meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Can You Survive This Podcast?

When The War At Home Is Harder Than The War Abroad | Veteran and Tillman Scholar Kate Hoit

Can You Survive This Podcast?

Jeff Apple

Education, Leisure, Health & Fitness

4.8599 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Show sponsors: Manscaped use code CYSTP, ZBiotics use code SURVIVE Kate Hoit is an Iraq War Veteran and Tillman Scholar who helped in the rescue of allies during the Withdrawal from Afghanistan... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Is it true that you worked on a project recently that assisted in getting some of our allies out of the withdrawal?

0:13.6

Yes. So when we pulled out of Afghanistan, as you know, there was a lot happening and not really a secure plan in place,

0:22.1

essentially for the folks trying to get over here and for folks resettling.

0:26.5

So I was part of a community of veterans, Intel folks, like DOD, DOS, who kind of rallied together

0:33.1

and joined this Underground Railroad to help these folks.

0:36.8

So there was a bunch of us operating stateside.

0:39.3

We had contacts on the ground in Afghanistan.

0:41.6

So we were working on Slack.

0:44.6

Folks were reaching out to us left and right.

0:47.3

I had a family that reached out to me on Twitter

0:49.6

and literally just essentially begging for their lives, right?

0:52.4

So they were like, can you help us get out of here?

0:53.8

We're like, what can we do?

0:55.3

So I personally, for example, for that family, they sent me all their documentation.

1:02.6

We verified it as best we could on the back end here.

1:05.5

We had our points on the ground in Afghanistan and we would get they would exchange locations right so for example

1:13.5

this family was like hey I'm at this gate I have a pink towel you know is there anyone on the

1:18.3

inside that can get me out randomly we get a ping at like 430 in the morning hey do you guys

1:22.9

have any folks on the on the outside they need to get in to get on this flight out. Yes, somehow worked out

1:28.7

and we would have the folks grab those folks and bring them inside. So we did this for a few days

1:32.7

until it was not possible anymore. So that was one way we helped. And then stateside,

1:39.3

we started realizing that a lot of these, a lot of these refugees were coming here without anything, right?

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jeff Apple, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jeff Apple and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.