Joshua Mast

what was more remarkable is there's an afghan partner force there and they were engaged in clearing that room that they just breached and uh they had they sustained a casualty and um were very angry about that and so they wanted they they literally came to our our rangers and like let a shooter in the head like just maybe the baby like let's just throw in the creek

what was more remarkable is there's an afghan partner force there and they were engaged in clearing that room that they just breached and uh they had they sustained a casualty and um were very angry about that and so they wanted they they literally came to our our rangers and like let a shooter in the head like just maybe the baby like let's just throw in the creek

what was more remarkable is there's an afghan partner force there and they were engaged in clearing that room that they just breached and uh they had they sustained a casualty and um were very angry about that and so they wanted they they literally came to our our rangers and like let a shooter in the head like just maybe the baby like let's just throw in the creek

And so they didn't want her to grow up to be a foreign terrorist in their country because they're engaged in a brutal civil war at that point with a lot of foreign terrorists. And these are the cultural experts. It's their culture. Who knows better than them? And so our guys physically resisted murdering our little girl now on objective.

And so they didn't want her to grow up to be a foreign terrorist in their country because they're engaged in a brutal civil war at that point with a lot of foreign terrorists. And these are the cultural experts. It's their culture. Who knows better than them? And so our guys physically resisted murdering our little girl now on objective.

And so they didn't want her to grow up to be a foreign terrorist in their country because they're engaged in a brutal civil war at that point with a lot of foreign terrorists. And these are the cultural experts. It's their culture. Who knows better than them? And so our guys physically resisted murdering our little girl now on objective.

And like, honestly, the moral courage while you have your own guys bleeding and you're in a kinetic firefight, they still have that instinct as an American soldier to protect innocent life. I mean, I'm humbled.

And like, honestly, the moral courage while you have your own guys bleeding and you're in a kinetic firefight, they still have that instinct as an American soldier to protect innocent life. I mean, I'm humbled.

And like, honestly, the moral courage while you have your own guys bleeding and you're in a kinetic firefight, they still have that instinct as an American soldier to protect innocent life. I mean, I'm humbled.

So we've gotten to meet a bunch of phenomenal Americans at every level of government over the last five years in this. And one of them was the...

So we've gotten to meet a bunch of phenomenal Americans at every level of government over the last five years in this. And one of them was the...

So we've gotten to meet a bunch of phenomenal Americans at every level of government over the last five years in this. And one of them was the...

he was what's called a civil affairs officer for the special operations task force afghanistan and and i had some of those same questions as i'm kind of researching this and we didn't know all this at the time but over time we've learned and um he had asked the same question well how do you safely you know advertise in an area controlled by al-qaeda or hakani network in afghanistan how do you safely advertise that you've recovered a child and then we had a lot of reports of

he was what's called a civil affairs officer for the special operations task force afghanistan and and i had some of those same questions as i'm kind of researching this and we didn't know all this at the time but over time we've learned and um he had asked the same question well how do you safely you know advertise in an area controlled by al-qaeda or hakani network in afghanistan how do you safely advertise that you've recovered a child and then we had a lot of reports of

he was what's called a civil affairs officer for the special operations task force afghanistan and and i had some of those same questions as i'm kind of researching this and we didn't know all this at the time but over time we've learned and um he had asked the same question well how do you safely you know advertise in an area controlled by al-qaeda or hakani network in afghanistan how do you safely advertise that you've recovered a child and then we had a lot of reports of

foreign children, you know, doing very poorly in the Afghan orphanage system or being treated prejudicially, you know, just because of the brutality of the war going on there. And so he had, he'd actually asked some of the ICRC staff like, uh, that were like, Oh, we found somebody who might be able to take her. And he's like, well, are they related? Like, we don't know.

foreign children, you know, doing very poorly in the Afghan orphanage system or being treated prejudicially, you know, just because of the brutality of the war going on there. And so he had, he'd actually asked some of the ICRC staff like, uh, that were like, Oh, we found somebody who might be able to take her. And he's like, well, are they related? Like, we don't know.

foreign children, you know, doing very poorly in the Afghan orphanage system or being treated prejudicially, you know, just because of the brutality of the war going on there. And so he had, he'd actually asked some of the ICRC staff like, uh, that were like, Oh, we found somebody who might be able to take her. And he's like, well, are they related? Like, we don't know.

And so he was very concerned that, um, they were having to rely on the word of basically Taliban, uh,

And so he was very concerned that, um, they were having to rely on the word of basically Taliban, uh,