Hey everybody and welcome back to Cash's Corner.

Predictably, our topic for this week continues to be Afghanistan, where we started off last week.

Before we kind of dive in, one of the big topics on everybody's mind has been the service

members that were killed last week.

One of the, probably the worst thing about being in the theater of war is the possibility

of losing Americans and soldiers, and we lost 13 of them this past week in Kabul due to a vehicle-born, improvised explosive device

that was executed by a terrorist group.

And, you know, in my service in DOD and in other departments,

that is the single most hard, difficult thing to endure when you have to go home and inform their families that their loved ones aren't coming home.

And I just wanted to acknowledge the families before we started the show of those that had fallen in the last week. You know, their loss is not in vain as far as I'm concerned.

They were serving a mission to help others who could not endure that mission themselves.

And so it's a very real way that impacts you when you're serving alongside them

or in the DoD community that makes the decisions you make real because you know like when I was

running the Department of Defense there's always a lot potential for loss of life in any of these

conflicts.

And we had the biggest fatality, unfortunately, since extortion 17 and 2011.

So it's quite a significant date and we just wanted to acknowledge it and let the families

know that we're with them.

I understand that they're now, they've now been airlifted to the U.S.

Yeah, so what happens when service members are killed in combat or in a theater of war

is there's a process called a dignified transfer and they are airlifted on military transport planes with their coffins and the flags draped over them and there's a formal

transfer of their remains to the family members who are also at Dover usually with high-level government officials and I had to do one when I was Chief of Staff at Dover just last year.

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