Damon Gossett, a former U.S. Marine who was deployed to Afghanistan during the evacuation of the country in 2021, visited North Texas to meet with Afghan...
Damon Gossett, 22, was parts of the U.S. forces providing protection at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport in August 2021.
Gossett and the other U.S. Marines in his platoon were tasked with keeping order and protecting Abbey Gate of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport during the mass evacuation of Afghanistan as the country fell into the control of the Taliban in 2021.Since the end of his deployment, Gossett said he has been trying to come to terms with the traumatic experiences of those 12 days in Kabul.
— not far from where Gossett was positioned. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed 13 American military service members and approximately 170 Afghan civilians,Even after he left Afghanistan and was waiting in Kuwait before his return to the U.S., Gossett had a hard time processing his experiences.
“After we went back to Kuwait, we had the memorials for everyone that died, but everyone just quit talking about it; we just had to go on with life like nothing ever happened, and I think a lot of people really struggled with that,” Green said. Webb, who lives in Dallas, told Malakzai he would figure out a way to bring his family to the U.S. Malakzai, his wife and his daughter are among the hundreds of Afghan families that live in North Texas.As Malakzai, with Webb’s instructions, approached Abbey Gate, he said he saw what looked like “millions of people” trying to escape the country. Webb had sent him a document to print out and told him to show it to U.S. military personnel at the gate.
“I kept on sending him pictures of all the families and I was like, ‘Hey, I know you lost friends and everything but look, this is what you did; these people are alive because of y’all,’” Webb said.
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