{"id":30227,"date":"2023-03-11T21:17:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T21:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/11\/emotional-injured-us-marine-describes-afghanistan-withdrawal-catastrophe\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T21:17:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T21:17:56","slug":"emotional-injured-us-marine-describes-afghanistan-withdrawal-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=30227","title":{"rendered":"Emotional injured US Marine describes Afghanistan withdrawal &#8216;catastrophe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Tyler Vargas-Andrews cried as he recounted his experience of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The former US Marine, 25, was one of several US military personnel tasked with protecting Kabul&#8217;s airport on 26 August, when two suicide bombers attacked crowds of Afghans trying to flee the Taliban during the US evacuation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Thirteen US soldiers died in the bombing, along with 170 Afghan civilians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He was speaking during the first of a series of Republican-led hearings examining the Biden administration&#8217;s handling of the pull-out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-64897424\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Read more<\/a> on this story. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-64899291?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Tyler Vargas-Andrews cried as he recounted his experience of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in 2021. The former US Marine, 25, was one of several US military personnel &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}