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Candidly, stronger than we usually hear in it these situations. the so what theyre looking for here, jeff, is the potential for another suicide attack. and that could be in the form of someone with a suicide vest, attempting to get access to one of the gates like we saw in the devastating attack yesterday. theyre also very worried about the potential for a vehicle born explosive device. someone packing a vehicle with some kind of explosive and then worst case scenario, actually being able to dri...

In a hospital, in saigon. president fords reaction to the rocket attack on the airport was to switch the from airplanes to helicopters, and speed it up and use those helicopters to pick up people on the tops of buildings in very dangerous maneuvers. one of those marine helicopters crash in the south china sea, killing the pilot, and his copilot. their bodies were never recovered, they were running low on fuel and repeatedly tried to land on an aircraft carrier that was already too crowded with o...

At the abbey gate. in this case it is someone who straps explosives to him or herself and is able to walk near or even on to karzai international airport and detonate. yesterday not only was the suicide attack the reason the military referred to it as a complex attack is because it involved more than one location or in this case more than one means of attack. after the suicide attack, there was also an ensuing gun fight. another concern though is the reality or the possibility of a vehicle-born ...

American experience. i ask all americans to look ahead to the many goals we share and to work together on the great tasks that remain to be accomplished. the president did not mention the marines who were killed in the rocket attack on the airport. the president might not have even known about that. the bodies of the two marines who were killed were left behind by mistake in a hospital in saigon. president fords reaction to the rocket attack on the airport was to switch the evacuation from airpl...

0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and ...

We heard the mission continues and that already they have brought more buses of afghan evacuees in to the airport. theyre still letting people through the gates. theyre still have several thousand people on the tarmac that they are evacuating. planes are taking off. if you listen to general mckenzie, the most significant thing he said is the threat streams, he described them as very real, tactical, imminent. he said the attackers would like to carry out a rocket attack on planes. in fact, he con...

Only once in our history before last week. 46 years ago in vietnam, we did it while the capital city of south vietnam was falling under the control of the north vietnamese army. and american soldiers were being shot at. i told you the story last week of the last two american combat casualties in vietnam. two marine buddies. charles mcmahon and darwin judge. they were killed the day before our last helicopter left vietnam. they were killed in a rocket attack at the airport in saigon. the reason w...

Vietnam, they were killed in a rocket attack, at the airport, in saigon. the reason we were using helicopters instead of military transport planes, is that the north vietnamese control the airport, after killing american soldiers to gain control of the airport. in so the american military, heroically did what was realistically possible, in what was realistically possible did not include bringing back the bodies, of the final two american casualties of that war, charles mcmahon in darwin judge. t...

Three rockets hit the Afghan city of Ghazni during a visit by President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday, in an apparent display of strength by militants as they ramp up attacks across the country.

Gorgeous, gorgeous blue eyes, long eyelashes, of which i was very envious. thats how darwin judges sister remembered him. darwin judge was a 19 year old, lance corporal in the marine corps from martial town iowa who spent less than two months in iowa in vietnam before he was killed, he did not die alone, his 21 year old buddy, from a suburb of boston was right beside him when they were both killed in a rocket attack. that was charlie mcmahons 11th day in vietnam. charles mcmahon and darwin judge...