by Natalia Mittelstadt at Just the News
“President Trump and I have formally pledged full transparency for what transpired during our military withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday ordered a review to be conducted of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which occurred under the Biden administration.
The final troop withdrawal in 2021 led to the death of 13 U.S. soldiers.
“On August 26, 2021, President Biden’s administration led a chaotic withdrawal of U.S. military and embassy officials from Afghanistan that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. Service members and 170 civilians in a suicide bombing at the Kabul International Airport’s Abbey Gate,” according to Hegseth’s memo.
“President Trump and I have formally pledged full transparency for what transpired during our military withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Department of Defense has an obligation, both to the American people and to the warfighters who sacrificed their youth in Afghanistan, to get to the facts.”
While the DOD has been conducting a review of the withdrawal for the last three months,…
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