Without Biden consent...US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies

[The Purge]

With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the "Pineapple Express" to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety, members of the group told ABC News. Moving after nightfall in near-pitch black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it worked unofficially in tandem with the United States military and U.S. embassy to move people, sometimes one person at a time, or in pairs, but rarely more than a small bunch, inside the wire of the U.S. military-controlled side of Hamid Karzai International Airport.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com

It’s like the plot of a bad Hollywood movie. The US Army won’t do what’s necessary, so a bunch of old retired guys suit up and go overseas to kick some ass.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

This country is so done. I bet since Biden entered the White House our national IQ has been dropped by at least a point. My God...America is a fucking mudslide of stupidity.

 

[Votto]

Moe of us should ignore Biden and do what we know is right

 

[Claudette]

The Purge
Of course they did. I'd bet they worked with many of the Afghan friendlies and Special Forces leave no one behind.

 

[Augustine_]

With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the "Pineapple Express" to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety, members of the group told ABC News. Moving after nightfall in near-pitch black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it worked unofficially in tandem with the United States military and U.S. embassy to move people, sometimes one person at a time, or in pairs, but rarely more than a small bunch, inside the wire of the U.S. military-controlled side of Hamid Karzai International Airport.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com

It’s like the plot of a bad Hollywood movie. The US Army won’t do what’s necessary, so a bunch of old retired guys suit up and go overseas to kick some ass.

Good for them. I'm all for letting Americans choose to risk death voluntarily in far off desert wastelands. Put your money where your mouth is an join them.

 

[struth]

Sadly our brave service men and women have to ignore the Commend and Chief’s orders, risk their lives and careers to save lives Xiden and the dems are ignoring

 

[task0778]

This story made me feel better about America and who we are, some of us anyway. These guys are the reason I stand for the flag and the anthem, sure we have other people, times, and events in our history that were shameful, but such is the human condition. Sometimes we fuck up as a person and as a country, but IMHO we always try to do better.

With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the "Pineapple Express" to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety, members of the group told ABC News.

Moving after nightfall in near-pitch black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it worked unofficially in tandem with the United States military and U.S. embassy to move people, sometimes one person at a time, or in pairs, but rarely more than a small bunch, inside the wire of the U.S. military-controlled side of Hamid Karzai International Airport.
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As of Thursday morning, the group said it had brought as many as 500 Afghan special operators, assets and enablers and their families into the airport in Kabul overnight, handing them each over to the protective custody of the U.S. military.

That number added to more than 130 others over the past 10 days who had been smuggled into the airport encircled by Taliban fighters since the capital fell to the extremists on Aug. 16 by Task Force Pineapple, an ad hoc groups of current and former U.S. special operators, aid workers, intelligence officers and others with experience in Afghanistan who banded together to save as many Afghan allies as they could.
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"Dozens of high-risk individuals, families with small children, orphans, and pregnant women, were secretly moved through the streets of Kabul throughout the night and up to just seconds before ISIS detonated a bomb into the huddled mass of Afghans seeking safety and freedom," Army Lt. Col. Scott Mann, a retired Green Beret commander who led the private rescue effort, told ABC News.
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The operation carried out Wednesday night was an element of "Task Force Pineapple," an informal group whose mission began as a frantic effort on Aug. 15 to get one former Afghan commando who had served with Mann into the Kabul airport as he was being hunted by the Taliban who were texting him death threats.

They knew he had worked with U.S. Special Forces and the elite SEAL Team Six for a dozen years, targeting Taliban leadership, and was, therefore, a high-value target for them, sources told ABC News.

Two months ago, this commando told ABC News he had narrowly escaped a tiny outpost in northern Afghanistan that was later overrun while awaiting his U.S. special immigrant visa to be approved.

The effort since he was saved in a harrowing effort, along with his family of six, reached a crescendo this week with dozens of covert movements coordinated virtually on Wednesday by more than 50 people in an encrypted chat room, which Mann described as a night full of dramatic scenes rivaling a "Jason Bourne" thriller unfolding every 10 minutes.

The small groups of Afghans repeatedly encountered Taliban foot soldiers who they said beat them but never checked identity papers that might have revealed them as operators who spent two decades killing Taliban leadership. All carried U.S. visas, pending visa applications or new applications prepared by members of Task Force Pineapple, they told ABC News.

"This Herculean effort couldn't have been done without the unofficial heroes inside the airfield who defied their orders to not help beyond the airport perimeter, by wading into sewage canals and pulling in these targeted people who were flashing pineapples on their phones," Mann said.

With the uniformed U.S. military unable to venture outside the airport's perimeter to collect Americans and Afghans who've sought U.S. protection for their past joint service, they instead provided overwatch and awaited coordinated movements by an informal Pineapple Express ground team that included “conductors” led by former Green Beret Capt. Zac Lois, known as the underground railroad's “engineer.”

The Afghan operators, assets, interpreters and their families were known as “passengers” and they were being guided remotely by “shepherds," who are, in most cases their loyal former U.S. special operations forces and CIA comrades and commanders, according to chat room communications viewed by ABC News.
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"I have been involved in some of the most incredible missions and operations that a special forces guy could be a part of, and I have never been a part of anything more incredible than this," Gant told ABC News. "The bravery and courage and commitment of my brothers and sisters in the Pineapple community was greater than the U.S. commitment on the battlefield."
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Former deputy assistant secretary of defense and ABC News analyst Mick Mulroy is part of both Task Force Pineapple and Task Force Dunkirk, who are assisting former Afghan comrades.

"They never wavered. I and many of my friends are here today because of their bravery in battle. We owe them all effort to get them out and honor our word," Mulroy said.

US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies

With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the "Pineapple Express" to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their...

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Good to hear that somebody does.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

This story made me feel better about America and who we are, some of us anyway. These guys are the reason I stand for the flag and the anthem, sure we have other people, times, and events in our history that were shameful, but such is the human condition. Sometimes we fuck up as a person and as a country, but IMHO we always try to do better.

With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the "Pineapple Express" to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety, members of the group told ABC News.

Moving after nightfall in near-pitch black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it worked unofficially in tandem with the United States military and U.S. embassy to move people, sometimes one person at a time, or in pairs, but rarely more than a small bunch, inside the wire of the U.S. military-controlled side of Hamid Karzai International Airport.
.
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As of Thursday morning, the group said it had brought as many as 500 Afghan special operators, assets and enablers and their families into the airport in Kabul overnight, handing them each over to the protective custody of the U.S. military.

That number added to more than 130 others over the past 10 days who had been smuggled into the airport encircled by Taliban fighters since the capital fell to the extremists on Aug. 16 by Task Force Pineapple, an ad hoc groups of current and former U.S. special operators, aid workers, intelligence officers and others with experience in Afghanistan who banded together to save as many Afghan allies as they could.
.
.
"Dozens of high-risk individuals, families with small children, orphans, and pregnant women, were secretly moved through the streets of Kabul throughout the night and up to just seconds before ISIS detonated a bomb into the huddled mass of Afghans seeking safety and freedom," Army Lt. Col. Scott Mann, a retired Green Beret commander who led the private rescue effort, told ABC News.
.
.
The operation carried out Wednesday night was an element of "Task Force Pineapple," an informal group whose mission began as a frantic effort on Aug. 15 to get one former Afghan commando who had served with Mann into the Kabul airport as he was being hunted by the Taliban who were texting him death threats.

They knew he had worked with U.S. Special Forces and the elite SEAL Team Six for a dozen years, targeting Taliban leadership, and was, therefore, a high-value target for them, sources told ABC News.

Two months ago, this commando told ABC News he had narrowly escaped a tiny outpost in northern Afghanistan that was later overrun while awaiting his U.S. special immigrant visa to be approved.

The effort since he was saved in a harrowing effort, along with his family of six, reached a crescendo this week with dozens of covert movements coordinated virtually on Wednesday by more than 50 people in an encrypted chat room, which Mann described as a night full of dramatic scenes rivaling a "Jason Bourne" thriller unfolding every 10 minutes.

The small groups of Afghans repeatedly encountered Taliban foot soldiers who they said beat them but never checked identity papers that might have revealed them as operators who spent two decades killing Taliban leadership. All carried U.S. visas, pending visa applications or new applications prepared by members of Task Force Pineapple, they told ABC News.

"This Herculean effort couldn't have been done without the unofficial heroes inside the airfield who defied their orders to not help beyond the airport perimeter, by wading into sewage canals and pulling in these targeted people who were flashing pineapples on their phones," Mann said.

With the uniformed U.S. military unable to venture outside the airport's perimeter to collect Americans and Afghans who've sought U.S. protection for their past joint service, they instead provided overwatch and awaited coordinated movements by an informal Pineapple Express ground team that included “conductors” led by former Green Beret Capt. Zac Lois, known as the underground railroad's “engineer.”

The Afghan operators, assets, interpreters and their families were known as “passengers” and they were being guided remotely by “shepherds," who are, in most cases their loyal former U.S. special operations forces and CIA comrades and commanders, according to chat room communications viewed by ABC News.
.
.
"I have been involved in some of the most incredible missions and operations that a special forces guy could be a part of, and I have never been a part of anything more incredible than this," Gant told ABC News. "The bravery and courage and commitment of my brothers and sisters in the Pineapple community was greater than the U.S. commitment on the battlefield."
.
.
Former deputy assistant secretary of defense and ABC News analyst Mick Mulroy is part of both Task Force Pineapple and Task Force Dunkirk, who are assisting former Afghan comrades.

"They never wavered. I and many of my friends are here today because of their bravery in battle. We owe them all effort to get them out and honor our word," Mulroy said.

US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies

With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the "Pineapple Express" to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their...

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Good to hear that somebody does.

Despite the polemic--these guys did a good thing...I applaud them. Brother and sisters-in-arms---staying true to their honor.

 

[Doc7505]

I wonder how long before Traitor Joey Xi has these brave Patriots in prison with the 01-06 peaceful protestors?
Joey Xi Bai Dung appointed Antony Blinken as Sec of State Dept. which immediately ended a Trump era crisis management program that was aimed at avoiding Benghazi style evacuations. Trapping Americans in Afghanistan was premeditated by this government, there is no Way around it. Blinken is, working against America. Blinken must be forced to resign NOW. This is the least that Joey Xi can do. Regrettably that won't happen and Bai Dung will most likely applaud his incompetent actions.

 

[whitehall]

As much as I'd like to believe the story of grizzled old US Military Vets cobbled together to rescue Afghan refugees it doesn't fly with reality for a number of reasons. Sorry

 

[Doc7505]

‘Pineapple Express’: ​

US vets volunteer to secretly rescue allies in Afghanistan​

‘Pineapple Express’: US vets volunteer to secretly rescue allies in Afghanistan

The weeklong secret operation dubbed “Pineapple Express” has been carried out by a group of special ops veterans including retired Green Berets and SEAL Team commanders, they told ABC N…

nypost.com

Leaving a man behind is not in our Military ethos. Many Afghans have a stronger vision of our democratic values than many Americans do.
Joey Xi Bai Dung and his sycophant fellow Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat Leftists have no problem whatsoever leaving thing the hindmost to their fate.
Regrettably, when they return from their good deeds, this administration will probably find a way to paint them as terrorists or worse.

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Marine Battalion Commander Fired For Blasting Senior Military Leaders For Failures in Afghanistan that Resulted in 13 US Servicemen Dying (VIDEO)​

Marine Battalion Commander Fired For Blasting Senior Military Leaders For Failures in Afghanistan that Resulted in 13 US Servicemen Dying (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

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Watch this before Youtube censors this video....

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[whitehall]

"Pineapple express" allegedly composed of veteran Seals and "special Ops" guys and babes? Give me a break.

 

[Doc7505]

"Pineapple express" allegedly composed of veteran Seals and "special Ops" guys and babes? Give me a break.

Try this one on for size...

Glenn Beck’s Mission to Save Christian Afghans Draws Cheers, Eye Rolls​

Glenn Beck's Mission to Save Christian Afghans Draws Cheers, Eye Rolls - TheWrap

“Does a real Christian rescue only Christians?” one commenter asks

www.thewrap.com

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Glenn Beck claims US State Dept. and Biden's White House are BLOCKING his efforts to rescue Afghan Christians from the Taliban who 'want to set them on fire'​

Glenn Beck says State Department blocked attempts to rescue Christians

In an interview with FOX News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday, Glenn Beck revealed his organization has saved 5,100 Afghans from persecution, but is facing backlash from the State Department.

www.dailymail.co.uk

• Beck claimed on Thursday that the State Department blocked his rescue effort
• His group the Nazarene Fund is attempting to evacuate Afghan Christians
• He fears some were killed in suicide blast after being turned back at airport
• Beck said his organization has saved 5,100 Afghans from persecution
• It is unclear how many Christian Afghans are left in the country

Having seen the level of corruption, malfeasance. incompetence and debased behavior, I can see where Beck's claim is likely true and factual.

 

[Asclepias]

Moe of us should ignore Biden and do what we know is right

Why you still here talking on the message board? Book your flight to Afghanistan.

 

[Asclepias]

Sadly our brave service men and women have to ignore the Commend and Chief’s orders, risk their lives and careers to save lives Xiden and the dems are ignoring

You idiots that have never been in the military are funny. Biden doesnt give orders to the soldiers on the ground you idiot. Their chain of command does.

 

[candycorn]

Wonderful story.

I see we're back to not giving the President any credit for what the troops do when there is a success. For about 4 years there, their successes were the President's successes. Strange how that ebbs and flows.