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He needed that attestation to his service so he could get credit both for his service with the marines but also for his time with the army, he needed credit for both to be able to qualify for the visa. the problem is, the contractor for who he worked for, that contracted as an existing. more like so many military contracting organizations that existed for a moment, provided the service and then proof. but because they are, gone they have left no trace zak has not been able to get a letter from them, they do not exist. and the fact that he wasn t able to get a letter from a defunct contractor that doesn t exist anymore, that was apparently justification enough for denying him a visa. which again, he applied for for the first time six years ago, and it means that he has been stuck in afghanistan ever since, which of course is a very difficult dangerous place to be if you are not against this and to help the united states, especially in so many different fights against the taliban s. ....
These individual stories, not just the individual afghans where people are trying to get out, but the individual americans, and small groups of americans who have some connection to the sacrifice of these folks, who are now trying to pull all of their american strengths, strings, use their american connections, use all of their american resources to try to pluck these people out of danger. and it s just, i mean, it is inspiring, but it s also obviously this deeply painful, deeply anchoring, frustrating thing for these veterans and these groups that are doing us right now. just desperately trying to get these people out who they know that they work with, in some cases save the lives in afghanistan of the american service members who are now trying to return the favor. right? leveraging any resources that they have before the taliban rounds them all up one by one. call your contacts, call you congressman, call your local tv stations, call your mom. anything, anything that might help. t ....
Now, please, president, it s your time to help us, and take us out of this crisis. zak, working as an afghan interpreter for u.s. forces in afghanistan, his friend major thomas schueman, both of them here on this show together two weeks ago today. now, what s happened in two weeks, beside afghanistan falling in its entirety to the taliban s. back home and rhode island, major thomas schueman has been in repeated contact with zak in afghanistan, trying to do for zak what zak was asking of president biden, take him out of this crisis, help him flee the country. major schueman had helped zak with his visa application, he made phone calls, send zak money so he can try to get his family from where they were living and where they were than in hiding to kabul, you have to bribe your way through checkpoints in afghanistan, sometimes with a ....
And his family did go into hiding, the province where they were living in was taken over by the taliban. their hope was to somehow, miraculously, almost impossibly try to get themselves from that outline province where they were living to kabul, and then once in kabul to get to the airport to try to iron out this long-standing, years long, snagging his visa and then, to see if he and his family could get on one of the last flight out. as the u.s. continues its chaotic exodus out of afghanistan. now if any of the sounds familiar to you, it may be because zak and major thomas schueman actually spoke to us here a few weeks ago with my colleague ali velshi and you may remember that interview. zak undoubtedly went above and beyond his duties as an ....
Their own. they had help. this guy right here, who were gonna show on the screen, there s a red arrow pointing to him, his arms are folded in front of him and he s focused intently on the local guy who is speaking to. the red arrow on that picture is pointing to a young afghan men who goes by the name zak, it s not his real name but that s with the marines called him. he was just 20 years old when he signed up to work within the rains it helmand province. he was an interpreter for the u.s. army, he would help them talk to other afghans like he is doing here. he would not only translate from whatever the local length which wasn t english, he would reverse those translations, he would also tell them in meetings, the meetings of the words that were being used. he was also helpful to the marines and translating radio communications among taliban fighters that the marines were able to intercept technically, but they weren t able to understand or interpret without help from zak. but there is ....