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Sit down! 7 00:00:19,477 --> 00:00:20,770 Sit down! 8 00:00:21,855 --> 00:00:23,565 [gunfire] 9 00:00:23,648 --> 00:00:25,108 Sit down! - Sit down! 10 00:00:25,191 --> 00:00:26,901 - Sit down! 11 00:00:26,985 --> 00:00:29,904 [people screaming] 12 00:00:29,988 --> 00:00:34,993 ♪ ♪ 13 00:00:35,076 --> 00:00:37,746 - We just signed an agreement 14 00:00:37,829 --> 00:00:40,498 to bring our people back home. 15 00:00:40,582 --> 00:00:42,542 We want to bring our people back home. 16 00:00:44,294 --> 00:00:47,797 - We're ending America's longest war. 17 00:00:47,881 --> 00:00:50,300 I will not send another generation of Americans 18 00:00:50,383 --> 00:00:53,011 to war in Afghanistan. 19 00:00:53,094 --> 00:01:00,101 ♪ ♪ 20 00:01:05,356 --> 00:01:06,649 [gun cocking] 21 00:01:12,906 --> 00:01:15,200 [indistinct chatter] 22 00:01:15,283 --> 00:01:17,619 - I don't think we understood the scale 23 00:01:17,702 --> 00:01:20,163 and scope of what the evacuation 24 00:01:20,246 --> 00:01:21,414 would eventually turn into. 25 00:01:21,498 --> 00:01:24,751 [indistinct chatter] 26 00:01:24,834 --> 00:01:26,044 - Get back! 27 00:01:26,127 --> 00:01:27,420 - They kind of made it sound like, 28 00:01:27,504 --> 00:01:28,838 "Oh, it's gonna to be quick and simple. 29 00:01:28,922 --> 00:01:30,089 We're gonna be in and out." 30 00:01:30,173 --> 00:01:31,549 But that didn't happen here. 31 00:01:32,550 --> 00:01:33,843 - Get up! 32 00:01:33,927 --> 00:01:36,262 [child crying] 33 00:01:36,346 --> 00:01:39,808 - It was a humanitarian catastrophe. 34 00:01:39,891 --> 00:01:46,815 ♪ ♪ 35 00:01:47,565 --> 00:01:48,691 [horn honks] 36 00:01:48,775 --> 00:01:51,694 - [speaking an Afghan language] 37 00:01:55,824 --> 00:01:58,576 - [speaking an Afghan language] 38 00:02:01,412 --> 00:02:04,582 [engine revving] 39 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:09,754 - That was a terrifying time, and it was a full chaos. 40 00:02:09,838 --> 00:02:13,007 [people clamoring] 41 00:02:13,091 --> 00:02:15,301 Everyone was moving toward the airport 42 00:02:15,385 --> 00:02:16,928 to get out of Afghanistan. 43 00:02:17,011 --> 00:02:21,099 ♪ ♪ 44 00:02:21,182 --> 00:02:23,977 We fear that a war may start. 45 00:02:24,060 --> 00:02:25,770 We were all afraid. 46 00:02:25,854 --> 00:02:28,231 It was about our families, about loved ones. 47 00:02:28,314 --> 00:02:31,693 It was about the city that I was born in, I was raised in. 48 00:02:31,776 --> 00:02:38,741 ♪ ♪ 49 00:02:44,622 --> 00:02:46,207 - Yo, let's fucking go! 50 00:02:49,669 --> 00:02:50,712 - I'm the commanding officer 51 00:02:50,795 --> 00:02:52,755 for 1st battalion, 8th Marines. 52 00:02:52,839 --> 00:02:55,508 Around August 12th of 2021, 53 00:02:55,592 --> 00:02:57,927 that bell rang in the middle of the night 54 00:02:58,011 --> 00:03:01,139 and things got quick very fast. 55 00:03:01,222 --> 00:03:02,599 And by the 13th, we were 56 00:03:02,682 --> 00:03:04,100 standing in Afghanistan. 57 00:03:05,143 --> 00:03:06,769 - All right, you boys ready? - Yeah. 58 00:03:06,853 --> 00:03:07,979 - Gonna head out. 59 00:03:11,649 --> 00:03:13,318 - We went into Afghanistan 60 00:03:13,401 --> 00:03:15,278 just with what was on our backs. 61 00:03:15,361 --> 00:03:17,655 Came off the plane and immediately started working. 62 00:03:18,823 --> 00:03:20,575 I only had 150 people 63 00:03:20,658 --> 00:03:22,744 and didn't have much of the equipment that I needed 64 00:03:22,827 --> 00:03:25,079 in those first several days. 65 00:03:25,163 --> 00:03:26,372 - Here you go. 66 00:03:28,708 --> 00:03:31,711 - We knew we were there to begin the mission, 67 00:03:31,794 --> 00:03:34,297 which was evacuate the at-risk Afghans, 68 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:36,007 you know, the U.S. citizens. 69 00:03:37,383 --> 00:03:39,302 We kind of thought that it would be 70 00:03:39,385 --> 00:03:41,846 a relatively orderly process 71 00:03:41,930 --> 00:03:43,473 because security would be maintained 72 00:03:43,556 --> 00:03:45,308 at least around Kabul. 73 00:03:48,728 --> 00:03:51,064 We didn't think this was gonna turn into what it did. 74 00:03:51,147 --> 00:03:55,610 ♪ ♪ 75 00:03:55,693 --> 00:03:58,863 Kabul airport is kind of in a bowl. 76 00:03:58,947 --> 00:04:01,741 It's surrounded by mountainous terrain 77 00:04:01,824 --> 00:04:03,076 on the northern side 78 00:04:03,159 --> 00:04:04,661 that kind of wraps around to the west. 79 00:04:07,205 --> 00:04:08,331 - It's just a large airfield. 80 00:04:08,414 --> 00:04:10,625 It's a strategic location where 81 00:04:10,708 --> 00:04:12,627 lots of supplies and troops 82 00:04:12,710 --> 00:04:14,629 were brought in and out of country. 83 00:04:14,712 --> 00:04:16,714 You know, it was a military and civilian airport 84 00:04:16,798 --> 00:04:18,174 all at the same time. 85 00:04:18,257 --> 00:04:20,343 The CIA, the Afghans, 86 00:04:20,426 --> 00:04:22,220 and certainly some of our coalition partners 87 00:04:22,303 --> 00:04:26,015 had large portions of that base. 88 00:04:26,099 --> 00:04:28,685 There was kind of an outer perimeter wall. 89 00:04:28,768 --> 00:04:31,688 Everyone kind of had their piece of that large pie, 90 00:04:31,771 --> 00:04:32,689 if you will. 91 00:04:32,772 --> 00:04:37,026 ♪ ♪ 92 00:04:37,110 --> 00:04:39,362 So, you know, the first two days, 93 00:04:39,445 --> 00:04:40,863 everyone's manning their positions. 94 00:04:40,947 --> 00:04:42,323 Security's stable. 95 00:04:42,407 --> 00:04:43,533 Just business as usual. 96 00:04:43,616 --> 00:04:48,663 ♪ ♪ 97 00:04:48,746 --> 00:04:50,540 So planes were taking people out 98 00:04:50,623 --> 00:04:53,293 but not really Afghan civilians 99 00:04:53,376 --> 00:04:55,003 that I saw at this point. 100 00:04:55,086 --> 00:04:58,047 ♪ ♪ 101 00:04:58,131 --> 00:04:59,215 - Planes that were coming in and out 102 00:04:59,298 --> 00:05:01,509 were just taking the high-level Afghans, 103 00:05:01,592 --> 00:05:03,886 diplomats out of our embassy. 104 00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:06,264 You know, the civilian evacuation hadn't begun yet, 105 00:05:06,347 --> 00:05:08,266 so we were getting out 106 00:05:08,349 --> 00:05:09,600 the VIPs first. 107 00:05:09,684 --> 00:05:13,604 ♪ ♪ 108 00:05:13,688 --> 00:05:15,648 - Two days after we had gotten there-- 109 00:05:15,732 --> 00:05:16,899 you know, got there on the 13th, 110 00:05:16,983 --> 00:05:19,527 and the 15th, all hell broke loose. 111 00:05:19,610 --> 00:05:23,156 - On the 15th is when the Taliban entered Kabul. 112 00:05:23,239 --> 00:05:30,204 ♪ ♪ 113 00:05:59,525 --> 00:06:05,615 ♪ ♪ 114 00:06:05,698 --> 00:06:07,075 - [sighs] 115 00:06:21,881 --> 00:06:24,801 - [whispering indistinctly] 116 00:06:26,552 --> 00:06:27,845 - [speaking an Afghan language] 117 00:06:41,818 --> 00:06:48,783 ♪ ♪ 118 00:06:48,866 --> 00:06:52,370 - [speaking an Afghan language] 119 00:07:03,422 --> 00:07:04,590 [device clicks] 120 00:07:16,811 --> 00:07:21,732 ♪ ♪ 121 00:07:36,289 --> 00:07:41,377 ♪ ♪ 122 00:07:41,460 --> 00:07:43,504 - The first day I got to Kabul, 123 00:07:43,588 --> 00:07:45,590 we were not expecting that Kabul 124 00:07:45,673 --> 00:07:49,427 will fall down so quickly. 125 00:07:49,510 --> 00:07:51,721 ♪ ♪ 126 00:07:51,804 --> 00:07:54,765 [people speaking an Afghan language] 127 00:08:04,150 --> 00:08:07,153 [siren wailing] 128 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:15,119 [horns honking] 129 00:08:20,958 --> 00:08:24,629 ♪ ♪ 130 00:08:26,130 --> 00:08:29,091 - [speaking an Afghan language] 131 00:08:56,202 --> 00:09:03,167 ♪ ♪ 132 00:09:10,424 --> 00:09:12,677 - I come to the joint operations center 133 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:15,638 where our general is. 134 00:09:15,721 --> 00:09:20,643 That's when I learned that the government had collapsed, 135 00:09:20,726 --> 00:09:22,478 the Afghan president was gone, 136 00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:25,439 and the diplomatic mission 137 00:09:25,523 --> 00:09:27,275 in Afghanistan was closed. 138 00:09:27,358 --> 00:09:30,820 And we look up at the 10 or 20 TV screens, 139 00:09:30,903 --> 00:09:35,116 and all it showed was the civilian airport, 140 00:09:35,199 --> 00:09:36,909 the southern portion of the base, 141 00:09:36,993 --> 00:09:39,704 and thousands of people just running. 142 00:09:39,787 --> 00:09:43,958 And all I could do was drop the meal that I had picked up, 143 00:09:44,041 --> 00:09:47,837 put down the bottle of water, put my kit back on, 144 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,298 lock and load my rifle, look at a couple people 145 00:09:50,381 --> 00:09:53,009 and say, "You, with me," and we just ran, 146 00:09:53,092 --> 00:09:56,679 and the mass sea of humanity who wanted to evacuate 147 00:09:56,762 --> 00:09:58,514 was right there on our doorstep. 148 00:09:58,597 --> 00:10:01,517 [people shouting] 149 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:06,314 ♪ ♪ 150 00:10:06,397 --> 00:10:07,315 - A lot of families 151 00:10:07,398 --> 00:10:09,817 were carrying their travel bags 152 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:11,444 with theirselves and were going 153 00:10:11,527 --> 00:10:12,945 toward the airport. 154 00:10:13,029 --> 00:10:15,990 [gunfire] 155 00:10:17,908 --> 00:10:20,870 - [speaking an Afghan language] 156 00:10:25,041 --> 00:10:27,043 [gunfire] 157 00:10:28,002 --> 00:10:29,545 - [speaking an Afghan language] 158 00:10:33,132 --> 00:10:36,093 [gunfire] 159 00:10:47,521 --> 00:10:48,564 [gunshot] 160 00:10:48,647 --> 00:10:51,567 [people clamoring] 161 00:10:51,650 --> 00:10:57,823 ♪ ♪ 162 00:11:03,162 --> 00:11:06,123 [gunfire] 163 00:11:08,918 --> 00:11:11,962 - The initial push was probably about 5,000 people. 164 00:11:13,589 --> 00:11:15,257 - Civilians were already starting to come. 165 00:11:15,341 --> 00:11:17,093 They were starting to come and basically knock on the door 166 00:11:17,176 --> 00:11:18,594 and say, "I need to get out." 167 00:11:18,677 --> 00:11:20,805 And they would say, you know, "I have papers. 168 00:11:20,888 --> 00:11:24,141 "My husband was an interpreter and served with you guys. 169 00:11:24,225 --> 00:11:25,434 I need to get out." 170 00:11:25,518 --> 00:11:27,436 Women crying, showing up with all their kids 171 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:28,938 and extended family. 172 00:11:29,021 --> 00:11:33,651 We weren't really open for evacuation operations just yet. 173 00:11:33,734 --> 00:11:35,736 You know, we didn't have everyone there just yet. 174 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:42,410 ♪ ♪ 175 00:11:42,493 --> 00:11:44,578 We have a large portion of civilians 176 00:11:44,662 --> 00:11:46,580 that have finally gotten through the gate. 177 00:11:46,664 --> 00:11:48,332 The base is completely breached. 178 00:11:48,416 --> 00:11:50,376 The airfield's completely overrun. 179 00:11:52,086 --> 00:11:54,672 Those aircraft to them meant freedom. 180 00:11:54,755 --> 00:11:57,508 ♪ ♪ 181 00:11:57,591 --> 00:12:00,344 They just planted right there to block everything, 182 00:12:00,428 --> 00:12:03,556 you know, basically to say, "You will take me 183 00:12:03,639 --> 00:12:04,932 "in that thing right there, 184 00:12:05,015 --> 00:12:06,475 and I'm not moving until you do it." 185 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,687 [people yelling] 186 00:12:09,770 --> 00:12:11,814 And at this point, we've rousted 187 00:12:11,897 --> 00:12:14,608 the 150 marines that I have to open up the airfield. 188 00:12:14,692 --> 00:12:16,152 We had planes, you know, flying in the air, 189 00:12:16,235 --> 00:12:17,153 just loitering. 190 00:12:17,236 --> 00:12:18,487 They could not land. 191 00:12:20,156 --> 00:12:22,575 Anyone standing on that airfield, 192 00:12:22,658 --> 00:12:25,161 a plane can't land and a plane can't take off. 193 00:12:25,244 --> 00:12:28,164 So there's no way in or out right now. 194 00:12:28,247 --> 00:12:34,670 ♪ ♪ 195 00:12:34,753 --> 00:12:36,839 - We tried to push them back and keep them off 196 00:12:36,922 --> 00:12:39,717 of the runway so we could continue to land 197 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,511 our additional forces, continue to land supplies. 198 00:12:42,595 --> 00:12:43,929 'Cause that was our lifeline. 199 00:12:44,013 --> 00:12:46,348 If we lost that airfield, I have no doubt 200 00:12:46,432 --> 00:12:47,850 we would have all died. 201 00:12:47,933 --> 00:12:53,772 ♪ ♪ 202 00:12:53,856 --> 00:12:57,109 - So from midnight to about 5:00 in the morning, 203 00:12:57,193 --> 00:12:59,278 we pushed them back. 204 00:12:59,361 --> 00:13:01,780 And to try to put this into words, 205 00:13:01,864 --> 00:13:04,325 that fight that night, 206 00:13:04,408 --> 00:13:05,534 it was hand-to-hand. 207 00:13:05,618 --> 00:13:08,829 It was using rifles as impact weapons. 208 00:13:08,913 --> 00:13:11,749 Wasn't pleasant for them. It wasn't pleasant for us. 209 00:13:23,427 --> 00:13:27,890 ♪ ♪ 210 00:13:43,656 --> 00:13:47,660 ♪ ♪ 211 00:14:00,297 --> 00:14:06,679 ♪ ♪ 212 00:14:25,656 --> 00:14:31,662 ♪ ♪ 213 00:14:31,745 --> 00:14:34,248 - On, I guess, early morning on the 16th, 214 00:14:34,331 --> 00:14:36,417 some Taliban infiltrators in the crowd, 215 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:37,751 and they started to engage the marines 216 00:14:37,835 --> 00:14:38,919 that were on the airfield. 217 00:14:39,003 --> 00:14:41,839 That's when things started to get... 218 00:14:41,922 --> 00:14:43,132 a little crazy. 219 00:14:44,425 --> 00:14:48,554 - Right about sunup, this Taliban fighter appeared, 220 00:14:48,637 --> 00:14:50,347 firing his rifle in the air, 221 00:14:50,431 --> 00:14:53,309 and one of our marines killed him. 222 00:14:53,392 --> 00:14:57,313 One clean shot took his life. 223 00:14:57,396 --> 00:14:58,772 And that's when I fired my weapon 224 00:14:58,856 --> 00:15:00,774 and shot the second one in the chest. 225 00:15:00,858 --> 00:15:03,235 We'd been fighting these people for 20 years. 226 00:15:05,821 --> 00:15:08,490 So he was a target, he was a threat, and he had to go. 227 00:15:09,992 --> 00:15:12,328 [indistinct chatter] 228 00:15:12,411 --> 00:15:13,787 - There's this firefight that's happening 229 00:15:13,871 --> 00:15:15,414 right in front of us now 230 00:15:15,497 --> 00:15:17,958 while, you know, the numbers only continue to grow. 231 00:15:18,042 --> 00:15:21,045 [indistinct chatter] 232 00:15:24,590 --> 00:15:27,343 Now the number, I would say, is between 8,000 and 10,000. 233 00:15:27,426 --> 00:15:34,391 ♪ ♪ 234 00:15:41,065 --> 00:15:43,692 We had opened the airfield, so that was a huge win. 235 00:15:43,776 --> 00:15:48,656 ♪ ♪ 236 00:15:48,739 --> 00:15:52,076 - On the 16th of August when I woke up, 237 00:15:52,159 --> 00:15:55,537 all I heard was that this family has left, 238 00:15:55,621 --> 00:15:57,498 that family has left. 239 00:15:57,581 --> 00:16:01,877 And there was a rumor that around 900 people 240 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,838 were evacuated from Afghanistan, 241 00:16:04,922 --> 00:16:09,009 and people of different categories 242 00:16:09,093 --> 00:16:12,054 could leave Afghanistan on that night. 243 00:16:12,137 --> 00:16:17,518 ♪ ♪ 244 00:16:22,314 --> 00:16:28,153 ♪ ♪ 245 00:16:50,634 --> 00:16:53,804 ♪ ♪ 246 00:16:53,887 --> 00:16:57,641 [horns honking] 247 00:16:57,725 --> 00:17:03,731 ♪ ♪ 248 00:17:03,814 --> 00:17:07,067 - It was very dark times we spent in Afghanistan 249 00:17:07,151 --> 00:17:09,153 when Taliban took over. 250 00:17:11,113 --> 00:17:14,742 Before Taliban took over, we have a simple life-- 251 00:17:14,825 --> 00:17:16,368 not perfect. 252 00:17:16,452 --> 00:17:18,746 It was not perfect, but it was good. 253 00:17:20,330 --> 00:17:22,958 [speaking an Afghan language] 254 00:17:42,644 --> 00:17:45,939 - We are the main victims, like, women. 255 00:17:46,023 --> 00:17:50,110 And I fear that the changes that Afghan women brought 256 00:17:50,194 --> 00:17:52,279 to the Afghanistan-- 257 00:17:52,362 --> 00:17:54,656 like, they have fought and fought for years 258 00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:57,159 for the ability to get educated, 259 00:17:57,242 --> 00:17:59,787 for the ability to work, and on that day, 260 00:17:59,870 --> 00:18:03,665 I felt like all their efforts will be ruined in one day. 261 00:18:03,749 --> 00:18:06,835 ♪ ♪ 262 00:18:06,919 --> 00:18:11,048 - The women were thinking of killing, brutality, 263 00:18:11,131 --> 00:18:13,842 lashes, forced marriages. 264 00:18:13,926 --> 00:18:15,260 That is what 265 00:18:15,344 --> 00:18:16,595 all the women had in mind, 266 00:18:16,678 --> 00:18:18,013 specifically the women 267 00:18:18,096 --> 00:18:19,097 who were working, 268 00:18:19,181 --> 00:18:21,683 because they knew what the reality was, 269 00:18:21,767 --> 00:18:24,853 so that was a horror, insecurity, 270 00:18:24,937 --> 00:18:27,356 uncertainty, and brutality. 271 00:18:27,439 --> 00:18:31,860 ♪ ♪ 272 00:18:31,944 --> 00:18:34,947 [people speaking an Afghan language] 273 00:18:48,168 --> 00:18:51,338 ♪ ♪ 274 00:18:53,465 --> 00:18:55,926 [people clamoring] 275 00:18:56,009 --> 00:18:59,012 [horn blaring] 276 00:19:04,810 --> 00:19:07,688 [gunshots] 277 00:19:20,409 --> 00:19:24,079 [people clamoring] 278 00:19:42,639 --> 00:19:45,893 [gunfire] 279 00:19:45,976 --> 00:19:50,397 - Our mission was to not let anyone to leave the country. 280 00:19:52,149 --> 00:19:53,400 [siren wailing] 281 00:19:53,483 --> 00:19:56,612 [horns honking] 282 00:19:56,695 --> 00:20:01,033 ♪ ♪ 283 00:20:12,252 --> 00:20:15,088 ♪ ♪ 284 00:20:15,172 --> 00:20:18,133 [people clamoring] 285 00:20:20,552 --> 00:20:23,430 [gunfire, people screaming] 286 00:20:23,513 --> 00:20:30,270 ♪ ♪ 287 00:20:31,396 --> 00:20:34,274 - [speaking an Afghan language] 288 00:20:54,211 --> 00:20:57,714 ♪ ♪ 289 00:20:57,798 --> 00:20:59,508 - Boy, that whole base was porous. 290 00:20:59,591 --> 00:21:01,343 It really was. 291 00:21:01,426 --> 00:21:02,552 There were a lot of weak points. 292 00:21:02,636 --> 00:21:07,182 ♪ ♪ 293 00:21:07,265 --> 00:21:09,351 We were certainly having breaches in security 294 00:21:09,434 --> 00:21:11,311 all over the base, people just jumping the walls 295 00:21:11,395 --> 00:21:12,521 and then trying to get in. 296 00:21:12,604 --> 00:21:18,819 ♪ ♪ 297 00:21:18,902 --> 00:21:21,822 [people clamoring] 298 00:21:21,905 --> 00:21:28,870 ♪ ♪ 299 00:21:30,622 --> 00:21:32,249 - People started coming over fences, 300 00:21:32,332 --> 00:21:33,542 coming through the airport. 301 00:21:33,625 --> 00:21:36,586 [indistinct chatter] 302 00:21:36,670 --> 00:21:42,926 ♪ ♪ 303 00:21:43,010 --> 00:21:44,261 [people clamoring] 304 00:21:44,344 --> 00:21:45,721 [gunfire] 305 00:21:45,804 --> 00:21:52,769 ♪ ♪ 306 00:21:55,647 --> 00:21:57,566 [gunfire] 307 00:21:57,649 --> 00:22:00,193 [cell phone ringing] 308 00:22:00,277 --> 00:22:03,280 [indistinct chatter] 309 00:22:05,907 --> 00:22:08,869 - It's 10:00. I look over to my left. 310 00:22:08,952 --> 00:22:11,246 Thousands just start pouring through another hole 311 00:22:11,329 --> 00:22:12,748 in the wall that we didn't even know-- 312 00:22:12,831 --> 00:22:14,499 we didn't know that portion of the base. 313 00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:20,297 ♪ ♪ 314 00:22:20,380 --> 00:22:23,175 I think the estimate was 24,000 Afghans 315 00:22:23,258 --> 00:22:24,843 inside the airport 316 00:22:24,926 --> 00:22:27,804 with untold numbers outside the airport. 317 00:22:27,888 --> 00:22:34,895 ♪ ♪ 318 00:22:41,485 --> 00:22:44,196 So now we have to split the already small force 319 00:22:44,279 --> 00:22:47,365 that we have to run back across the airfield, 320 00:22:47,449 --> 00:22:49,534 go get those people, corral them, 321 00:22:49,618 --> 00:22:54,039 and just start pushing them back for several hours. 322 00:22:54,122 --> 00:22:56,375 - The runway was the mission. 323 00:22:56,458 --> 00:22:58,877 Keep the runway open at all costs. 324 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,880 [gunfire, people screaming] 325 00:23:05,133 --> 00:23:08,428 [plane engine roaring] 326 00:23:08,512 --> 00:23:15,435 ♪ ♪ 327 00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:18,980 [gunshots] 328 00:23:22,192 --> 00:23:25,153 [gunfire] 329 00:23:33,954 --> 00:23:35,622 [gunfire] - Back up! 330 00:23:35,705 --> 00:23:38,291 Back up! Back up! Back up! 331 00:23:38,375 --> 00:23:40,377 Back up! - Back the fuck up! 332 00:23:40,460 --> 00:23:43,421 [gunfire] 333 00:23:46,424 --> 00:23:48,343 - That was the first moment 334 00:23:48,426 --> 00:23:52,013 that I thought I was going to die. 335 00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:54,182 The threat of a suicide bomber 336 00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:58,895 or a lone wolf with a weapon-- 337 00:23:58,979 --> 00:24:00,147 I mean, none of these people were searched. 338 00:24:00,230 --> 00:24:01,648 I don't know what they had on them. 339 00:24:01,731 --> 00:24:06,027 Could have easily taken all of us out in an instant. 340 00:24:06,111 --> 00:24:09,030 [gunfire] 341 00:24:09,114 --> 00:24:13,076 ♪ ♪ 342 00:24:18,623 --> 00:24:21,543 - We've got thousands of people panicked. 343 00:24:21,626 --> 00:24:24,629 - [speaking an Afghan language] 344 00:24:54,159 --> 00:24:58,538 ♪ ♪ 345 00:24:58,622 --> 00:25:00,707 - So to clear a path for the aircraft, 346 00:25:00,790 --> 00:25:02,209 we had Apaches 347 00:25:02,292 --> 00:25:05,754 essentially fly as low as they possibly could 348 00:25:05,837 --> 00:25:08,423 to physically push the people out of the way. 349 00:25:08,506 --> 00:25:15,472 ♪ ♪ 350 00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:26,816 - Then a C-17 comes in, 351 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:28,026 'cause the airfield's open. 352 00:25:28,109 --> 00:25:35,075 ♪ ♪ 353 00:25:48,380 --> 00:25:50,215 There's just mass hysteria. 354 00:25:50,298 --> 00:25:52,425 You could see in their eyes. 355 00:25:52,509 --> 00:25:54,177 They just immediately overran us. 356 00:25:54,261 --> 00:25:57,597 They just pushed us aside, ran over marines, 357 00:25:57,681 --> 00:25:59,683 punching, clawing, screaming. 358 00:25:59,766 --> 00:26:01,476 We shut the airfield down again. 359 00:26:01,559 --> 00:26:04,479 [people yelling] 360 00:26:04,562 --> 00:26:10,485 ♪ ♪ 361 00:26:25,041 --> 00:26:26,835 - That's the beacon of hope and freedom to them. 362 00:26:26,918 --> 00:26:29,045 They think they need to get on that to get out. 363 00:26:29,129 --> 00:26:36,094 ♪ ♪ 364 00:26:42,267 --> 00:26:45,312 And so now it's the long kilometer-and-a-half run back, 365 00:26:45,395 --> 00:26:47,522 you know, as we're chasing everybody. 366 00:26:47,605 --> 00:26:53,987 ♪ ♪ 367 00:26:54,070 --> 00:26:55,655 My position at that point was, 368 00:26:55,739 --> 00:26:57,699 get the people in front of me back. 369 00:26:59,701 --> 00:27:01,119 And it was just a straight brawl. 370 00:27:01,202 --> 00:27:05,832 ♪ ♪ 371 00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:08,001 You know, I'm still getting radio calls now 372 00:27:08,084 --> 00:27:09,544 from the operations center, saying, 373 00:27:09,627 --> 00:27:12,005 "Hey, the airfield is not open anymore. 374 00:27:12,088 --> 00:27:13,548 You need to get these people off." 375 00:27:13,631 --> 00:27:15,759 I'm like, "I got it. We need to get the people off." 376 00:27:15,842 --> 00:27:22,849 ♪ ♪ 377 00:27:32,233 --> 00:27:34,652 The people are just all around it, 378 00:27:34,736 --> 00:27:38,156 and I get up to where I know the pilot 379 00:27:38,239 --> 00:27:40,200 would be able to see me if he looked over. 380 00:27:40,283 --> 00:27:42,535 And he finally looked over like this, 381 00:27:42,619 --> 00:27:44,913 and he makes eye contact with me, and I just-- 382 00:27:44,996 --> 00:27:49,125 I pointed at him, and I said, "You need to go now," 383 00:27:49,209 --> 00:27:52,921 and he very slowly started moving that C-17. 384 00:27:55,965 --> 00:28:02,931 ♪ ♪ 385 00:28:19,656 --> 00:28:22,242 - The people kind of climbed on the airplane. 386 00:28:23,827 --> 00:28:25,578 Maybe they thought that was their way to get out 387 00:28:25,662 --> 00:28:27,330 of Afghanistan was to ride on the outside 388 00:28:27,414 --> 00:28:29,290 of a C-17 somewhere. 389 00:28:29,374 --> 00:28:35,422 ♪ ♪ 390 00:28:35,505 --> 00:28:37,549 - I see the C-17 gaining speed. 391 00:28:40,677 --> 00:28:43,096 And as, you know, we're kind of at each other's throats-- 392 00:28:43,179 --> 00:28:45,348 it's one of this where we kind of stop and watch 393 00:28:45,432 --> 00:28:48,977 as the C-17 captures the attention of the entire crowd 394 00:28:49,060 --> 00:28:50,520 and everything just goes silent. 395 00:28:50,603 --> 00:28:57,444 ♪ ♪ 396 00:29:01,364 --> 00:29:04,033 [plane engine roaring] 397 00:29:06,703 --> 00:29:08,037 - Oh! 398 00:29:20,091 --> 00:29:22,510 - [speaking an Afghan language] 399 00:29:39,235 --> 00:29:42,530 - That kind of deflated the entire situation. 400 00:29:42,614 --> 00:29:45,325 C-17 was finally gone. 401 00:29:45,408 --> 00:29:47,869 Those people had fallen. 402 00:29:47,952 --> 00:29:50,705 Maybe some of the people on the ground there realized, 403 00:29:50,788 --> 00:29:52,665 "Okay, there's got to be another way, 404 00:29:52,749 --> 00:29:54,834 'cause they're not letting us out right now." 405 00:29:54,918 --> 00:29:58,505 [indistinct chatter] 406 00:29:58,588 --> 00:30:00,548 So now we're getting to the end of-- 407 00:30:00,632 --> 00:30:01,925 really, it would have been a day and a half 408 00:30:02,008 --> 00:30:03,426 at this point, 409 00:30:03,510 --> 00:30:06,554 and more people started to come. 410 00:30:06,638 --> 00:30:08,056 The sun's starting to go down. 411 00:30:08,139 --> 00:30:11,643 We've lost the airfield several more times. 412 00:30:14,270 --> 00:30:16,397 For every commander, 413 00:30:16,481 --> 00:30:19,692 you never want to tell your men you don't know what to do. 414 00:30:19,776 --> 00:30:22,070 In that moment, I had no idea what to do. 415 00:30:22,153 --> 00:30:25,114 [people clamoring] 416 00:30:26,533 --> 00:30:28,868 I get a call on the radio. 417 00:30:28,952 --> 00:30:30,912 They call and tell me that we're gonna partner 418 00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:32,872 with an Afghan special forces unit 419 00:30:32,956 --> 00:30:34,541 who's gonna come help us. 420 00:30:34,624 --> 00:30:36,251 I'm thinking, "This is great. 421 00:30:36,334 --> 00:30:39,254 "Okay, this is a host nation force 422 00:30:39,337 --> 00:30:42,840 "that knows this culture, speaks this language. 423 00:30:42,924 --> 00:30:43,925 They're gonna help out." 424 00:30:44,008 --> 00:30:45,802 Really, at this point, I just need extra people. 425 00:30:45,885 --> 00:30:46,928 I don't care who it is. 426 00:30:47,011 --> 00:30:50,056 ♪ ♪ 427 00:30:50,139 --> 00:30:52,934 The Afghan unit that was there, 428 00:30:53,017 --> 00:30:55,436 the way they got the people off 429 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,772 to get the point was just running everyone over 430 00:30:57,855 --> 00:30:58,982 and shooting them. 431 00:30:59,065 --> 00:31:00,316 - They killed them. 432 00:31:01,734 --> 00:31:02,902 - I watched from afar. 433 00:31:02,986 --> 00:31:04,946 It was dark at this point, 434 00:31:05,029 --> 00:31:07,407 so I could only see who was getting run over and shot 435 00:31:07,490 --> 00:31:09,742 by a vehicle headlight. 436 00:31:11,703 --> 00:31:13,830 That was a horrific, horrific scene. 437 00:31:13,913 --> 00:31:16,874 [indistinct chatter] 438 00:31:19,752 --> 00:31:22,171 [gunfire] 439 00:31:22,255 --> 00:31:26,301 - There was people getting executed on the airfield, 440 00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:29,929 and it was horrible to see that happen. 441 00:31:32,390 --> 00:31:34,183 But it cleared out the airfield. 442 00:31:34,267 --> 00:31:37,854 - And that Afghan unit, 443 00:31:37,937 --> 00:31:39,772 their arrival's what quelled the airfield. 444 00:31:39,856 --> 00:31:41,399 I don't know what would have happened on the airfield 445 00:31:41,482 --> 00:31:42,900 if they wouldn't have come. 446 00:31:42,984 --> 00:31:45,278 - That night and that next morning, 447 00:31:45,361 --> 00:31:48,823 there were no more large crowds. 448 00:31:48,906 --> 00:31:55,913 ♪ ♪ 449 00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:05,381 - [speaking an Afghan language] 450 00:32:14,307 --> 00:32:17,268 [indistinct chatter] 451 00:33:13,116 --> 00:33:16,035 - [speaking an Afghan language] 452 00:34:41,037 --> 00:34:47,043 ♪ ♪ 453 00:35:04,143 --> 00:35:07,855 ♪ ♪ 454 00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:12,652 - I was the acting minister for women's affairs. 455 00:35:12,735 --> 00:35:13,945 I was told that, 456 00:35:14,028 --> 00:35:15,071 "If you do not leave 457 00:35:15,154 --> 00:35:16,906 "in the coming three days, 458 00:35:16,989 --> 00:35:19,033 you will be assassinated." 459 00:35:19,116 --> 00:35:22,829 And that is when I decided to leave the country. 460 00:35:23,871 --> 00:35:30,878 ♪ ♪ 461 00:35:35,132 --> 00:35:36,717 - We're getting into the 17th. 462 00:35:36,801 --> 00:35:38,344 The airfield's open. 463 00:35:39,470 --> 00:35:41,430 More marines are starting to come in now. 464 00:35:42,932 --> 00:35:45,560 We start establishing security at some of the outer gates 465 00:35:45,643 --> 00:35:47,228 where we're gonna start processing operations, 466 00:35:47,311 --> 00:35:49,647 i.e., pull in people 467 00:35:49,730 --> 00:35:50,857 through these gates 468 00:35:50,940 --> 00:35:52,859 and move them to the terminal 469 00:35:52,942 --> 00:35:54,527 to process to then 470 00:35:54,610 --> 00:35:56,112 put them on planes, 471 00:35:56,195 --> 00:35:59,323 you know, to formally start the evacuation. 472 00:35:59,407 --> 00:36:02,910 ♪ ♪ 473 00:36:02,994 --> 00:36:05,037 And we were gonna have three processing points: 474 00:36:05,121 --> 00:36:07,582 North Gate and East Gate, 475 00:36:07,665 --> 00:36:11,043 and then Abbey Gate was the other one. 476 00:36:11,127 --> 00:36:13,170 And there were many, many more people 477 00:36:13,254 --> 00:36:14,755 trying to come through than we thought. 478 00:36:14,839 --> 00:36:17,592 ♪ ♪ 479 00:36:17,675 --> 00:36:20,803 - We started getting more forces in off the planes. 480 00:36:20,887 --> 00:36:24,515 The sea of humans just started to appear outside the gates. 481 00:36:26,142 --> 00:36:29,061 The other gates hadn't got bad yet. 482 00:36:29,145 --> 00:36:32,023 [people shouting] 483 00:36:32,106 --> 00:36:38,154 ♪ ♪ 484 00:36:38,237 --> 00:36:40,573 - Push back. Push back. 485 00:36:40,656 --> 00:36:43,743 Push back! You need to back up! 486 00:36:43,826 --> 00:36:45,453 You need to stop asking the marines, 487 00:36:45,536 --> 00:36:46,829 you need to back up, 488 00:36:46,913 --> 00:36:49,415 and you need to get in order! 489 00:36:49,498 --> 00:36:51,751 This is not going to work! 490 00:36:51,834 --> 00:36:53,461 - Once we got to those gates, 491 00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:55,379 we couldn't start accepting people in yet 492 00:36:55,463 --> 00:36:57,465 because we didn't have the tactics available 493 00:36:57,548 --> 00:36:58,758 to be able to work the gates. 494 00:36:58,841 --> 00:37:00,009 We had to get people in place. 495 00:37:00,092 --> 00:37:01,969 We had to get depth in place to protect the gate. 496 00:37:02,053 --> 00:37:04,472 ♪ ♪ 497 00:37:04,555 --> 00:37:06,682 We were checking on our positions, 498 00:37:06,766 --> 00:37:10,102 dug in, in case we took fire from the Taliban again. 499 00:37:12,939 --> 00:37:14,607 - It's crazy, yo. 500 00:37:14,690 --> 00:37:16,859 - We're going out. - Good. 501 00:37:18,861 --> 00:37:20,154 - Our higher echelons of command, 502 00:37:20,237 --> 00:37:21,781 our generals and our admirals, 503 00:37:21,864 --> 00:37:23,616 were interacting with the Taliban leadership 504 00:37:23,699 --> 00:37:24,825 at that point. 505 00:37:24,909 --> 00:37:27,578 They were setting conditions for us to get out on time. 506 00:37:27,662 --> 00:37:30,081 "31st, you're out of here." 507 00:37:32,208 --> 00:37:34,543 We're getting all sorts of requests coming down, 508 00:37:34,627 --> 00:37:36,337 and this one's coming from the top. 509 00:37:36,420 --> 00:37:39,799 I'm being told, "Hey, we're working with the Taliban now." 510 00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:42,176 Working with the Taliban? 511 00:37:42,259 --> 00:37:43,594 I just killed a bunch of Taliban. 512 00:37:43,678 --> 00:37:44,762 What are you talking about? 513 00:37:44,845 --> 00:37:47,264 - A deal with the Taliban had been struck. 514 00:37:48,099 --> 00:37:52,687 So we had this weird quasi-peace with these guys. 515 00:37:52,770 --> 00:37:54,188 - They're doing outer security. 516 00:37:54,271 --> 00:37:56,440 We're doing inner security, holding the gate. 517 00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:59,485 Taliban are there with the people. 518 00:37:59,568 --> 00:38:03,656 The dynamic was changing right before our eyes. 519 00:38:03,739 --> 00:38:04,657 - It blew my mind, you know. 520 00:38:04,740 --> 00:38:05,616 They told us, you know, 521 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:06,617 they're gonna help us 522 00:38:06,701 --> 00:38:07,618 with crowd control, 523 00:38:07,702 --> 00:38:08,619 and we're like, 524 00:38:08,703 --> 00:38:09,829 "What do you mean? 525 00:38:09,912 --> 00:38:11,497 What do you mean we're working with the Taliban?" 526 00:38:11,580 --> 00:38:14,792 Like, I couldn't believe it. 527 00:38:25,302 --> 00:38:26,595 - I'll never forget standing shoulder to shoulder 528 00:38:26,679 --> 00:38:28,723 with the Taliban 529 00:38:28,806 --> 00:38:33,394 and the deep-seated feeling of hatred 530 00:38:33,477 --> 00:38:35,396 I had as I looked at him in his eyes 531 00:38:35,479 --> 00:38:38,399 and the tingly feeling going up and down my spine 532 00:38:38,482 --> 00:38:40,651 and the instinct to want to fight. 533 00:38:40,735 --> 00:38:42,361 You could tell it was in them as well. 534 00:38:42,445 --> 00:38:46,240 They didn't look at us with any favor in their eyes. 535 00:38:46,323 --> 00:38:48,284 [indistinct chatter] 536 00:38:58,377 --> 00:39:01,756 ♪ ♪ 537 00:39:20,191 --> 00:39:27,198 ♪ ♪ 538 00:39:44,381 --> 00:39:47,676 [indistinct chatter] 539 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,471 - My function was that of the American ambassador 540 00:39:50,554 --> 00:39:53,182 to Afghanistan. 541 00:39:53,265 --> 00:39:57,686 After I got to the airport, we were able to contemplate 542 00:39:57,770 --> 00:39:59,647 the crowds outside now 543 00:39:59,730 --> 00:40:01,107 and how to deal with them 544 00:40:01,190 --> 00:40:04,318 and how to get those that we want to evacuate 545 00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:06,612 out of the country, how to make that happen. 546 00:40:06,695 --> 00:40:10,491 ♪ ♪ 547 00:40:10,574 --> 00:40:12,326 - So the marines are just trying to figure out security, 548 00:40:12,409 --> 00:40:14,453 and when I say that, I mean, like, 549 00:40:14,537 --> 00:40:19,166 it's 30 marines there against 3,000 people pushing. 550 00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:26,298 ♪ ♪ 551 00:40:28,717 --> 00:40:30,511 - What we didn't anticipate 552 00:40:30,594 --> 00:40:34,014 was the sheer desperation and fear 553 00:40:34,098 --> 00:40:36,183 and willingness of the people 554 00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:37,643 to put themselves 555 00:40:37,726 --> 00:40:39,520 at tremendous risk 556 00:40:39,603 --> 00:40:40,521 to get themselves 557 00:40:40,604 --> 00:40:41,480 and their families 558 00:40:41,564 --> 00:40:42,940 out of Afghanistan. 559 00:40:43,023 --> 00:40:45,985 [people clamoring] 560 00:40:49,363 --> 00:40:50,865 - What the fuck are we doing? 561 00:40:50,948 --> 00:40:52,700 - Okay, number one! 562 00:40:52,783 --> 00:40:54,994 - Let's go! Push back! 563 00:40:55,077 --> 00:40:57,121 Push back! - Push back! 564 00:40:57,204 --> 00:41:00,040 - It was a fight every minute of every single day. 565 00:41:00,124 --> 00:41:01,333 'Cause if they broke through the gate 566 00:41:01,417 --> 00:41:04,587 and got onto the airfield, like, we fail our mission. 567 00:41:04,670 --> 00:41:06,213 - Back up! Back up! 568 00:41:06,297 --> 00:41:08,048 Back up! 569 00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:09,675 Back the fuck up! 570 00:41:09,758 --> 00:41:13,387 Back the fuck up! Back the fuck up! 571 00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:14,555 [gunfire] 572 00:41:14,638 --> 00:41:15,931 - Get back! 573 00:41:17,766 --> 00:41:19,226 Back up! 574 00:41:19,310 --> 00:41:20,769 [people shouting] 575 00:41:20,853 --> 00:41:22,104 - Let's go, let's go. 576 00:41:23,689 --> 00:41:25,441 - Once we established the gates, 577 00:41:25,524 --> 00:41:28,861 that's when the grind really began. 578 00:41:28,944 --> 00:41:30,905 We had to figure out how to work these gates. 579 00:41:30,988 --> 00:41:32,364 How can we open the gate, 580 00:41:32,448 --> 00:41:35,367 let a few people in to get screened and processed, 581 00:41:35,451 --> 00:41:38,704 and then shut the gate without losing it, 582 00:41:38,787 --> 00:41:41,874 without the flood coming? 583 00:41:41,957 --> 00:41:45,252 - Families stick together! Families stick together! 584 00:41:45,336 --> 00:41:47,254 Back up! [grunts] 585 00:41:47,338 --> 00:41:50,299 - [screaming] 586 00:41:50,382 --> 00:41:55,095 ♪ ♪ 587 00:41:55,179 --> 00:41:56,430 - Back the fuck up. 588 00:41:56,513 --> 00:41:58,599 - [crying] 589 00:41:58,682 --> 00:42:00,601 - Come on, get up. Come on, get up. 590 00:42:02,728 --> 00:42:04,104 - So when we started working the gates, 591 00:42:04,188 --> 00:42:06,440 that's when the human disaster 592 00:42:06,523 --> 00:42:08,734 of this entire operation started. 593 00:42:08,817 --> 00:42:11,570 When you have miles of people 594 00:42:11,654 --> 00:42:14,865 shoulder to shoulder, on top of each other, 595 00:42:14,949 --> 00:42:17,576 they're just sitting there waiting to get their turn 596 00:42:17,660 --> 00:42:19,453 to go through the gate. 597 00:42:19,536 --> 00:42:23,499 [people clamoring] 598 00:42:23,582 --> 00:42:26,460 - The situation on the ground is, like, something 599 00:42:26,543 --> 00:42:28,504 like I've never experienced before 600 00:42:28,587 --> 00:42:30,673 in any of my deployments. 601 00:42:30,756 --> 00:42:32,633 And, you know, we just did the best 602 00:42:32,716 --> 00:42:34,176 that we possibly could. 603 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,680 [gunshots] 604 00:42:37,763 --> 00:42:40,266 [people clamoring] 605 00:42:40,349 --> 00:42:43,352 - Daily life on those gates wasn't clean. 606 00:42:43,435 --> 00:42:44,895 It was dirty. 607 00:42:44,979 --> 00:42:46,188 It was stress-filled. 608 00:42:46,272 --> 00:42:47,606 - Get him up. 609 00:42:47,690 --> 00:42:49,149 [people yelling] 610 00:42:49,233 --> 00:42:50,401 Get up! 611 00:42:50,484 --> 00:42:57,449 ♪ ♪ 612 00:42:57,533 --> 00:42:59,285 No, get back! Get back! 613 00:42:59,368 --> 00:43:00,619 Get back! Get back! 614 00:43:09,128 --> 00:43:12,089 [people clamoring] 615 00:43:27,813 --> 00:43:31,775 ♪ ♪ 616 00:43:43,329 --> 00:43:46,582 [indistinct chatter] 617 00:43:47,374 --> 00:43:51,879 - When we went to the airport, we came to Abbey Gate. 618 00:43:51,962 --> 00:43:54,214 Taliban were standing there. 619 00:43:54,298 --> 00:43:57,760 We were afraid of being targeted. 620 00:43:57,843 --> 00:44:00,429 We came down, there was no electricity, 621 00:44:00,512 --> 00:44:03,140 so it was good because it was dark. 622 00:44:03,223 --> 00:44:04,683 No one could see us. 623 00:44:04,767 --> 00:44:06,560 [indistinct chatter] 624 00:44:06,643 --> 00:44:08,562 It was so crowded that you would say 625 00:44:08,645 --> 00:44:10,731 there is no oxygen in the air. 626 00:44:10,814 --> 00:44:13,776 [indistinct chatter] 627 00:44:16,987 --> 00:44:19,990 [people clamoring] 628 00:44:21,325 --> 00:44:27,706 ♪ ♪ 629 00:44:34,838 --> 00:44:37,800 - [speaking an Afghan language] 630 00:44:47,017 --> 00:44:53,941 ♪ ♪ 631 00:45:32,187 --> 00:45:35,566 ♪ ♪ 632 00:45:48,245 --> 00:45:49,663 [people clamoring] 633 00:45:49,746 --> 00:45:52,249 [gunfire] 634 00:45:52,332 --> 00:45:55,335 [people screaming] 635 00:45:57,087 --> 00:45:58,338 - Hey! 636 00:45:58,422 --> 00:46:00,591 Hey! Hey! 637 00:46:13,437 --> 00:46:15,772 - Go! Get back! Go! Go! 638 00:46:15,856 --> 00:46:17,691 Get back! Get back! 639 00:46:17,774 --> 00:46:19,818 You need to go that way! 640 00:46:31,121 --> 00:46:33,457 [gunfire] 641 00:46:33,540 --> 00:46:35,501 [people clamoring] 642 00:46:35,584 --> 00:46:37,669 - We were using nonlethal munitions, 643 00:46:37,753 --> 00:46:39,379 riot control weapons. 644 00:46:39,463 --> 00:46:41,757 - Get back! 645 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:43,425 - We were aggressive. 646 00:46:43,509 --> 00:46:47,095 We took a very aggressive stance with our security. 647 00:46:48,138 --> 00:46:49,932 - Get back! Go! 648 00:46:50,974 --> 00:46:52,059 - CS gas. 649 00:46:53,977 --> 00:46:55,103 - Rounds? 650 00:46:55,187 --> 00:46:57,606 [people clamoring] 651 00:46:58,857 --> 00:47:02,069 - Rubber bullets fired from shotguns. 652 00:47:03,904 --> 00:47:06,865 [people speaking an Afghan language] 653 00:47:11,078 --> 00:47:12,579 - Hey, hey! 654 00:47:12,663 --> 00:47:16,083 We need flash-bangs. We need nonlethal grenades. 655 00:47:17,793 --> 00:47:19,211 - Money. 656 00:47:20,837 --> 00:47:23,799 - [speaking an Afghan language] 657 00:47:38,730 --> 00:47:41,608 [people clamoring] 658 00:47:41,692 --> 00:47:48,699 ♪ ♪ 659 00:48:21,523 --> 00:48:23,150 [gunshots] 660 00:48:24,067 --> 00:48:27,237 [gunfire] 661 00:48:39,708 --> 00:48:41,668 [gunshots] 662 00:49:09,738 --> 00:49:13,283 - [screaming in an Afghan language] 663 00:49:13,367 --> 00:49:16,328 [gunfire] 664 00:49:22,417 --> 00:49:28,382 ♪ ♪ 665 00:49:28,465 --> 00:49:31,593 - I went to the airport, 666 00:49:31,677 --> 00:49:33,387 and it was not sure whether you will be able 667 00:49:33,470 --> 00:49:35,555 to get to the gate or not. 668 00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:36,932 So we returned. 669 00:49:37,015 --> 00:49:38,266 But that scene will 670 00:49:38,350 --> 00:49:39,851 always remain in my mind. 671 00:49:39,935 --> 00:49:45,524 ♪ ♪ 672 00:49:45,607 --> 00:49:48,777 [people clamoring] 673 00:49:48,860 --> 00:49:51,488 - If you have a passport, you got to go that way. 674 00:49:51,571 --> 00:49:54,241 If you have a passport, go that way. 675 00:49:54,324 --> 00:49:55,409 [people screaming] 676 00:49:55,492 --> 00:49:57,619 - No, wait. - Get up! Get back! 677 00:49:57,703 --> 00:49:58,745 - Get back. Get back. 678 00:49:58,829 --> 00:50:00,831 - You know, there was some letter 679 00:50:00,914 --> 00:50:02,207 that the Department of State 680 00:50:02,290 --> 00:50:05,001 was supposed to send out to people. 681 00:50:06,336 --> 00:50:07,963 But we quickly realized that everyone 682 00:50:08,046 --> 00:50:09,589 was just AirDropping that letter 683 00:50:09,673 --> 00:50:11,383 or screenshotting a picture of that letter 684 00:50:11,466 --> 00:50:12,884 and sending it to everyone, 685 00:50:12,968 --> 00:50:15,095 'cause it didn't have, like, specific people's names on it. 686 00:50:15,178 --> 00:50:18,640 [indistinct chatter] 687 00:50:18,724 --> 00:50:21,101 - And you got people, and some of them are, 688 00:50:21,184 --> 00:50:23,019 you know, yelling at us, "Help me. I have this paper. 689 00:50:23,103 --> 00:50:24,271 I have this letter from the embassy." 690 00:50:24,354 --> 00:50:27,399 Some of them are showing us ID but it's not the right ID. 691 00:50:27,482 --> 00:50:29,025 Some of them are showing us ID that's right, 692 00:50:29,109 --> 00:50:30,736 and we help them, like, "Come on. 693 00:50:30,819 --> 00:50:32,237 Jump over." 694 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:34,906 But these other ones, who we have to make leave 695 00:50:34,990 --> 00:50:36,783 because, you know, they don't have that requirement, 696 00:50:36,867 --> 00:50:37,909 you know, what do we do? 697 00:50:37,993 --> 00:50:39,119 We got to force them over that wall. 698 00:50:39,202 --> 00:50:42,122 [people clamoring] 699 00:50:42,205 --> 00:50:45,125 - [shrieking] 700 00:50:45,208 --> 00:50:52,257 ♪ ♪ 701 00:50:53,049 --> 00:50:55,010 - We've got women, children 702 00:50:55,093 --> 00:50:56,970 pleading, crying, screaming, 703 00:50:57,053 --> 00:50:59,765 "Please mister, you know, the Taliban will kill me." 704 00:51:10,984 --> 00:51:11,902 - The stuff they went through, 705 00:51:11,985 --> 00:51:14,196 like trying to get through those gates, 706 00:51:14,279 --> 00:51:15,614 like, I can't imagine how they felt 707 00:51:15,697 --> 00:51:16,948 on the other side of the gate. 708 00:51:18,700 --> 00:51:20,243 You're dealing with people who, 709 00:51:20,327 --> 00:51:21,995 you know, blood all over them. 710 00:51:22,078 --> 00:51:25,332 They could have possibly, like, been shot or hurt, 711 00:51:25,415 --> 00:51:27,209 or they've been standing out there for days 712 00:51:27,292 --> 00:51:29,377 and they have no water, they have no food, 713 00:51:29,461 --> 00:51:31,630 and they're-- you know, they're-- 714 00:51:33,507 --> 00:51:34,841 They're going on themselves, 715 00:51:34,925 --> 00:51:36,551 like, there 'cause there's nowhere for them to go. 716 00:51:36,635 --> 00:51:39,513 ♪ ♪ 717 00:51:39,596 --> 00:51:42,557 - When you go to a gate, the heat and the smell 718 00:51:42,641 --> 00:51:44,476 would just hit you. 719 00:51:44,559 --> 00:51:46,353 - Every gate kind of smelled bad, but Abbey Gate, 720 00:51:46,436 --> 00:51:48,355 it was definitely the worst. 721 00:51:48,438 --> 00:51:50,565 And they're standing in-- 722 00:51:50,649 --> 00:51:52,400 I think it was a sewage canal, you know? 723 00:51:52,484 --> 00:51:56,154 They're standing in shit and piss, you know? 724 00:51:56,238 --> 00:51:58,323 And that's the stuff that if we did pull them in, 725 00:51:58,406 --> 00:51:59,866 you know, that's what we pulled them out of, you know? 726 00:51:59,950 --> 00:52:01,868 If we threw them out, that's what we threw them into. 727 00:52:01,952 --> 00:52:06,790 ♪ ♪ 728 00:52:14,089 --> 00:52:18,260 ♪ ♪ 729 00:52:29,187 --> 00:52:36,111 ♪ ♪ 730 00:52:42,951 --> 00:52:44,786 - It's every man for himself right now, 731 00:52:44,870 --> 00:52:46,413 just trying to save themselves. 732 00:52:46,496 --> 00:52:52,586 ♪ ♪ 733 00:52:52,669 --> 00:52:54,838 - Seeing people come in, like, just, you know, 734 00:52:54,921 --> 00:52:57,257 they didn't make it, they're dead, and, 735 00:52:57,340 --> 00:53:00,093 you know, we dealt with everything. 736 00:53:00,176 --> 00:53:07,142 ♪ ♪ 737 00:53:08,685 --> 00:53:11,146 You know, children being pushed around, mushed 738 00:53:11,229 --> 00:53:13,106 'cause they're just caught in the crowd. 739 00:53:13,189 --> 00:53:18,403 ♪ ♪ 740 00:53:18,486 --> 00:53:21,072 They come through us injured, hurt, dying, bleeding. 741 00:53:21,156 --> 00:53:28,121 ♪ ♪ 742 00:53:32,709 --> 00:53:34,669 - Some people had been there three, four, five days 743 00:53:34,753 --> 00:53:37,547 as the operation continued, and yet they stayed there. 744 00:53:37,631 --> 00:53:40,008 Women were having their babies right in front of us. 745 00:53:40,091 --> 00:53:41,760 Families just handing their babies over, 746 00:53:41,843 --> 00:53:43,470 you know, and giving up and walking-- 747 00:53:43,553 --> 00:53:45,805 you know, trying to walk away, trying to move back, 748 00:53:45,889 --> 00:53:47,349 you know, "Just save this." 749 00:53:47,432 --> 00:53:54,397 ♪ ♪ 750 00:53:55,732 --> 00:53:58,777 - That was one instance of a hundred 751 00:53:58,860 --> 00:54:01,571 of children getting passed over. 752 00:54:01,655 --> 00:54:06,785 - And it's sad seeing these newborns, these kids just-- 753 00:54:06,868 --> 00:54:08,995 some of these women carrying their dead babies 754 00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:12,374 because they died in their arms, you know, 755 00:54:12,457 --> 00:54:13,959 with them trying to come through the gate. 756 00:54:14,042 --> 00:54:16,378 And, you know, like, 757 00:54:16,461 --> 00:54:17,504 they kind of hand us their baby, 758 00:54:17,587 --> 00:54:19,673 and it's like, "What do you want me to do with this?" 759 00:54:19,756 --> 00:54:21,299 You know, it became normal for us, 760 00:54:21,383 --> 00:54:22,676 and that's kind of sad to say. 761 00:54:22,759 --> 00:54:24,719 You know, some of the girls on my team, you know, they-- 762 00:54:27,263 --> 00:54:30,809 Like, you know, I highly doubt they would ever forget that. 763 00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,646 - The orphans that would come through 764 00:54:34,729 --> 00:54:36,523 whose parents died out in the crowd-- 765 00:54:36,606 --> 00:54:38,817 we had numerous men and women behind the gates 766 00:54:38,900 --> 00:54:40,777 in the search tents just caring for infants, 767 00:54:40,860 --> 00:54:42,195 caring for toddlers 768 00:54:42,278 --> 00:54:44,614 that their parents would never make it through the gate. 769 00:54:44,698 --> 00:54:51,830 ♪ ♪ 770 00:54:52,122 --> 00:54:53,415 - Some of them had been dislocated 771 00:54:53,498 --> 00:54:54,833 from their families. 772 00:54:58,503 --> 00:54:59,713 They didn't know where their parents were 773 00:54:59,796 --> 00:55:01,506 'cause their parents didn't make it through, you know? 774 00:55:01,589 --> 00:55:08,555 ♪ ♪ 775 00:55:27,115 --> 00:55:30,076 - [speaking an Afghan language] 776 00:55:31,578 --> 00:55:33,872 - [speaking an Afghan language] 777 00:55:33,955 --> 00:55:40,962 ♪ ♪ 778 00:55:49,554 --> 00:55:52,932 - The next few days, we started to get 779 00:55:53,016 --> 00:55:55,393 the people through the gates. 780 00:55:55,477 --> 00:55:57,145 - Go this way, please. 781 00:55:57,228 --> 00:56:00,315 ♪ ♪ 782 00:56:00,398 --> 00:56:02,358 - Let's go. You're good. You're good. You got it. 783 00:56:02,442 --> 00:56:03,943 - Keep going this way, please. 784 00:56:04,027 --> 00:56:05,070 - Let's go, come on, this way. 785 00:56:05,153 --> 00:56:06,613 Let's go. You're good. 786 00:56:06,696 --> 00:56:09,115 You're good. You got it. Let's go. 787 00:56:10,325 --> 00:56:12,410 - So we had Department of State consulates 788 00:56:12,494 --> 00:56:14,120 that were verifying papers for everybody that was 789 00:56:14,204 --> 00:56:15,413 coming through at the start, 790 00:56:15,497 --> 00:56:17,248 where we would try to get people in, 791 00:56:17,332 --> 00:56:20,585 screen them, get them through, get them to the terminal 792 00:56:20,668 --> 00:56:22,420 so they could fly out. 793 00:56:22,504 --> 00:56:23,630 - Yo, ready? 794 00:56:25,882 --> 00:56:28,635 - The gate would open up only a few feet 795 00:56:28,718 --> 00:56:30,136 to allow people through. 796 00:56:30,220 --> 00:56:32,639 - This way, please. [baby cries] 797 00:56:32,722 --> 00:56:34,432 You're okay. 798 00:56:34,516 --> 00:56:36,059 Thank you. 799 00:56:37,894 --> 00:56:39,938 - Because I had the paper and the emails, 800 00:56:40,021 --> 00:56:41,106 a soldier called. 801 00:56:41,189 --> 00:56:43,608 He said, "Okay, you can come." 802 00:56:43,691 --> 00:56:46,152 He said, "You are in safe hands." 803 00:56:46,236 --> 00:56:49,155 ♪ ♪ 804 00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:50,990 We made it. 805 00:56:51,074 --> 00:56:58,081 ♪ ♪ 806 00:57:04,963 --> 00:57:09,968 ♪ ♪ 807 00:57:18,935 --> 00:57:22,147 [plane engine roaring] 808 00:57:22,230 --> 00:57:25,650 [indistinct chatter] 809 00:57:25,733 --> 00:57:32,198 ♪ ♪ 810 00:58:01,102 --> 00:58:05,565 ♪ ♪ 811 00:58:05,648 --> 00:58:08,026 - It was a very sad situation. 812 00:58:08,109 --> 00:58:12,155 They're leaving their country, you know, with nothing. 813 00:58:12,238 --> 00:58:13,865 I definitely empathized with them, 814 00:58:13,948 --> 00:58:16,868 'cause I could never imagine having to, you know, 815 00:58:16,951 --> 00:58:20,205 leave my entire life, everything that I've worked 816 00:58:20,288 --> 00:58:22,707 so hard for, leave it behind and... 817 00:58:22,790 --> 00:58:25,210 try to hope and freakin' pray that I get on a plane 818 00:58:25,293 --> 00:58:26,294 to get out of the country. 819 00:58:35,011 --> 00:58:41,976 ♪ ♪ 820 00:59:12,048 --> 00:59:15,593 - The circumstances that I left, 821 00:59:15,677 --> 00:59:18,346 it was a matter of life and death. 822 00:59:18,429 --> 00:59:22,767 You leave a place where you never think you'll leave. 823 00:59:24,477 --> 00:59:27,230 But you leave it because you can't live. 824 00:59:29,732 --> 00:59:32,527 ♪ ♪ 825 00:59:32,610 --> 00:59:33,444 - You've got the tracker. 826 00:59:33,528 --> 00:59:35,488 You're in the operations center. 827 00:59:35,571 --> 00:59:38,408 We're documenting how many citizens that we've helped. 828 00:59:38,491 --> 00:59:41,286 It's a hundred-something thousand. 829 00:59:41,369 --> 00:59:42,954 And threat reporting is starting 830 00:59:43,037 --> 00:59:44,622 to increase at this point too. 831 00:59:44,706 --> 00:59:48,960 We know that one of these gates is being targeted. 832 00:59:49,043 --> 00:59:51,671 Suicide bomber, something. 833 00:59:51,754 --> 00:59:52,964 Something's gonna happen. 834 01:00:10,398 --> 01:00:12,942 [people shouting] 835 01:00:13,026 --> 01:00:15,653 - ISIS threat reporting had become greater and greater 836 01:00:15,737 --> 01:00:20,158 in volume, and so everybody is really on a trigger edge. 837 01:00:21,367 --> 01:00:23,119 - Push down. - Fuck, man. 838 01:00:23,202 --> 01:00:25,246 - Holy shit. 839 01:00:25,330 --> 01:00:27,165 - North Gate and East Gate 840 01:00:27,248 --> 01:00:29,959 were along roads directly exposed 841 01:00:30,043 --> 01:00:31,294 to the worst thing that could have happened. 842 01:00:31,377 --> 01:00:32,587 That was a vehicle, 843 01:00:32,670 --> 01:00:34,422 improvised explosive device, you know, 844 01:00:34,505 --> 01:00:36,883 where you can just pack so much explosive 845 01:00:36,966 --> 01:00:38,009 into those things. 846 01:00:38,092 --> 01:00:39,260 [gunshots] 847 01:00:39,344 --> 01:00:40,845 - Get on line over here. 848 01:00:40,928 --> 01:00:43,181 [people shouting] 849 01:00:43,264 --> 01:00:45,058 - Come on, let's go. 850 01:00:45,141 --> 01:00:47,560 Over there, let's fucking go. 851 01:00:47,643 --> 01:00:49,228 - Which car is it? 852 01:00:54,275 --> 01:00:56,027 This is bad. This is very bad. 853 01:00:56,110 --> 01:00:57,820 This is very bad. - Get down. 854 01:00:57,904 --> 01:00:59,530 - Get down! Get down! 855 01:00:59,614 --> 01:01:02,700 - Get down! - You all get down! 856 01:01:02,784 --> 01:01:04,535 Get down! 857 01:01:06,496 --> 01:01:08,373 - I don't fucking like that truck. 858 01:01:08,456 --> 01:01:09,540 - Huh? - I don't like how these trucks 859 01:01:09,624 --> 01:01:10,750 are moving so slow. 860 01:01:10,833 --> 01:01:13,878 ♪ ♪ 861 01:01:24,555 --> 01:01:31,104 ♪ ♪ 862 01:01:31,896 --> 01:01:34,732 - We took stronger measures at North Gate and East Gate 863 01:01:34,816 --> 01:01:36,609 that day, on the 26th, 864 01:01:36,692 --> 01:01:39,195 because the reporting had started to increase. 865 01:01:39,278 --> 01:01:40,905 ♪ ♪ 866 01:01:40,988 --> 01:01:43,908 - I personally no longer felt comfortable, 867 01:01:43,991 --> 01:01:47,870 so we kind of made the decision to stop bringing people in 868 01:01:47,954 --> 01:01:50,415 through those gates. 869 01:01:50,498 --> 01:01:51,749 - The North and the East Gate 870 01:01:51,833 --> 01:01:54,502 stopped processing individuals. 871 01:01:54,585 --> 01:01:58,172 I think more people started to inadvertently flow 872 01:01:58,256 --> 01:02:00,091 to the Abbey Gate because they still realized 873 01:02:00,174 --> 01:02:01,175 that that was open. 874 01:02:01,259 --> 01:02:04,178 [people shouting] 875 01:02:04,262 --> 01:02:07,306 ♪ ♪ 876 01:02:08,516 --> 01:02:10,643 - Everybody had a backpack on them, 877 01:02:10,726 --> 01:02:14,105 so it's very difficult, given a threat like that, 878 01:02:14,188 --> 01:02:16,941 because everybody is a threat at that point. 879 01:02:17,024 --> 01:02:19,986 [indistinct chatter] 880 01:02:23,906 --> 01:02:26,909 - [speaking an Afghan language] 881 01:02:30,746 --> 01:02:33,708 [people clamoring] 882 01:02:35,918 --> 01:02:39,255 - They're saying there may be a potential IED. 883 01:02:39,338 --> 01:02:41,340 A little while goes on and they clear us. 884 01:02:41,424 --> 01:02:43,384 They're like, "Hey, we're gonna keep pushing people through." 885 01:02:43,468 --> 01:02:44,844 And we're like, "What the fuck?" 886 01:02:44,927 --> 01:02:46,679 We backed up a little bit, not much, you know, 887 01:02:46,762 --> 01:02:48,514 because, you know, they're still sending people through. 888 01:02:48,598 --> 01:02:50,224 I'm uncomfortable the whole time. 889 01:02:50,308 --> 01:02:57,190 ♪ ♪ 890 01:02:57,273 --> 01:03:00,193 [people clamoring] 891 01:03:00,276 --> 01:03:06,491 ♪ ♪ 892 01:03:06,574 --> 01:03:09,494 [explosion booms] 893 01:03:12,622 --> 01:03:19,212 ♪ ♪ 894 01:03:26,177 --> 01:03:33,184 ♪ ♪ 895 01:03:45,279 --> 01:03:47,073 - It was carnage, 896 01:03:47,156 --> 01:03:49,116 something like I had never seen before. 897 01:03:51,536 --> 01:03:53,287 - You see marines that are torn up. 898 01:03:53,371 --> 01:03:55,331 You know, you see multiple people doing this, 899 01:03:55,414 --> 01:03:56,499 and you know they're working on them. 900 01:03:56,582 --> 01:03:58,042 They're doing the gauze. 901 01:03:58,125 --> 01:04:01,254 ♪ ♪ 902 01:04:01,337 --> 01:04:05,466 - I was within the blast zone of the IED. 903 01:04:05,550 --> 01:04:10,346 I saw the flash and felt the heat. 904 01:04:10,429 --> 01:04:12,473 It knocked me down, 905 01:04:12,557 --> 01:04:16,477 and I received a piece of shrapnel in my right side. 906 01:04:16,561 --> 01:04:23,526 ♪ ♪ 907 01:04:24,652 --> 01:04:26,612 A lot of the marines and sailors 908 01:04:26,696 --> 01:04:28,656 that were directly in front of me 909 01:04:28,739 --> 01:04:32,076 were my marines and sailors that were killed. 910 01:04:32,159 --> 01:04:38,749 ♪ ♪ 911 01:04:38,833 --> 01:04:40,751 In the immediate aftermath, 912 01:04:40,835 --> 01:04:43,796 there was gunfire that erupted. 913 01:04:43,879 --> 01:04:45,464 - I heard rounds going off. 914 01:04:45,548 --> 01:04:49,385 That was some of the marines on the gate firing out, 915 01:04:49,468 --> 01:04:52,346 because an IED never comes alone. 916 01:04:52,430 --> 01:04:53,472 That comes with a ground attack. 917 01:04:53,556 --> 01:04:54,807 That comes with a sniper attack. 918 01:04:54,890 --> 01:04:58,060 There's always something coming with it. 919 01:04:58,144 --> 01:05:01,105 You harden your position. You make yourself hard to kill. 920 01:05:16,996 --> 01:05:19,957 [people speaking an Afghan language] 921 01:05:36,641 --> 01:05:43,606 ♪ ♪ 922 01:06:05,628 --> 01:06:12,593 ♪ ♪ 923 01:06:20,685 --> 01:06:27,650 ♪ ♪ 924 01:07:03,060 --> 01:07:07,022 ♪ ♪ 925 01:07:18,367 --> 01:07:21,120 ♪ ♪ 926 01:07:21,203 --> 01:07:22,580 - The gates are closed. 927 01:07:22,663 --> 01:07:24,665 We're no longer taking any more people in. 928 01:07:24,749 --> 01:07:28,127 So the people that are on the base that we've processed in, 929 01:07:28,210 --> 01:07:29,670 our job then becomes them, 930 01:07:29,754 --> 01:07:31,297 to get them on a plane to get them out. 931 01:07:31,380 --> 01:07:34,842 [indistinct chatter] 932 01:07:34,925 --> 01:07:36,886 - Hello, hello. 933 01:07:36,969 --> 01:07:38,012 - Thanks for your help, man. 934 01:07:38,095 --> 01:07:39,597 - Thank you for being cooperative. 935 01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:42,224 - Thank you. - Thank you. Thank you. 936 01:07:42,308 --> 01:07:45,227 That's it, finito. 937 01:07:45,311 --> 01:07:46,687 We did it. 938 01:07:49,356 --> 01:07:52,860 - We're rapidly approaching 31 August. 939 01:07:52,943 --> 01:07:55,446 The chaos was kind of really over. 940 01:07:55,529 --> 01:07:58,699 Certainly you got the feeling we weren't welcome anymore. 941 01:07:58,783 --> 01:07:59,825 It was time to get out, 942 01:07:59,909 --> 01:08:01,869 you know, as the Taliban were on the doorstep saying, 943 01:08:01,952 --> 01:08:03,662 "31st, you're out of here." 944 01:08:07,666 --> 01:08:09,543 The destruction plan went into full effect 945 01:08:09,627 --> 01:08:11,212 those last couple days. 946 01:08:13,589 --> 01:08:17,510 - We were destroying any sensitive equipment, 947 01:08:17,593 --> 01:08:19,178 trying to render all the military equipment 948 01:08:19,261 --> 01:08:21,180 unusable for the Taliban. 949 01:08:21,263 --> 01:08:24,725 ♪ ♪ 950 01:08:24,809 --> 01:08:26,852 - It kind of turned into a free-for-all a little bit, 951 01:08:26,936 --> 01:08:29,063 the smashing out windows, 952 01:08:29,146 --> 01:08:33,692 breaking vehicles, breaking furniture. 953 01:08:33,776 --> 01:08:36,862 ♪ ♪ 954 01:08:37,905 --> 01:08:39,323 - Hey! 955 01:08:44,453 --> 01:08:46,038 [glass shatters] 956 01:08:46,121 --> 01:08:52,878 ♪ ♪ 957 01:09:02,638 --> 01:09:04,306 - We're getting ready to get on the flight, 958 01:09:04,390 --> 01:09:05,808 and it's just so surreal. 959 01:09:05,891 --> 01:09:07,351 I don't know why I'm crying. 960 01:09:07,434 --> 01:09:10,604 ♪ ♪ 961 01:09:10,688 --> 01:09:11,689 And I'm just hoping, like, 962 01:09:11,772 --> 01:09:14,316 "Man, please let us, like, just get out of here." 963 01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:16,193 And, you know, we did, and once that plane took off, 964 01:09:16,277 --> 01:09:18,320 I'm just like, "Oh, my God, it's over." 965 01:09:20,447 --> 01:09:22,449 It was the best feeling. 966 01:09:24,285 --> 01:09:26,078 It was great. 967 01:09:26,161 --> 01:09:32,334 ♪ ♪ 968 01:09:37,214 --> 01:09:38,465 - It was the last day. 969 01:09:38,549 --> 01:09:40,426 You know, my unit was the last 970 01:09:40,509 --> 01:09:43,596 marine security unit in Afghanistan. 971 01:09:43,679 --> 01:09:46,098 This is an end of an era, and in my opinion, I think, 972 01:09:46,181 --> 01:09:48,100 you know, we did a lot of good for a lot of people 973 01:09:48,183 --> 01:09:50,978 and certainly brought a lot of things to that country. 974 01:09:52,646 --> 01:09:55,858 But to have the Taliban take it over again, that's-- 975 01:09:55,941 --> 01:09:58,694 that's always gonna be hard, always. 976 01:10:00,529 --> 01:10:02,072 We were packed in just like evacuees, 977 01:10:02,156 --> 01:10:04,366 so it wasn't very comfortable. 978 01:10:04,450 --> 01:10:08,996 But we just tried to not let your mind wander too much. 979 01:10:09,079 --> 01:10:11,332 So you clean your weapon. 980 01:10:11,999 --> 01:10:16,837 Get back and reflect on what we had just done. 981 01:10:16,921 --> 01:10:20,466 ♪ ♪ 982 01:10:20,549 --> 01:10:22,468 - My fellow Americans, 983 01:10:22,551 --> 01:10:25,554 the war in Afghanistan is now over. 984 01:10:25,638 --> 01:10:28,641 The extraordinary success of this mission 985 01:10:28,724 --> 01:10:32,144 was due to the incredible skill, bravery, 986 01:10:32,228 --> 01:10:34,480 and selfless courage of the United States military 987 01:10:34,563 --> 01:10:38,025 and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. 988 01:10:40,027 --> 01:10:41,779 - 20 years. 989 01:10:41,862 --> 01:10:44,114 It's obviously not a success. 990 01:10:44,198 --> 01:10:47,493 But we have to live with what we were not able to get done. 991 01:10:47,576 --> 01:10:53,207 ♪ ♪ 992 01:10:53,290 --> 01:10:56,335 The plan had been that I would be on the last flight out. 993 01:10:56,418 --> 01:10:59,672 We took off around midnight. 994 01:11:00,255 --> 01:11:04,176 I was pretty quiet and pretty somber. 995 01:11:04,259 --> 01:11:06,136 I was very sad. 996 01:11:08,138 --> 01:11:10,224 Big loss. 997 01:11:10,307 --> 01:11:14,144 ♪ ♪ 998 01:11:33,247 --> 01:11:36,208 [people shouting] 999 01:12:03,485 --> 01:12:10,409 ♪ ♪ 1000 01:12:10,492 --> 01:12:13,454 [gunfire] 1001 01:12:16,790 --> 01:12:18,709 [fireworks popping] 1002 01:12:21,503 --> 01:12:25,424 [people shouting] 1003 01:12:25,507 --> 01:12:28,177 [gunfire] 1004 01:12:29,344 --> 01:12:32,598 - I saw a very, very brutal war. 1005 01:12:32,681 --> 01:12:34,266 Thousands of people were killed. 1006 01:12:34,349 --> 01:12:38,020 As an Afghan, it was a very proud moment for me. 1007 01:12:38,103 --> 01:12:40,981 And I knew that my friends 1008 01:12:41,065 --> 01:12:44,526 will not need to conduct a suicide attack. 1009 01:12:44,610 --> 01:12:48,405 ♪ ♪ 1010 01:12:48,489 --> 01:12:51,450 [people speaking an Afghan language] 1011 01:12:55,120 --> 01:13:02,127 ♪ ♪ 1012 01:13:18,393 --> 01:13:22,606 ♪ ♪ 1013 01:13:22,689 --> 01:13:25,651 [indistinct PA announcements] 1014 01:13:58,642 --> 01:14:05,482 ♪ ♪ 1015 01:15:11,381 --> 01:15:15,969 ♪ ♪ 1016 01:15:16,053 --> 01:15:18,263 - There were many people who were at high risk. 1017 01:15:18,347 --> 01:15:20,766 They are still in Afghanistan. 1018 01:15:20,849 --> 01:15:23,977 I know many examples, and they are still stuck. 1019 01:15:24,061 --> 01:15:26,647 ♪ ♪ 1020 01:15:26,730 --> 01:15:30,359 So the situation is still disastrous. 1021 01:15:30,442 --> 01:15:35,197 ♪ ♪ 1022 01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:36,990 - Life in Afghanistan has changed 1023 01:15:37,074 --> 01:15:38,909 a lot of things for women. 1024 01:15:38,992 --> 01:15:40,327 It's a very terrible feeling 1025 01:15:40,410 --> 01:15:43,205 when you don't know about your future. 1026 01:15:43,288 --> 01:15:45,249 You don't have the slightest clue 1027 01:15:45,332 --> 01:15:47,501 what my next year 1028 01:15:47,584 --> 01:15:50,128 or what my next day in Afghanistan will be. 1029 01:15:50,212 --> 01:15:53,674 The only option that we have is to be strong 1030 01:15:53,757 --> 01:15:57,469 and to accept what will the future bring for us. 1031 01:15:57,552 --> 01:16:04,518 ♪ ♪ 1032 01:17:33,774 --> 01:17:35,692 [bright tone]