Andrew Sullivan led an Army infantry platoon by way of two excursions in Iraq and commanded an organization in Afghanistan — and says his personal interpreter carried extra danger, and extra of the conflict, than he ever did. At present Andrew runs No One Left Behind, preventing to get America’s wartime allies residence earlier than it is too late.
Andrew commissioned as an infantry officer out of Virginia Army Institute and served over 9 years within the U.S. Army, deploying twice to Iraq and as soon as to Afghanistan, with a later posting to Latvia as tensions rose with Russia. He led a rifle platoon by way of a management disaster in Iraq’s Mesan Province, ran the drawdown at Al Assad Air Base, and commanded an organization working alongside the Afghan Nationwide Army in Zabul Province — the place he grew shut together with his interpreter, Amodi, and first realized what the Particular Immigrant Visa program really guarantees the individuals who serve beside American troops. He is been preventing for that promise ever since: first as legislative director at With Honor Motion, now as government director of No One Left Behind.
The dialog covers Andrew’s path to service after 9/11, Ranger Faculty and the place Army and Marine Corps coaching genuinely differ, the management mistake he says he nonetheless hasn’t forgiven himself for, two deployments to Iraq — together with the unglamorous work of shutting down a ahead working base — and an organization command in Afghanistan outlined by firefights, IEDs, and a 250-lb bomb that landed in the course of six Afghan troopers with out detonating. It closes on the work he does now: what the SIV program really requires, why it is stalled, and what’s at stake for the tens of hundreds of interpreters and troopers nonetheless ready on America’s phrase.
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Visitor Info — Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan served over 9 years as a U.S. Army Infantry Officer, deploying twice to Iraq and as soon as every to Afghanistan and Latvia. After leaving energetic obligation, he turned Government Director of No One Left Behind, a nonprofit preventing to get Particular Immigrant Visas issued to the Afghan and Iraqi interpreters and allies who risked their lives serving alongside U.S. forces. Below his management, NOLB has helped drive an authorised backlog of greater than 30,000 allies ahead whereas working virtually fully on non-public funding — this system presently receives $0 in direct authorities assist. Sullivan continues to push for the visas, resettlement assist, and follow-through the U.S. promised the individuals who fought beside it.
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Host Info — AJ Pasciuti
AJ Pasciuti is a retired Marine Power Recon Scout Sniper and Infantry Weapons Officer (Marine Gunner) with 21 years of service and a number of fight excursions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s the writer of Darkhorse: Harnessing Hidden Potential in Warfare and Life and the host and creator of the Fight Story Podcast, the place veterans share sincere, unfiltered tales of service, management, fight expertise, and life after conflict. Via Fight Story, AJ’s mission is to seize the actual moments that formed warriors—not invented drama, however the particular incidents and decisions that outline character—and to honor the lineage and classes of army service.
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Guide (Darkhorse): https://ajpasciuti.com/darkhorse
Web site: https://www.ajpasciuti.com
Instagram: @ajpasciuti
Chapters:
0:00 – Chilly open
1:52 – Introduction
3:54 – What known as him to service, and 9/11
18:49 – Virginia Army Institute
23:16 – Commissioning and infantry coaching
27:40 – Ranger Faculty
50:04 – First obligation station and a last-minute orders swap
58:43 – First Iraq deployment begins
1:00:00 – A platoon’s total management will get fired
1:14:00 – The “manifesto” e-mail — and the lesson that adopted
1:27:00 – Second Iraq deployment: shutting down Al Assad Air Base
1:36:00 – Coming residence
1:44:00 – Afghanistan: firm command in Zabul Province
2:08:00 – The JDAM that did not go off
2:25:00 – Assembly Amodi and what he realized about actual sacrifice
2:30:00 – Contained in the Particular Immigrant Visa program
2:54:00 – Tips on how to assist No One Left Behind
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