This episode contains strong language and scenes of war that some may find distressing.
In 2010, James Dao, then a military affairs reporter for The New York Times, began following a battalion of U.S. soldiers headed for Afghanistan.
Two soldiers caught his attention: Adrian Bonenberger, a single, 32-year-old captain, and Tamara Sullivan, a 30-year-old sergeant and mother of two.
As President Biden prepares to withdraw troops from Afghanistan this fall, we revisit those interviews and follow up with the two soldiers.
Guest: James Dao, the Metro editor for The New York Times.
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From your times, I'm likeable borrow this is a daily I'm leaving
understand some time this morning there
nothing in the world, I'd rather be down. I'm excited yet nervous. At the same time,
ten years ago, the times be
in following a battalion of U S. Soldiers, as these
set off for deployment to Afghanistan,
my main concern is whether or not our still be me when I get back
promised everybody. The outlook come back and that's kind of a promise that I can't really keep now
as President Biden prepares for a complete withdrawal of. U S, forces from
Afghanistan, this form my colleague Jim down.
Tells the story of two soldiers. He met back in twenty ten
and how America's longest war shaped their lives, then, and now
it's Friday,
twenty first. So in twenty ten I was a military affairs
Rapporteur, for the times, I've been covering the war in Afghanistan, which their point had been
going out for nine years already and I'd seen how the U S, mission had spoiled
well out beyond its original goal.
the feeding, Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban. After the nine eleven attacks to building a damn
credit government in Afghanistan and then,
Twenty ten in other
he's trying to stabilize the place com,
arms and attacks by Taliban. Another insurgents happened every day
Feeling among many a talk to that, the EU is needed to find a way to end its mission as quickly as possible, and to do that,
in an Obama made a controversial decision. He doubled down and sent more troops. Some thirty thousand more in Afghanistan has report
her I saw this could be a maker brig moment in the war, and I wanted to follow a battalion of soldier.
They put their lives on the line to try to end it
you're was target levels and stuff
levels in love
these have. You were rolling. There were the first battalion. Eighty seven infantry, the tenth mark,
vision: twenty seven years old, I'm twenty
there's on twenty three and twenty four years old twenty years. Twenty three. This is the
before there are going to board these giant transport plans and fly off tonight
in Afghanistan, where there
to spend the next twelve months of their lives, with their doing
It's gonna, be something that people back I'm going to be talking about and can be written in the history books.
Among the many troops we met at the time to reach,
Stood out to me: well, I just you know this is a prerequisite to
some personal goals for your time in Afghanistan.
What I want to get out of it this way, I would love to be at the end of this year,
older or as a person having
and a great deal from the last deployment. My goals are to protect the lives of whatever soldiers are assigned to me.
Adrian bottom barber was a thirty two year old captain from Connecticut and were to finish Moby Dick nobody. Now nobody, nobody should even try
and then there were sergeant Timorous Sullivan.
your name. Your rank, your age
where you're from that's what I ask of AIDS, talking sergeant timorous
Oliver, I'm thirty, is all enough from Tracy Software to swim
Adrian cameras. Second deployment to Afghanistan and even
They were in the same battalion, didn't know each other. They came from very different places with
very different paths to the military
I grew up in South Carolina.
and when she was a year old, her parents,
and a shooting Sheila too
Tears were raised by the grandmother model.
But still living. She still in the same house with the type of family
for whatever holiday will always get together. The one must sit around
a ball and tall. Given
In the meantime, the backyard stand one car grail, toppling drinking Adrian, told us,
his family can be traced back to the Mayflower and that his ancestors had fought
nearly every: U S, war, since the amount
revolution. My background is probably pretty generic for an American I've got my dad and my mom
still married and my dad's was a classical guitarist for a while. Then he right now he's
a corporate lawyer, my mom wrote poetry for a while now she's a librarian. I was an English, let major. I went to Yale
but after I graduated from Yale, I was looking at loss will, and I wasn't passionate about at all. Well Adrian is figuring out what to do with his life. News broke out about the Abu Ghraib.
an abuse scandal where you are soldiers in Iraq had tortured Iraqis, they had captured, and it made me think in a how. How is it possible
that we could, as Americans, as representatives of this idea, that a person can
make a better life for themselves, go in and be torturers and in a do horrible things to people, and I thought about it of sinking, and this is clearly. This is a failure of leadership, and I thought to myself. If this is the way things are, I have an obligation to to be a leader and to make sure that this doesn't happen and so marched, who felt
five. I join the army like Adrian Termer. Also it
Am I that served in the military
her motivation to enlist was much more practical after college she said she was facing thousands of dollars of dead. Instead,
going to find a steady job. Well,
join the army, because I had took us go round to pay for college.
I didn't want to be one of those people to outside working
Mom predetermine gonna be tinges, dynamo myself here for college, so I decided to join the army, so they will pay off my school loans,
She went through basic training in New York. Tamar was trying to state
acted your guy back home in South Carolina. She had just started dating. His name was himself him and she like that, he looked just like warrants. Fish burn in our relationship up internet point had been lonely.
This is because we met right before I went to basic training so long distance, a few months after basic training choose called up to deploy for Afghanistan. So it was there's gonna be the same thing.
Except that you know when I called him I'll, be wake him up in a mental night
camera was on her first deployment. Chin too
found a way to talk regularly
and when she came home she moved in with them. When does she walked?
in front of ring under her pillow. She said
Tim was like marrying her best friend during Adrian's. First deployment to Afghanistan.
he kept saying what he thought were these failures of leadership
One of the things I noticed last time was in any infantry, especially there's this. This natural
any for leadership to acquaint themselves,
sort of, like you know, knuckle draggers, mediators, going out to fight the enemy and kill the enemy, and that's real
like not at all what this is about. You know he felt more often than not
you're being set ambitions that only worse intentions with the local population and he
to do things differently, and I am
proud to say that I have been in situations where things could have gone one way or another and they went the right way because I was there now in twenty ten Adrian was eager to get back to the war. He was
go and focused on his career and moving up the ranks and during this tour
it actually be able to realise those ambitions, he would come,
and a combat unit which
terrifying, but also thrilling for tat,
on the eve of a second deployment she paid offers. Student loans moved up, their ranks to become a sergeant,
it has? Also now a married mother of two five got married
Like you know, ok, I have sought to do it myself,
there's a have there, but what I have my first child, I had a purpose in those I okay, this this is what ups pursue I'm supposed to be a mother, because everything was a soul,
actual her son astern was a year and a half old,
I gotta we're- was just six months old higher spent. If your final hours in the states today,
spend my last couple hours on the phone tonight, probable understand
my husband manner that my charge already just take something called and probably take a nap, maybe
like ten o clock tonight and then after that, just be on the phone all night, her husband term change jobs, a future
I too support cameras, career and issue prepared to deploy from four drum
He was in South Carolina what the kids and now that he knows that if some
and then I have to do in this part of the job and that's pretty much how we look at it by
Personally, I know he wish I didn't have to go back. He has to be strong,
so he's been mommy he's been daddy aim he's been done, a wonderful job. How are you
Try to remember that time. Are you bringing anything special to remember them by? Yes, I'm taking pictures of my family with me to Afghanistan, so I can remember them. I ask for
has been like when they make stuff in day care. I asked for
Two like mail me, those pictures of the little sloppy what people really met. Don't know what is supposed to be about
of a cell, was elephant, looks like adjusts big box.
a plan. I haven't those mail to me ass. I can see what their has actually touched. I want to see what my judges has touched, because I won't be able to touch them.
Firstly, you need to do a. U turn obvious, to learn how to be better. A metal block. Four questions like these ok they're worth.
I know what I'm doing is important, but it must show that our priority to me- and is it worth that big
Let them know it's not worth it everything that comes as a result. Is that worth it? Yes, he is
deploying brings up a lot of
weird and often conflicting, emotions
On the one hand, you have the knowledge that everything that you're familiar with, as
a million and a citizen are going away. You know the streets, the houses secured,
the tv I Fridays, the television, everything that
recognize as integral to life is about to be replaced by a persistent sense of danger. So you don't look forward to deployment from that perspective. From another perspective, though it
Mary enlivening and you live every day in the moment,
really excited about the possibility of commanding accompany, and
You know if I can keep my guy safe and I can partner with the Afghans and have a good deployment. Then yeah. I can see myself
in dealing with this? What do you think other soldiers? We
worried about you, think about being over there. One concern- and I think, some consciously or conscious.
The number one concern is: moral ambiguity is
responsible for sea
in one of your soldiers die if you're a leader dire, get hurt, really bad or, if you're, anyone
taking another human life which you dont fully understand. Until you been that situation, and then you have to do
with it and if you ve done it, then there's there's nothing. That's worse than that, and
people have different ways of dealing with that. Most people probably deals with alcohol.
The next day, hundreds of soldiers, loaded onto a sea, seventeen transport, plain destined for northern Afghanistan and TAT for
redeem in winter, and I joined them on board. We learned
conduce, a flat part of a country marked by rice fields
the rising as far as you can see a future oriented to this place, we'll get you settled in
and they will get all with what we're gonna do I
as we saw walking around our current, you be the walking Torres we go.
The soldiers new base, their new home, was built out of an old soviet airfield.
From the USSR invasion. Thirty years before it was noticed,
we're memorial right where we walk in right now. You'll see a russian equipment tag rocket launchers, howitzers
all those good thing: the reminders that invasion everywhere
over here is not bad at all about
but I do not want my son come over here right here. At this time I hear he's gonna make that thus far building. That is how we parted
the soldiers settled, then they hung a picture.
the families around their banks and they set up there.
axis the created
anxious, chapel religious services, and they found a good field,
football around it.
Infantry soldiers began, target practice and running through drills.
younger? Don't for making internal young officers met up with their afghan counterparts, so they could begin to plant missions together is fraught with Taliban love fighting and have been, or will we kill the oval had two main
directives for the year,
the Taliban and the region in train Afghans,
surely forces to take over said the. U S could leave,
after a month on the base and went back to the. U S to actually write the stories. I've been reporting on, and I returned
months later, to find so
There is now regularly out emissions.
One of the reasons why becomes so drawn out and difficult for me,
to win.
At their enemy, will guerrilla insurgents and often impossible to identify
the Taliban didn't wear uniforms, figures,
we with in with the local population, sometimes by forcing people to hide them.
This put your soldiers and a challenging position. They go
situations, not knowing who was their enemy and who are the people there are supposed to protect.
one day in the fall
Soldiers were out on patrol got into the Taliban fighters, had raided some nearby farms and were still in the area. We can't jellies does fires various lizard
You say the word: I followed a small team
drugs to rise, paddies towards the farming community
I can't remember about their work
handful of homes that the Taliban could have been hiding in the sun.
You're fired I'm goin out of a job
Let's talk about and then charged into it guns drawn. We got you cover
What
found only a family.
I've been going. Any further
a man. There began crying we're here to help you
my own account, I mean if we don't bring, didn't you told us
later that the Taliban had been in his home and how they had beaten him and taken.
food and supplies. I apologize
Come on. Your heart is one of the guys, as he taught a young boy began, singing to common himself. Young one thing for you guys.
Nobody is halted anyway, if they are with mafia,
ass. He went up his request cast aside for you to help me out here too.
I witnessed things like this before civilians copy
when the Taliban and yours troops trying to support a fragile government that frankly, hadn T trust
population, and at times it made you as soldiers,
what they were doing there in the first place, a rolling back at the base. I met a potential
just tell us in one sentence with your efficient job is more efficient Afghanistan
Mr Service, my vision, goggles and Emma
Amazon charges, soldiers, effaced radios and weapons- has a surgeon
she was leading a maintenance crew. She like the work but a tree.
there wasn't a lot of demand for goggle, repair, shoes,
bored and try to fill our time.
many books. You did you got a lot of these ten too fast.
The Austrians, I'm always on Amazon or something some hours have a book handy tell us how your family's doing catches up with your husband review to children,
what has been termed the ban Superman.
At home thing candy and asked him pretty. At this point, Termer heads
sooner children for six months and because
the time difference, sugar,
We call them on weekends. My friends
she's on her ABC can understand what this is about. The rhythm down and my sister
didn't think has taken care of his sister.
He's just some outrageous that good grandma. I get the sense that you,
we found a way to do it
In summary, the one thing that has been their separate it from our children is
but they do not proud. I thought you know that
they loved me and tell me they miss me. But then I asked me
coming home. They don't ask me: why are they don't cry than they don't cry and that this was important?
As for Adrian, as the commission
above accompany. She had a lot on his plate, whose main focus
keeping the Taliban out of a small city called a mom saw heap
would spend long hours planning missions that never materialised. Tell us certain very basic terms. What is the commission doing tomorrow morning? We're going to start a three day mission to seize and fortify Koran, tap a hill which
the only hill in northern mom Sahim after many
Frustrating weeks. One of
missions was finally approved its about.
a kilometer and a half to the north northeast of the city's northmost limits and its in bad guy territory
The area was called Kirk on top of a hill. It was mostly dirt no trees about eighty feet, high right above the city so taken
Cormorant Abigail is actually going to be the first time that we are making a step
in saying we're going out here, we're taking the silver fortifying it we're not giving back in recent years the Taliban and use the hill to launch rockets into a mob sahim aid.
Where they do so again.
time during a local election that was coming up in a few days. Time is a forty nine
yet time is too. There are very far from your trunk and am going one. Finally, is out
we are going around so honest
in September day, just as Adrian, had planned
a few dozen soldiers drove out to the hill
along the way
encountered an idea which they said.
we dead nodded
We got up there, we get some intel that
the Taliban had laid minds on the help you part of vehicles and began marching up the hill single file. We had minded factors and Vienna the best
explain to people in the army, Adrian
taking the arrears our work
just behind him the first year
Georgia's reached the top two of them. Who are
mine, sweepers began.
Scanning the hill and then
a mine went off.
So the first thing that wanted to cross across my mind was that somebody side- and I was Bach
and then you go in there
then a horrible realisation began to set in mind, didn't pick up anything. The Taliban buried minds made of plastic mines. It couldn't be detected the plastic refund.
I remember freezing in place
No one knew where to step might tackle
were garbage, so pretty much. What was going through my mind, was get those guys off the hill. One of the mind sweepers was badly injured.
The aim is quickly as they could. A few soldiers carried him off the hill and then
another mine went off all right. You know you're gonna get tourniquet.
The price goes forward. Now we got errors.
From that now, if you are not crucial yet off of that now, anyway, I came from guide dog with broken out over here right now,
in that way: Matthew Haze, twenty years old, lost his right leg,
and John Crammer twenty seven, thus both legs. The next day I met up with Adrian
yesterday was a long and pretty tough day. Tell us what happened. I don't know
it's it's impossible. You know a bottomless pit of of questions. I ultimately eight
I don't know me: I'm not gonna. Second, guess myself: it happened. It is what it is,
when there's a lot of things going on in the army, it's it's
thing in a bad thing. We are always being presented with something else, but then it's
moving forward you after you have time you to have the luxury of
of letting yourself really feel
and understand the ramifications of the feelings. That is the part of me that I could. I can very happily see, go away if I were in the army, but
the army? It's absolutely essential. Skip, get dwell on
I think it's actually a weird way better to be callous than to be.
Overly emotionally engaged for things, because it's just not productive. Who does that get me in
get out for company nowhere.
five months later I sat down
Adrian again, it was the end.
Battalions deployment and other troops were prepared.
To return home after a long difficult year review there
point to one thing,
Alpha company had accomplished amounting to one point two, if there's one thing that we ve accomplished, we have pushed out the boundaries of
for me that is securely held by the afghan government about
Kilometers North EAST and south and that
the place now where you can drive up. Another
in Afghan Ranger and does not worry about getting blown up
you're gonna be replaced by slightly smaller,
american. You did the concerns that it will be possible for them before what you gave you. I've heard some people,
voice concerns about this:
ability to hold this territory. I think my
Personal feeling is that the Afghans are are probably going to be able to hold it without much help from us at all. I know they ve extra, express some reservations about that, but
the combination of the afghan police. I would be outlawed
be surprised if the insurgents could could take back much of what they lost
even with the reduced forces that are coming in here, the Afghans have
The momentum now the afghan police do not the end
so yeah, I feel pretty good
nothing is actually asking. Yes, I think we ve we ve
currently set. Given them did the best opportunity they have to make lasting territorial advances. I feel good about. I'm gonna go home and asleep real well
and I fear, I feel good about it.
a few weeks later, Adrian in camera and the rest of the soldiers boarded. The job
fines and full home
after the break down
producers, Leslie Davis and then you ve met, follow up with terror and Adrian
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So what are you? What are you doing now? Absolutely nothing.
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and they didn't find him a term Monday afternoon. Recital one other, that's awful thing: you're, like the Serbian out, is an allowance job at the latter bout
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we're just gonna catch up with you and link here about where you're living. Now, what is your life like? Can you just tell us.
things are guy sure,
so my life right now.
Ten years down, the road from my second deployment to Afghanistan is
live in a small town, Branford Connecticut about fish.
in minutes outside a new haven. I work in that
garment of communications at Yale University, my wife and I
have a son, and he keeps me anymore
She occupied with their with helping
mature him into a fine young man.
When I left the military. The first thing I did
I established. I knew that I wanted to write.
And so, during the day I would might my days looks very similar, probably for a couple of years.
I would wake up around seven or eight and I would write
Hell two or three and I would go to the gym for and
our or two and once a week or two,
so weak. Sometimes I would go to therapy after that,
and then I will go out. I would go
with friends or oh god alone, to a bar, and I would drink.
and I'd probably have three to five drinks,
on a normal might on a week on a week night.
A weekend.
would be more like you know, eight to ten, and I was sort of self medicating to avoid Prs.
Bombs and it wasn't working because I was barely sleeping at night and in some cases I had such terrifying night.
experiences thought I
really started to feel like. I was maybe even like losing my mind, like
I was driving to wash.
can t see to see commander
of mine and
I was staying in a hotel and Scranton Pennsylvania ass. I drink
I had a few drinks because I wanted to pass.
rather than
I'll go to sleep scared, and I woke up and just
the last memory I had was of like this terrific beast, like some type of like demon of pure evil. That was after me,
And was intent on my destruction and I woke up and that still felt the thing was
Air and was like after me, and so I looked in the
Rome and I looked under the bed and so
just like got dressed. I like yank,
my pants on like as quickly as I could.
and I ran out of the hotel and got to my car and started driving. My therapist said you need to stop drinking that you know that was part of the thing that was making mean a sickly.
Making me have the bad feelings that I had, or at least not helping in any way, and so
she was like. You really need to stop doing this, and I thought to myself. I can't, but I can cut down but
I saw you know about my wife up because I was screaming last night and
and I have no way of predicting that
or really doing much about it.
The day on forgone tap a hill is
the day that I think about most stays there a few days ago by that, I don't think about it.
Least in passing in some way shape or form,
When I was a commander, I think I I
I was in
forcing stoicism.
Within myself. By and deeply
happening
the personality of the captain
in the tenth mountain division, who is an infantry commander and that was
I was
captain bought in burger. Didn't second guess himself and you move forward
do you do you miss our guy? Do you Miss Captain Lawton Burger King must being now
I dont mists. Captain bonding burger at all leave
happen. Barton burger in the past was one of the think. One of the reasons I left the military and I dont know I still lost a piece of a piece of him,
or me, but
maintaining. Captain Balin Burger at the expense of Adrian, was becoming less
less tenable and now I'm just a guy now interested
due to go through life and an that's fine.
When I was in the military, will be easy for me to judge
then go and leave my feelings at the door. It was, I think, you know what you
that uniform on your different person. Why would you put that uniform on your piece of equipment? You, your party, stop them bigger, but when you take off your man, but he is lying.
What's that got out images, I became like this big open book of emotion, like a big parliament, an emotional myth, since I've been out
do.
Ten years out from my experts,
of the war in Afghanistan. It seems like Afghanistan has. Has
reduced to the thing it was before I came in at this.
Corny metric of progress but like when we left
you Momsey District, Conduce province. Afghanistan I saw too
young women wearing blue jeans, which
it's like such a ridiculous thing. Now you know it's sort of like a cliche and a joke like ours,
great America got some women aware blue jeans essay. I guess we really won the war there at the time that felt very significant to me. It felt like this
The place for people kind of feel free to express themselves
in a symbolically and then within a week of our leaving about half of the people that,
had worked with were assassinated and
then a year the rest of them had been assassinated side of all of the leaders that I worked with
Afghanistan are now dead and we're dead within a year of our leaving, and I think to her
years after we left the Taliban retook, you know much
can do is I think they briefly occupied the city and at this point it's probably about where it was
when we were when we started out.
you have people then buried family members because of the war, and then you have voted that a year than lost lamb and people love tat with family. No man do did land and it's like people have backed up by so much. You know I got real, who didn't come back so did they risk their lives? For nothing
Lange. Where that often add I don't. I don't know how to feel honestly. Don't know how you feel
this week, the
was central command, which offers
The american presence in Afghanistan reported that the withdrawal process was twenty percent complete and that it was.
track to meet. President binds deadline of a full withdrawal by September eleven
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Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire that would pause,
Levin deadly days of war,
plus Hamas and Israel refused to communicate directly. The ceasefire
with mediated by Egypt both
I urge caution
acknowledging that the cease fire was fragile in esteem.
Really, Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu warned that quote,
the reality on the ground will determine
continuation of the campaign.
conversation with present now? I commend him for the decision to bring the current hostilities to a close in less than eleven days in remarks
on Thursday night shortly.
After speaking, with Netanyahu. President Biden,
raised Israel's government veil
that the? U S would help the people of Gaza we build and said,
that his administration would contain
who to work towards a larger peace deal, I believe,
Studies in Israelis.
equally deserved, live safely and securely and enjoy
Equal measures of freedom, prosperity
and democracy
administration will continue
Clyde, relentless diplomacy. Towards that end, I believe
a genuine opportunity to make progress
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