Few had more repeated deployments than the Special Operations community after 9/11, another part of the U.S. military transformed by a global war against suicide bombers and a brutal ideology.
"We became the go-to for everything. And what ended up happening is just it was deployment after deployment, after deployment," Redman recalled."I know guys in the SEAL teams. I mean, I think the record that I'm aware of as a guy that did 16 combat deployments and the toll on that is tough."
"My friends would be over at the house and my kids would be around individuals missing limbs or recovering from war wounds, just like I did. And this is what my kids grew up with. So this was the post 9/11 Special Operations world that we lived in and that my kids grew up in," Redman said. "I would tell you this, America is at its very best when things are at its very worst," Gersten said emphatically. "There are so many Afghans who got to achieve freedom.
"We have to remember that the violent extremists that attacked us on 9/11 are still out there and that ideology is still out there. And I have no doubt in my mind that what's happened recently in Afghanistan will serve as an accelerant for extremism around the world." "We prevented the United States of America from ever being attacked again. There's a lot of conflicted feelings out there, and I'm included in that. A lot of conflicted feelings with pain and anger, we all have it, every one of us that served there has that," Milley said.
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