Chad Robichaux

beyond trillions is infinite amount of money uh and and they they assumed those mineral rights from the hindukush mountains in september we left in august 31st they in september they had those mineral rights for the hindukush mountains and so the excuse again was that our troops were there we only had 1500 troops there at one point 2500 about the time of the withdrawal i can name 10 places right now in the world that we have that so uh

We still have 80,000 troops in Japan since World War II, 35,000 in South Korea, 40,000 in Germany.

Why Afghanistan?

It's bullshit.

Yeah, 100%, dude.

Well, I mean, it gave you youth.

I mean, I went to Afghanistan the first time when I was 29, but I gave my most formidable years.

I was a force recon Marine.

I went on a contract with a JSOC task force unit and did eight deployments.

So a lot of my life was invested in Afghanistan.

Over those years, lost 15 friends.

My son deployed to Afghanistan, the same war as me.

A lot was invested.

People lost their lives, lost their friends, lost their...

you know, youth there and sort of watch it just be given away.

The same thing happened in 2011 in Iraq when we left Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq.

Those guys that fought Ramadi and Fallujah and so it was a repeat over.

And so at Mighty Oaks Foundation where we, you know, we've served over half a million warriors there, our biggest spike, our biggest influx of applications for veterans and active duty service members to come to Mighty Oaks for dealing with, you know,

combat trauma or anxiety, depression was during the Afghan withdrawal.

They were just like, no one knew what to do.