When Ops Go Bad

Nobody is Left to Pick Up the Pieces

Evacuees load onto buses to be processed during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 22. U.S. service members are assisting the Department of State with a Non-combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) in Afghanistan. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Isaiah Campbell)

Last year, around October, I made one of the worst de…