"The withdrawal was a catastrophe." 

This man is an American hero. Why is there no accountability for our government & military leaders?

Ive talked about the many traumatic events from my three deployments in therapy, but never in front of a room of hundreds of people. The fact that this man was able to make it through this in front of so many people speaks volumes about his strength and intestinal fortitude. Very few men have the strength to make it through something like this. God bless you Sergeant, and I pray that your courage to testify does not go unheeded by our leadership.

Why the hell isn’t anyone from military leadership held accountable?

The fact that he is telling his traumatic experience to the whole world and being as vulnerable as he is incredible. I hope this marine finds peace.

Semper Fi Sgt Vargas. I'm sorry this happened brother.

Those who died that day deserve justice.

What a massive tragedy. This entire administration needs to be held accountable for that absolute disaster of a withdrawal from Afghanistan, and a ton of other things too. They sit back with their stupid faces, not giving a damn about these soldiers, or our country and it's citizens. All they care about is money and power. It's sick and absolutely disgraceful. If this doesn't make you angry, you are part of the problem.

Gut wrenching testimony. He is bringing truth about what went down during the withdrawal, and how those 11 Marines, 1 Navy and 1 soldier died at the hands of a suicide bomber. He is a Marine sniper who had a bead on the guy, but command did not give him permission to take him out...sad

This is what real trauma and PTSD looks like. The snowflakes claiming words are violence and every little thing that doesn’t go their way traumatic have minimized the meaning of those words.

😓 and I bet "President" Biden didn't watch a single second of this.... Thank you for your service & sacrifice Sir.

Completely Biden's fault.

Congressional Medal of Honor for this Marine and a PERSONAL APOLOGY FROM THE Commander in Chief the SEC of Defense and most of all General Milley. This was more than a catastrophe it was a C.... OF EPIC PROPORTIONS

So 13 Soliders/warriors died that could of been prevented all because this Sgt's higher ups wouldn't allow him to take out the threat.

All I wish to do is hug this man.

God bless you. Thank you for your service! My heart aches for our military people & for how they've been treated. And to all the military people in the comments, please know that We the People love & respect you! Thank you all for your service! ❤️🙏🇺🇲

This is what happens when we have weak ass leaders leading us

Post the full testimony please

You are a hero. Thank you for your service. ❤

God please bless this heroic man with love and peace. Please hold those responsible accountable!

I just want to give this man a hug and a handshake. Tell this man he’s a true American Hero in every sense of the term. I’m honored to be an American because of this guy and many more like him.

Thank you for posting this.

The problem is we have put lawyers in the way of our soldiers. Thanks to lawyers, this young Marine is forever maimed and scared. Get the lawyers off the battlefield.

@CSPAN where is the full testimony? This is news while other things are not.

The fact that this only has 34k views is a fucking disgrace. I never heard about this hearing on ANY media outlet. Them covering up this story is infuriating to say the least

This should have way more attention and views.

Much love to all the service men and women. That withdrawal was a disgrace, regardless of who decided what. And @thewiredchristian you're a dope smoking clown, your comment reflects this clearly.

Ty for the courage AGAIN to speak to congress. I am praying that you were heard this time- former Navy Nurse LT . May God grant you peace and continued healing.

This is horrible and the first time I’ve heard about it because I watched the Shawn Ryan show. The people in charge of him should be held responsible!

Thank you sir. Thank you.

He read well thank God Bless you

His commander team his friends his true hero thank you for standing up for them all

Unconscionable. I’m so sorry.

Lord 🙏 Bless you Sir I salute you ! I lament you had to endure such a tragedy! Thank you for your service ☮️

I'm just speechless.😢❤

How about we listen to the soldiers for who is to blame? They were there, they know!

My heart breaks for this

I wonder did they ever find out why they denied authority to take the bomber out?! I would really like to know what their reasoning behind that was.... Absolutely disgraceful what this administration did.. Thank you so much Sir for your service 🇺🇸 God bless you and your family.. You are a true hero... Lots of love and support sweetheart ♥️🤍💙🙏🫶

God bless you soldier.

No generals were relieved.

Yet the democrats claimed in that meeting the withdrawal was heroic and courageous

Clarification. You had courage to be in theatre and then again in front of all those people. Peace Sergeant. You are a hero

I spent 15 years defeating, training Soldiers against these types of scenarios. Clearly the problem is the Bn Commander lack of action to do what was right in trusting those on the front line. I bet a cup of Black Rifle Coffee that the Bn Commander lacked combat experience and balls to put his career on the line. This is from a retired LT COL with three one-year tours in Iraq and three in Afghanistan. Sempre Fi Brother!!!!

Our leaders and government need to be held accountable and punished accordingly

OMG😭to say it’s heartbreaking and unjustifiable is not enough. How do we care more about other countries than our own military 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️‍🩹🙏🏻of strength and healing for Tyler and all of our troops 😘

🙏🙏🙏 Praying for heroes like this man and so many others willing to give their lives for us. Jesus our lord praying for his healing and fullness of live 💞🙏

He is really a brave Man

Note the lack of emotion in the room.

I'm so angry. I am from a big military family. Grandpa, dad, his three brothers, and my brother. This is shameful. Who is accountable? Who should be required to carry the pain, PTSD, angry, and loss, the way this warrior has to?? This is not rhetorical, I want some one to pay.

How the eff does this video only have 325 "likes" (as of this comment)?! This video should lead every newscast in America for at least a week. Ignoring this is absolutely disgusting.

Sgt. Vargas said "I requested for the battalion commander, Lt. Colonel Whithead, to come to the tower to see what we did. While we waited for him, psychological operations individuals came to our tower immediately and confirmed the suspect met the suicide bomber description." According to General Frank McKenzie, in a 9/8/23 interview on Fox News said "I can tell you that there was no 'be on the lookout for a person meeting that description'. There was no intelligence to support the assertion that we knew what the bomber looked like, that he was carrying a back back with three yellow stripes. There was none of that. We just didn't have that intelligence."

Really hard to listen to, but the President needs to listen to It... And he needs to feel something......... like shame... And failure

You made a Marine cry. I was in Marine Corps boot camp and let me tell you something. That's significant. After seeing that. It should probably genuinely wake you up!

Tyler is incredible

To raise awareness, I would love to see a movie made about these heroes. Similar to the movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Maybe this is why recruiting is at an all time low. Just a thought.

Semper FI brother.

These heroes were BETRAYED.

What are we doing to our men?! God Bless this man, you are a hero through and through. Thank you for all you’ve given for America! You deserve better sir! 🙏❤️BUT again WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR MEN?! 💔

God bless him

True American hero.

This is criminal dereliction of duty from the top....

Soldiers paid with their lives. The accountable military leadership in this case walks free...

So basically we've been occupying Afgan for so long to train the ANA to stand up for themselves and fight off the taliban. Problem was most of them were the taliban and didn't care. So now they not only have full control of country, they also have billions in left behind equipment structures and ammunition. Its almost if we planned it that way.

The “Afghanistan Papers”. 20 years of public lies/20 years of private truths

I see the congressman from my district (D), a staunchly vocal defender of Biden's bumbling antics, sitting there looking downward as Sgt. Vargas-Andrews speaks. Yeah... you better not look up.

More people need to hear this..................... why

HAYYY!!! LAHAT AY MAY KABAYARAN SA LAHAT MONG GINAWANG KABUTIHAN AT LALUNG-LALO NA ANG MGA KASAMAAN O KASALANAN!!! LAHAT AY HAHARAP SA DYOS!!! IPAGDASAL ANG MGA NALILIGAW NA KALULUWA NA MAGBALIK-LOOB NANG BUONG-BUO SA DYOS, NGAYON DIN MISMO BAGO MAHULI ANG LAHAT AT KAPAYAPAAN SA MUNDO!!!

Where's the video of this full hearing?

I had to sleep in water up to my neck in the war in 1965 at night to keep the mostly from eating us up i was first Lt i made it back to United States save thank God a soldier at..war pray for them

Invading 2 countries was a disaster

Semper Fi Sgt Vargas. FJB & his regime.

Our sins have piled up to the moon…oh LORD have mercy on these souls who close their eyes to what their greed and hunger for power has done…

This is the result when you have division in a country, incompetent leaders or people in positions of power, maybe mediocre or poorly trained or when you have the enemy giving the orders and working for the enemy instead of for the people and country 🤔 that pays them and they're supposed to represent! When your government is infiltrated and taken over by the enemy and people get only 75 or 85% training! It is shameful and a disgrace what happened in Afghanistan and has been occurring in this country for a long time. What's worse is the cover up where the evil doers or incompetents are protected and permitted to continue in their positions working against the country! Those who gave the orders were mediocre incompetent, apparently were absent to training when they were told not to give up the base or to destroy whatever stayed behind and to never leave anyone behind!!! They made this country look ridiculous, weak, moronic, embarrassed the country and its military and worked for the enemy! And it continues as we saw what went on with the Chinese spy balloons and was happening during the Obama administration also. And the soldiers are paying the consequences with their lives! Don't start wars if you're not going to win! If you're going to play stupid, listen to the enemy, make concessions, tie your hands behind your backs and don't know what you're doing or if the men aren't patriots, love their country and really want to be victorious giving their all. Starting with those at the top!!! Shame on all the leaders political military or other who've sold their souls to the enemy, and have not had the backs of these young men who went out to fight for their country and were abandoned by those who were supposed to have their backs!!!

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Four more years, right?

😢

Impeach 46.

Are the corporate media reporting on this? Or another cover up?

😯🥺

Them soldiers thinking they're getting to go home soon, and all the Afghanis knowing it's over for them.

Semper Fidelis Devildog. Feel that, people? The collective boiling point. I understand what righteous anger is, do you? The opposing Velcro patches may not line up on the plate carrier anymore but I’m still ready. Lol.

Fighting for men who think they are women. I'd never fight for this new country. Terribly sorry bubba.

Overthrow the gov at this point

This is what happens when the blind elect the weak.

SGT Vargas-Andrews did not kill himself

no wonder people are leaving the military

This shouldn't have happened!

😔😔😔😔😔😔

In the mean time on this same day. Dr. Jill was handing out an award of courage to a transgender....... I mean. that should make up for pretty much everything the bibens have fucked up over the last 50 some odd years.. Right?

No surprise. This is the USA nowadays.

If I have 10 kids I won’t let not even 1 to be in army , I don’t want my kid to fight for politicians enrichment

Biden. This is on him.

This Hero deserves answers why they were not allowed to engage the threat when he was in their sight's

Who would ever want to fight for the bourgeoisie?

FJB !!!

Xin loi chong toi la army khong phai nguoi dan su

There is *so many huge flawed holes* in Joe's withdrawal, that it could make a polka dot dress for an elephant.

Cambodia all over again - Shame on Biden - Never gave a tinkers about these soldiers or the Afghan people! Disturbing and heartbreaking!

Sometimes even your best is not good energy, granted it’s better than 99% but sometimes you are punished for not being in the top 10 %. I will end up committing suicide but I made an effort and truth be told, what’s another dead Marine!

C-SPAN SWAMP RIGGED CALLS 🤣