The following remarks were delivered by Lt. Col. (ret) Scott Mann at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Afghanistan Withdrawal on March 8, 2023.
As a Green Beret and retired Lt. Col. with nearly 23 years in service and three combat tours in Afghanistan, I am here to relive August 2021 with all of you. Not as a Democrat or a Republican, but as an American veteran, representing 800,000 Afghan combat veterans, and their families, but with my own point of view.
I’d like to start with a question: What does an American promise mean today?
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There is a promise in the military that is both explicit and implicit: “I have your back.” We were trained that way. It’s in our blood.
But, in August of 2021, the leaders
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