Major Joshua Mast

I did a very short trip in 2018 to sit with like at Camp Alpha and Camp Vance and watch some of the targeting going on live and talk to them about like, hey, what are you seeing? And then the other thing I would do is I would instruct at the schoolhouse during operational law courses, or sometimes they'd have other legal communities ask you to come in and speak on operational law.

I did a very short trip in 2018 to sit with like at Camp Alpha and Camp Vance and watch some of the targeting going on live and talk to them about like, hey, what are you seeing? And then the other thing I would do is I would instruct at the schoolhouse during operational law courses, or sometimes they'd have other legal communities ask you to come in and speak on operational law.

So explaining to, for lack of a better term, baby jags, what is the joint targeting process, what is collateral damage estimation, so that they have credibility when they go in front of a commander and get an operational law billet.

So explaining to, for lack of a better term, baby jags, what is the joint targeting process, what is collateral damage estimation, so that they have credibility when they go in front of a commander and get an operational law billet.

So explaining to, for lack of a better term, baby jags, what is the joint targeting process, what is collateral damage estimation, so that they have credibility when they go in front of a commander and get an operational law billet.

Okay, so in 2019 when I deployed, I was attached to the Resolute Support US Forces Afghanistan. Judge Advocate's office. So it's the senior attorney for all of Afghanistan. It's a colonel sitting on top of probably 10 or 12 attorneys, but he's responsible for all of the attorneys in Afghanistan. Okay.

Okay, so in 2019 when I deployed, I was attached to the Resolute Support US Forces Afghanistan. Judge Advocate's office. So it's the senior attorney for all of Afghanistan. It's a colonel sitting on top of probably 10 or 12 attorneys, but he's responsible for all of the attorneys in Afghanistan. Okay.

Okay, so in 2019 when I deployed, I was attached to the Resolute Support US Forces Afghanistan. Judge Advocate's office. So it's the senior attorney for all of Afghanistan. It's a colonel sitting on top of probably 10 or 12 attorneys, but he's responsible for all of the attorneys in Afghanistan. Okay.

So that's not the actual name of the op, but that was a code name we had had for her amongst the medical staff and the Americans trying to help get a safe outcome for her. They called it Operation Starfish.

So that's not the actual name of the op, but that was a code name we had had for her amongst the medical staff and the Americans trying to help get a safe outcome for her. They called it Operation Starfish.

So that's not the actual name of the op, but that was a code name we had had for her amongst the medical staff and the Americans trying to help get a safe outcome for her. They called it Operation Starfish.

Yeah, she was finishing her master's degree. So it had been off cycle for us. Like, it was a short deployment, 90 days, so not a big deal. I landed on the ground in Bagram on September 6th, 2019, which I learned that out the course of, but that is exactly like down to the hour when she was getting lifted off the X by the Rangers.

Yeah, she was finishing her master's degree. So it had been off cycle for us. Like, it was a short deployment, 90 days, so not a big deal. I landed on the ground in Bagram on September 6th, 2019, which I learned that out the course of, but that is exactly like down to the hour when she was getting lifted off the X by the Rangers.

Yeah, she was finishing her master's degree. So it had been off cycle for us. Like, it was a short deployment, 90 days, so not a big deal. I landed on the ground in Bagram on September 6th, 2019, which I learned that out the course of, but that is exactly like down to the hour when she was getting lifted off the X by the Rangers.

And when I learned that two months in, I had goosebumps because it's like, wow. Like, what are the odds that you land at the same time? So September 6th, 2019 sticks in my head because that's when I got to Afghanistan the second time at about two in the morning when we landed.

And when I learned that two months in, I had goosebumps because it's like, wow. Like, what are the odds that you land at the same time? So September 6th, 2019 sticks in my head because that's when I got to Afghanistan the second time at about two in the morning when we landed.

And when I learned that two months in, I had goosebumps because it's like, wow. Like, what are the odds that you land at the same time? So September 6th, 2019 sticks in my head because that's when I got to Afghanistan the second time at about two in the morning when we landed.

As an office, we would go and have dinner together at the dining facility. And I will never forget, we're walking to Chow, and my colonel's like, with probably eight or ten attorneys, and my colonel, the senior attorney in Afghanistan, is like, what the hell are we going to do with this baby? And I was like, that was very odd. Like, I'm the new guy, right? I just got there.

As an office, we would go and have dinner together at the dining facility. And I will never forget, we're walking to Chow, and my colonel's like, with probably eight or ten attorneys, and my colonel, the senior attorney in Afghanistan, is like, what the hell are we going to do with this baby? And I was like, that was very odd. Like, I'm the new guy, right? I just got there.

As an office, we would go and have dinner together at the dining facility. And I will never forget, we're walking to Chow, and my colonel's like, with probably eight or ten attorneys, and my colonel, the senior attorney in Afghanistan, is like, what the hell are we going to do with this baby? And I was like, that was very odd. Like, I'm the new guy, right? I just got there.