In this episode, we discuss:

*Bravo Company’s deployment with the 24th MEU prior to heading to HKIA

*Its training and preparation for the HKIA NEO

*The company’s reaction to hearing it would go to HKIA

*Nick’s understanding of the situation on the ground before arriving at HKIA

*Bravo Company’s first day at HKIA

*Its role in clearing the airfield of civilians

*The enemy fire 1/8 received

*Nick’s reaction to learning that the Taliban would assist in the evacuation

*Bravo Company’s experience manning the North Gate

*The role of trust and intent in Bravo’s efforts at HKIA

*What the company was doing on 20-22 August

*The enemy threat at HKIA

*Bravo’s operations on 26 August, the day of the Abbey Gate bombing

*Bravo’s operations between 26 August and its departure from HKIA

*What Nick observed in himself and his Marines in the aftermath of the mission

*His advice to future leaders whose unit members have gone through something as horrific as the HKIA mission

*Nick’s homecoming to Camp Lejeune

*The friendly nation forces Bravo served alongside at HKIA

*The US Army elements Bravo worked with

*Bravo’s interactions with the State Department at HKIA

*The role of outside entities requesting special evacuations of personnel at HKIA

*Bravo’s interactions with the MEU’s Female Search Team

*The roles of discipline and exhaustion during the evacuation

*Those actions of Bravo Company that make Nick proudest

*The one thing Nick would like Marines and other service members to know about what Bravo Company did at HKIA

Links

Jennifer Garner with Sara Gretzky & Natalie Buck