mcantar18c
01-18-2015, 17:13
VICE News presents "The Interpreters"
https://news.vice.com/video/the-interpreters-part-1
I haven't watched all of the segments yet, but it hits home for me as I'm sure it does for many here.
Sure, there are some bad apples (we even experienced a couple "Green on Blue" incidents with ANA and ANP on my first deployment, one of which took 2 of our guys out of the fight). But for the most part they're good people.
I'm thinking of two guys in particular who have honestly done more good for our national security than most Americans have. I was in intermittent contact with one for a while after I returned from my last deployment but haven't heard from him in a while, and I can only hope he and his wife and child are alright.
Our government, IMO, is doing a huge disservice to these men who have spent in some cases the last decade of their lives in service to us.
https://news.vice.com/video/the-interpreters-part-1
I haven't watched all of the segments yet, but it hits home for me as I'm sure it does for many here.
Sure, there are some bad apples (we even experienced a couple "Green on Blue" incidents with ANA and ANP on my first deployment, one of which took 2 of our guys out of the fight). But for the most part they're good people.
I'm thinking of two guys in particular who have honestly done more good for our national security than most Americans have. I was in intermittent contact with one for a while after I returned from my last deployment but haven't heard from him in a while, and I can only hope he and his wife and child are alright.
Our government, IMO, is doing a huge disservice to these men who have spent in some cases the last decade of their lives in service to us.