Major Joshua Mast
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It was building tents as you put people into them. It was craziness. And these people look traumatized because a lot of them had spent, you know, three, four, five days outside, a couple of days to get on an airplane. They cram them in there without, you know, no restrooms, no moving space. Like there were fights on the planes and babies and people dying.
And then they all got bottlenecked in Doha for the most part. in un-air-conditioned terminals, because we were trying to find our group, and they called us saying, hey, we don't feel well, we don't have water, trying to get them through that process. So they landed in Germany. And we were sitting in the USO in Ramstein alone.
And then they all got bottlenecked in Doha for the most part. in un-air-conditioned terminals, because we were trying to find our group, and they called us saying, hey, we don't feel well, we don't have water, trying to get them through that process. So they landed in Germany. And we were sitting in the USO in Ramstein alone.
And then they all got bottlenecked in Doha for the most part. in un-air-conditioned terminals, because we were trying to find our group, and they called us saying, hey, we don't feel well, we don't have water, trying to get them through that process. So they landed in Germany. And we were sitting in the USO in Ramstein alone.
We're probably the only people in the terminal, maybe three other people. And so seeing some ambulances pull up, I'm like, what's that? And then you realize like, it's just these,
We're probably the only people in the terminal, maybe three other people. And so seeing some ambulances pull up, I'm like, what's that? And then you realize like, it's just these,
We're probably the only people in the terminal, maybe three other people. And so seeing some ambulances pull up, I'm like, what's that? And then you realize like, it's just these,
was our um our casualties they were taking them and taking them to landstuhl medical center there and they just got off the plane and and there's just so many um because there's 30 something wounded in addition to the killed and we was just watched them take you know body after body of our wounded off the aircraft and take them over then i remember sitting there with um there was a state department lead for for that basis was a reservist a marine
was our um our casualties they were taking them and taking them to landstuhl medical center there and they just got off the plane and and there's just so many um because there's 30 something wounded in addition to the killed and we was just watched them take you know body after body of our wounded off the aircraft and take them over then i remember sitting there with um there was a state department lead for for that basis was a reservist a marine
was our um our casualties they were taking them and taking them to landstuhl medical center there and they just got off the plane and and there's just so many um because there's 30 something wounded in addition to the killed and we was just watched them take you know body after body of our wounded off the aircraft and take them over then i remember sitting there with um there was a state department lead for for that basis was a reservist a marine
a phenomenal person and he actually got sent home because he was raising the alarm of how dangerous it was the child safety issues that were happening at ramstein he got sent home to the us because he's like hey this is dangerous we need to do better than this and um but we're sitting there and just crying our eyes out watching these marines come off the birds and uh i i've always wanted to express the gratitude and like um
a phenomenal person and he actually got sent home because he was raising the alarm of how dangerous it was the child safety issues that were happening at ramstein he got sent home to the us because he's like hey this is dangerous we need to do better than this and um but we're sitting there and just crying our eyes out watching these marines come off the birds and uh i i've always wanted to express the gratitude and like um
a phenomenal person and he actually got sent home because he was raising the alarm of how dangerous it was the child safety issues that were happening at ramstein he got sent home to the us because he's like hey this is dangerous we need to do better than this and um but we're sitting there and just crying our eyes out watching these marines come off the birds and uh i i've always wanted to express the gratitude and like um
just having observed what their children went through and knowing that they kept that gate open longer, because it meant life or death for a lot of people. And like just the selflessness of that, that decision. that those Marines made, and, you know, the real-world cost of that for people they don't even know.
just having observed what their children went through and knowing that they kept that gate open longer, because it meant life or death for a lot of people. And like just the selflessness of that, that decision. that those Marines made, and, you know, the real-world cost of that for people they don't even know.
just having observed what their children went through and knowing that they kept that gate open longer, because it meant life or death for a lot of people. And like just the selflessness of that, that decision. that those Marines made, and, you know, the real-world cost of that for people they don't even know.
But, like, just for me, I know for a fact that they saved 14 people's lives, and I got their picture from Australia, that they got out because of these Marines. And I don't know how many others they saved, but I know they saved those people. And they've been so dead, murdered by the Taliban. And I can't.
But, like, just for me, I know for a fact that they saved 14 people's lives, and I got their picture from Australia, that they got out because of these Marines. And I don't know how many others they saved, but I know they saved those people. And they've been so dead, murdered by the Taliban. And I can't.
But, like, just for me, I know for a fact that they saved 14 people's lives, and I got their picture from Australia, that they got out because of these Marines. And I don't know how many others they saved, but I know they saved those people. And they've been so dead, murdered by the Taliban. And I can't.
to know the ground and to know what people were doing and to express the evil of that bombing, of the just senseless violence. It's just a... A real focal point of the GWAT, I think, is just the senselessness and the evil we're facing, where people think that that is what God wants them to do, is to blow themselves up in innocence together.