we found out that we would have to go
to the Hamid Karzai International
Airport Hospital , which is a NATO run
hospital . And we were just gonna go
there for maybe a couple of weeks ,
help settle things down , potentially
take over if necessary until we
completely withdrew forces . Uh
instead of leaving in a couple of weeks ,
we stayed to the end . It was it was
much more difficult than we had
anticipated . The group that I left in
H Kaya when I left on the 20th , there
was a group of medics in H Kaya who had
to deal with a mass cal and
they are the true heroes and the fact
that we made every single one of them
made at home . But there are so many
parts about them that came home broken .
I think everyone's making some headway
and taking some small steps . But when
they get home at least one time , go
talk to somebody , even if you think
you don't need it at least once .
Because maybe that one time is the
time where you discover really if you
need to talk to someone . So that's
really , that's something that I walk
away with this deployment . Thinking
about