s here on the Homefront at unconscionable risk.

Afghanistan will rapidly return to the terrorist hotbed it was before September 11, 2001, and mark my words, American forces will someday have to confront this evil all over again.