Operation North Star: The military veterans working to protect Afghan allies from the Taliban

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

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4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan last year. Now, U.S. vets are coming together to help the Afghans who did so much for them.

Hear about Operation North Star, and the story of the soldiers working to save their Afghan colleagues, and friends. David Young and Missy Ryan join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:51.8	Holam was just an 11-year-old boy when the United States invaded Afghanistan in late 2001.
0:59.2	With the Taliban out, for the first time in his life, Holam went to a school where he learned English.
1:06.5	A decade later, he put those language skills to use and became an interpreter for the United States Air Force.
1:13.2	The reason I went to work as an interpreter first, I needed to find money to feed my family.
1:20.8	The second was helping American because we had to work within to build our country, shoulder to shoulder.
1:29.6	He worked shoulder to shoulder with Americans like Michael Tritt.
1:33.8	Mike had served in the U.S. Air Force from 2002 to 2008 for deployments to Iraq.
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