‘Gross Abandonment’: Former Green Beret Tells Congress A High Price Was Paid For Chaotic Afghan Withdrawal

The following remarks were delivered by Lt. Col. (ret) Scott Mann at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Afghanistan Withdrawal on March 8, 2023.

As a Green Beret and retired Lt. Col. with nearly 23 years in service and three combat tours in Afghanistan, I am here to relive August 2021 with all of you. Not as a Democrat or a Republican, but as an American veteran, representing 800,000 Afghan combat veterans, and their families, but with my own point of view.