Posted on 09/07/2021 1:35:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
While the tragic end to the War in Afghanistan is an insult to the ultimate sacrifice of American soldiers like Adam Brown, we cannot lose hope.
After 20 years, the War in Afghanistan has ended tragically. President Joe Biden’s incompetent exit strategy has left 13 service members dead and an unknowable number of American citizens and allies stranded in a country now under the rule of Islamic terrorists.
The unfolding disaster has left many Americans in despair, fearful that thousands of American soldiers, who made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan, died for nothing.
In spite of the self-interested and short-sighted politicians, our troops worked tirelessly to defend the United States and make a positive change in Afghanistan. The stories of these everyday Americans is what will bring us clarity and hope as we exit the post-9/11 era and move forward.
One of those people was Adam Brown, whose life and legacy is one of patriotism, redemption, family, selfless love, and faith in God. He was a member of Navy SEAL Team Six, but his path into the elite fighting force was anything but conventional. This is the story of how one man went from a drug-addicted felon to a devout Christian and American hero.
Adam Lee Brown was born on February 5, 1974, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to a working-class family. Growing up, he was well-mannered and hard-working — a classic all-American boy. He was the type of kid no one wanted to face on the football field but who also would climb up into his mother’s lap to cuddle well into elementary school.
Despite being described by his Pee Wee tackle football coach as “not much bigger than a number two pencil,” Adam was fearless. He even earned the nickname “Psycho” for taking on the biggest players on his fifth-and-sixth-grade football team.
Adam didn’t just use his uncommon courage on the football field. Below is an excerpt emblematic of his character from Eric Blehm’s biography of Adam, “Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown”:
Despite being described by his Pee Wee tackle football coach as “not much bigger than a number two pencil,” Adam was fearless. He even earned the nickname “Psycho” for taking on the biggest players on his fifth-and-sixth-grade football team.
Adam didn’t just use his uncommon courage on the football field. Below is an excerpt emblematic of his character from Eric Blehm’s biography of Adam, “Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown”:
Adam Lee Brown was born on February 5, 1974, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to a working-class family. Growing up, he was well-mannered and hard-working — a classic all-American boy. He was the type of kid no one wanted to face on the football field but who also would climb up into his mother’s lap to cuddle well into elementary school.
Despite being described by his Pee Wee tackle football coach as “not much bigger than a number two pencil,” Adam was fearless. He even earned the nickname “Psycho” for taking on the biggest players on his fifth-and-sixth-grade football team.
Adam didn’t just use his uncommon courage on the football field. Below is an excerpt emblematic of his character from Eric Blehm’s biography of Adam, “Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown”:
When my son was sent to West Point, I told him that the Army was training him to not get his men killed for no reason. That was the whole reason he was there.
It was okay to lose me to accomplish a mission. But, you must learn not to lose men for no reason at all.
It seems the US Senior Military Staff needs to be relieved and they need to bring in someone who understands this.
While Xiden owns the withdrawal debacle it must never be forgotten that both Bushes, Clinton and Obama are squarely responsible for this disaster as well. Trump at least tried to draw it down. But his mistake was in trusting these treasonous eternal-war REMF pukes in the Pentagon. They undermined him every step of the way.
Agree.
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