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2022-08-28 Afghanistan
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After six deployments, he was ready to move on from the war in Afghanistan. It followed him to Pennsylvania.
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[USA Today] MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — When Matt Coburn retired from the U.S. Army in spring 2021, after six deployments to Afghanistan, the Green Beret was ready to leave the war behind.
He was haunted by memories of friends being killed or maimed, and he was mentally exhausted by the military's bureaucracy.
He moved his family to this small town in south-central Pennsylvania, where he took a civilian job as a manager at an Amazon warehouse and promised his wife a more tranquil life..
But a year after the U.S. withdrawal, Afghanistan has come to him — and to his newly adopted hometown in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
The first to arrive was Azizullah Azizyar — a command sergeant major in the Afghan military who had worked closely with Coburn on special operations training. Reeling from the botched U.S. exit, Coburn agreed to sponsor Azizyar and his family, as he and other veterans frantically worked to help their Afghan friends escape.
Then came Pashtoon Peer Mohammad, another command sergeant major who escaped Kabul after hiding in the woods outside the capital for eight days. When he arrived at Fort Pickett, Peer Mohammad planned to move to Texas, where he'd lived while training at the U.S. Army Sergeant Major Academy.
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