#12--Tanner Champlin (Voices of HKIA Series)

In this episode, we discuss:

-Tanner getting assigned his squad before deploying with the 24th MEU

 

-What the deployment looked like before heading to HKIA

 

-His reaction to the news that the MEU would deploy to Kabul  

 

-His understanding of the situation in Kabul before touching ground in HKIA

 

-Tanner’s first days at HKIA

 

-Clearing the airport of civilians 

 

-Working with the Taliban

 

-Gate operations and the challenges they presented

 

-The role of exhaustion in operations

 

-Using maneuver warfare concepts and tools 

 

-The Abbey Gate Bombing

 

-Tanner’s experiences between the bombing and before his unit departed HKIA

 

-What he observed in his fellow Marines and himself in Kuwait following the NEO

 

-His experience of returning to Camp Lejeune

 

-The most frustrating and rewarding aspects of the HKIA mission

 

-The presence of personal cell phones and computers at HKIA

 

-Tanner’s appraisal of his performance at HKIA

 

-The supposed animosity between 1/8 and 2/1

 

-Tanner’s advice for Marines transitioning into civilian life