Gold Star mother Karen Vaughn and retired Air Force Lt. Col. Alex Pelbath told Newsmax the Biden administration failed the 13 service members killed in the suicide bombing at Abbey Gate during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan four years ago.
“I lost my son in 2011 to the same reasons that the young men and women died at Abbey Gate, and that was just a completely reckless withdrawal strategy, but also, going back, it was just failed and feckless leadership,” Vaughn said Tuesday on “The Chris Salcedo Show.”
“Now, we have people in place, [Secretary of Defense] Pete, Sec. Hegseth I should call him, who’s a very good friend of mine, and I can’t tell you how excited I am to see him or how supportive I was when I saw him stepping into this role, because we finally have somebody that’s not a politician, that actually has had boots on the ground, working alongside the president, and will actually care for the warfighters, the people he fought beside, and understands the territory much better than somebody sitting around a linen-draped table, drinking wine and talking about what we’re going to do with the boys,” she added.
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