0:00 – 15:00:   Walker discusses his article from the weekend edition of The Daily Journal discussing vaccine options without being denigrated/ostracized for one’s choice. 18:00 – 35:00:  LTC (Ret) Perry Blackburn, USA Spec Ops, talks about ongoing operations in Afghanistan outside of normal channels. 38:00 – 54:30:  Momo joins us as well.  Momo is […]

(This article by freelance writer Pam Windsor originally appeared in the September 2021 issue of Military Officer, a magazine available to all MOAA Premium and Life members. Learn more about the magazine here; learn more about joining MOAA here.) When planes struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, then-Maj. Perry Blackburn, USA, was training with […]

The Red Umbrella pax was formed at the Abbey gate during the fall of HKIA. It started with the wife and child of an American citizen who were in contact with us for evacuation assistance. There was another family of three related to a different American citizen. That umbrella was how the two families met […]

Humanitarian situation and the implementation of the 2020 US-Taliban agreement on agenda in talks held in Doha. Senior Taliban officials and United States representatives have discussed “opening a new page” in their countries’ relationship as they kicked off talks in Qatar, according to Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister. The in-person meetings that began in Doha on […]