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Men but women and children, including some very young children. today, the commanding general for all u.s. forces in central command, the cent-com commander, general frank mackenzie, confirmed the toll among u.s. service members. and in so doing, he is a reserved commanding officer and speaks in reserved, but in confirming the toll today and briefing the pentagon press corps about what happened. he spoke at one point quietly and in sort of unexpectedly human terms. about the actual work that the corpsmen and marines were doing today when they were killed in the line of duty. he talked about the inherently dangerous nature of the actual person-by-person, hour-by-hour work of what it really means on the ground to run this evacuation airlift. the closeness. the hands-on proximity of what they have been doing. ....
Corps about what happened. he spoke at one point quietly and in sort of unexpectedly human terms. about the actual work that the . corpsmen and marines were doingd today when they were killed in the line of duty. he talked about the inherently dangerous nature of the actual t person-by-person, hour-by-hour work of what it really means on the ground to run this evacuation airlift. the closeness. the hands-on proximity of what they have been doing. p taking a moment to describe the heroism that our marines, soldiers, and sailors are , exhibiting as they screen the people who are coming onto the airfield.he this is close-up war. the breath of the person you aru searching is upon you. while we have over-watch in place, we still have to touch the clothes of the person that s coming in. i think you all can appreciate the courage and the dedication that is necessary to do this job. and to do it time after time. please remember that we have ....
The more than 60 afghan innocents who were killed. yeah. hi, jake, i m grieving and mourning along with all of america for the loss of these marines, the corpsmen and obviously those injured. we will be there for their families as we must for all of our service men and women that we lose, and we have to focus on getting the mission done is the bottom line. during my time in afghanistan we lost soldiers. we have lost over 2,400 men and women over the last 20 years and every time we ve lost one of those men and women they were on a mission, and we didn t stop the mission. we got it done because we re the united states of america. we don t allow terrorists and others to stop us from performing our duty and our mission. we keep going, and that s what we re going to do and we re going to get the job done. these explosions and terrorist attacks come at the tail end of a war that s gone on now for 20 years. what do you think is the ....
Looking into this and joins me now. we are talking about veterans that served as medics and come into civilian life and not getting hired? it s all about paperwork. the civilian health care world needs to see the paper, the licenses, the certifications and rightly so to show the folks have experience but you have army medics and navy corpsmen who developed all this great experience in the field and they just don t want all that experience to be ignored. as an enlisted sailor, eric dodson spent 11 years in the u.s. navy working on the front lines assisting with surgeries and mass casualty incidents. hey, we have 20 people coming in, take care. find someone to take care of them. reporter: after his military service, dodson volunteered as a registered nurse at a covid field hospital in new york. once that was over because the mission had finished i was applying for jobs as an er tech and told i wasn t qualified. ....
Realize hey, all these other marines and corpsmen are going to the same thing and it helps just coming back together and talking about it. they visited the johnny cash museum where kash s nephew played guitar and a bugler played the national anthem along with taps for those who did not come home. and for those who did, like army sergeant brent hendricks, an amputee veteran who took his life on the second attempt last april, one month into the pandemic lockdown. while recovering at walter reed while returning from iraq, his mother also died by suicide. he is seen here at the white house with president bush and lima companies michael logue who tried to save him. ....