Retired US Navy Commander helping refugees flight from the TalibanRetired US Navy Commander helping refugees flight from the Taliban

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Retired U.S. Navy Commander Jon Singleton is trying to assistance his friends flight Kabul. Singleton is moving with a web of veterans to rise wealth and link Afghan allies to resettlement programs crossed the satellite consenting to help.

Singleton served successful Kabul, Afghanistan 15 years ago. As a commander, helium worked broadside by broadside with Afghans connected assorted missions, who aboriginal became friends.

“It’s perfectly heartbreaking…just perfectly heartbreaking. We are trying to get our friends to safety. “What we truly privation to bash is to effort to person those routes for flight inactive unfastened and get them to safety. The Taliban close present is hunting down these precise radical we’re trying to rescue,” said Jon Singleton.

The Taliban had publically promised to fto anyone with a peculiar migrant visa permission Afghanistan present that US troops are retired of the country. It’s excessively aboriginal to cognize if the radical volition support that promise.

About 1,200 radical were evacuated successful the last hours of the United States withdraw. The White House said it inactive has “substantial leverage” implicit the Taliban to let Americans and US allies to permission the state safely adjacent aft the deadline.

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