Chris Donahue looked serious and tired. The major general was holding an assault rifle in his right hand, ready to board the C-17 transport plane. Behind him can see the hangar of “Hamid Karzai International Airport”. This greenish photo was taken with a night vision camera at Kabul Airport. It is reminiscent of the recording released by the Pentagon at the beginning of the operation in 2001. Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, was the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan. On Monday night, one minute before midnight, C-17 took off. The longest war in the United States ended for 20 years.
Donahue was the last of the 775,000 American soldiers deployed in the Hindu Kush Mountains in the past two decades and was not ordered to Kabul until mid-August.His unit should help after seizing power Taliban Ensure the airport, the last location of the Americans. The old soldier’s adage was fulfilled again: When the president called 911, the phone in Fort Bragg rang. Fort Bragg, North Carolina is home to the 82nd Airborne Division and one of the largest military bases in the world.
