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23/ Doc Cordova and the other medics and PAs did everything they could, but ultimately Mace had lost too much blood.

thefallen.militarytimes.com/army-spc-steph…
24/ Hours later, the COP had been retaken.

Days later the COP was abandoned and bombed by the U.S.
25/ Unbelievable heroism was demonstrated that day.

Here is General Stanley McChrystal awarding Silver Stars to SGT Thomas Rasmussen and SFC @19JonHill19, as well as - not pictured - Doc Cordova and Bundermann.

militarytimes.com/2013/03/27/sil…
@19JonHill19 26/ But to many, October 3 will always be about the deadliest day for the US in Afghanistan in 2009.

RIP Thomson, Kirk, Hill, Griffin, Hardt, Martin, Gallegos, Mace

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Knowledgeable source tells me that White House forced out Pentagon Chief of Staff Rear Admiral Kevin Sweeney (ret.)
Official title was “Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense.”
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Retired four-star Admiral William McRaven, the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014 (which included the OBL mission), just issued the following statement to CNN in response to POTUS attacking GEN McChrystal on twitter:

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“Stan McChrystal is one of the great generals of this generation and the finest officer I ever served with. He is a deep strategic thinker, tactically brilliant, with unparalleled personal courage. His leadership of special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan...
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