A Marine assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response- Central Command carries a child to be processed during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 25. U.S. MARINE CORPS / SGT. ISAIAH CAMPBELL
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger wants his staff to examine the recent evacuation mission in Afghanistan to learn what went wrong, what went right, and what the service can learn for the future.
“While it’s relatively fresh in our minds, we need the honest, open critique, or a commission or whatever it is, that cracks open what were the options that were available. Who made what decisions at what time. Not so that we can penalize or hang somebody by a yardarm, but actually so that we can learn,” Berger said Wednesday during an event with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
Marine Corps Commandant Wants Review of Afghanistan Evacuation – Defense One