Green Berets rush to defend their Afghan counterparts after D.C. shooting

After the shooting of two National Guard members last week, U.S. Green Berets find themselves having to come to the defense of their former Afghan war partners.

In the days and months after the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Thomas Kasza and some of his fellow U.S. Army Special Forces members focused their attention on the Afghans who had fought alongside them.

These Afghans who risked their lives for the U.S. were prime targets of the Taliban. Remaining in their homeland was akin to a death sentence.

“Given how they served exclusively alongside U.S. Green Berets, they were by default among those highest on Taliban target lists,” said Kasza, who was one of many military veterans who assisted their former Afghan counterparts in leaving the country and resettling in the U.S.

After the shooting of two National Guard members near the White House last week, Kasza and other U.S. war veterans find themselves having to come to the defense of their former Afghan partners yet again.

An Afghan who worked with a CIA-trained military unit has been charged in the attack, which killed Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and critically wounded Andrew Wolfe, 24.