When my legs were blown off on Sept. 19, 2010, I was moving across the battlefield in Kandahar, Afghanistan narrowing in on a high-value target. As a bomb tech, it was my job to clear the way for the rest of our team, finding & disposing of any improvised explosive devices. 1/4 One member of our team was an Afghan interpreter who I’ll call Tom. Tom always had a helmet that was too big and the weight of his night vision goggles would make it wobble like a bobblehead on a dashboard. 2/4

What is happening in Afghanistan right now that the news cameras aren't capturing. A thread: 1/5 For our allies who were stuck in the bureaucratic process to obtain a visa, they are now sleeping in pomegranate orchards with their family or pot fields out in the tribal areas, moving from safe house to house to not be found as they are hunted by the Taliban. 2/5

The night I was blown up and lost my legs there was an Afghan interpreter with us. Thanks to Joe Biden's incompetence, he and his family (& countless others) have an impossible choice to make… 1/4 The first item needed for our Afghan allies to get a special immigrant visa is a letter from a US military commander outlining their work with us. Anyone who keeps this and gets captured will be killed by the Taliban on the spot… 2/4