Non-public Navy Contractor Offers First-Hand Account of the Evacuation of the US Embassy in Kabul



“Are we going to get airlifted like Saigon” they nervously joked contained in the American Embassy in Kabul because the nation’s provinces shortly fell beneath Taliban management. Tom Gathright was a non-public army contractor that was despatched to Kabul solely weeks earlier than the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan started. A number of days later, the temper within the embassy started to shortly change.

Initially, the employees went about their every day enterprise just like the nation wasn’t falling aside. Paperwork forwarded for signature, ongoing building persevering with, and routine upkeep being performed. Then the primary order to start destroying delicate objects got here down. A number of objects at first – simply in case – however by the top of the day, the safety scenario was starting to daybreak on the Division of State management, and a mad sprint to destroy delicate objects started. “What are we going to do with this x-ray machine?” was heard as ideas of the Iranian siege of the American embassy crept into Gathright’s thoughts. “It in all probability wasn’t a good suggestion to observe Argo on the way in which over,” he mused.

Not 100% sure this wasn’t going to go south, Tom started researching doable escape routes in another country on Google Earth….

Hear Tom’s full description of the embassy evacuation and arrival of the primary US forces despatched to strengthen HKIA on Ep. 122 of the Former Motion Guys Podcast obtainable now on YouTube, Apple Podcast, Spotify and extra!

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