In this episode, we discuss:

-Tanner getting assigned his squad before deploying with the 24th MEU

-What the deployment looked like before heading to HKIA

-His reaction to the news that the MEU would deploy to Kabul  

-His understanding of the situation in Kabul before touching ground in HKIA

-Tanner’s first days at HKIA

-Clearing the airport of civilians 

-Working with the Taliban

-Gate operations and the challenges they presented

-The role of exhaustion in operations

-Using maneuver warfare concepts and tools 

-The Abbey Gate Bombing

-Tanner’s experiences between the bombing and before his unit departed HKIA

-What he observed in his fellow Marines and himself in Kuwait following the NEO

-His experience of returning to Camp Lejeune

-The most frustrating and rewarding aspects of the HKIA mission

-The presence of personal cell phones and computers at HKIA

-Tanner’s appraisal of his performance at HKIA

-The supposed animosity between 1/8 and 2/1

-Tanner’s advice for Marines transitioning into civilian life