{"id":1456784,"date":"2022-04-28T12:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1456784"},"modified":"2022-04-28T12:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T16:44:43","slug":"the-eye-of-the-storm-tom-cotton-honors-staffer-who-earned-bronze-star-during-afghan-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-eye-of-the-storm-tom-cotton-honors-staffer-who-earned-bronze-star-during-afghan-evacuation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Eye Of The Storm\u2019: Tom Cotton Honors Staffer Who Earned Bronze Star During Afghan Evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-eye-of-the-storm-tom-cotton-honors-staffer-who-earned-bronze-star-during-afghan-evacuation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1456784&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1235580961.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) took some time on Wednesday to honor his Deputy National Security Advisor, Lieutenant Kristen Trindle, for her service in Afghanistan during last year\u2019s evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s retreat from Afghanistan was a dark chapter for our country,\u201d Cotton <a href=\"https:\/\/swark.today\/sen-tom-cotton-honoring-navy-reservist-and-my-deputy-national-security-advisor-kristen-trindle-for-kabul-deployment\/\">began<\/a>. \u201cWe all remember the terrible scenes of desperate people clinging to the undersides of planes, of Taliban thugs beating innocent people, and, most tragically of all, 13 flag-draped caskets containing the remains of brave American servicemen and women, killed by an ISIS suicide bomb. We will never forget those tragic events. They\u2019re grim reminders about the wages of weakness in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor every act of cowardice in Washington, for every act of evil by our enemies, there is an act of even greater bravery by our troops,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/american-lives-are-at-risk-sen-cotton-blasts-report-on-biden-afghan-evacuee-screening-failures\/\">Cotton<\/a> continued. \u201cAs they always do, Americans redeem even the most forlorn missions through extraordinary action.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Cotton honors his Deputy National Security Adviser Kristen Trindle on the floor: &#8220;I know that Lt. Trindle would be too humble to sit beside me today if she had any idea about what I&#8217;m going to stay. Last year she took a leave of absence from her Senate duties to deploy\u2026&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LQVBWCcGQl\">pic.twitter.com\/LQVBWCcGQl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeremy Art (@cspanJeremy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspanJeremy\/status\/1519406418604052481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to recognize one of our nation\u2019s heroes today,\u201d he continued, turning to the woman seated just off to the side. \u201cNavy Lieutenant Kristen Trindle is a member of my team in the Senate, where she does excellent work as my Deputy National Security Advisor after starting six years ago as my intern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that Lt. Trindle would be too humble to sit beside me today if she had any idea about what I\u2019m going to say,\u201d Cotton continued. \u201cLast year she took a leave of absence from her Senate duties to deploy with the Navy Reserves. That deployment took her to Kabul, the eye of the storm. Lt. Trindle served as aide de camp to the general in charge of the evacuation. Their mission? To save as many Americans and Afghan allies as possible from the advancing Taliban.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton went on to say that Trindle had been instrumental in assisting with developing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/military-reserves-officer-allegedly-falsified-recommendation-letters-for-afghans-seeking-special-visas\/\">screening processes<\/a> for potential evacuees and coordinating the evacuation with other involved nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose actions alone would have been worthy of commendation, but Lt. Trindle went above and beyond the call of duty. She volunteered to leave the relative safety of headquarters to lead a clandestine extraction team charged with finding and recovering Americans and Afghan allies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton noted that Trindle did not flinch when those rescue missions required her to move sometimes within yards of the enemy, adding, \u201cShe executed these missions in the dead of night, despite confirmed threats, within sight of the enemy. Armed Taliban fighters were regularly within 100 yards of her position, beating and whipping civilians\u2014and menacing Americans. Lt. Trindle was unphased by this danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nation has awarded Lt. Trindle the Bronze Star for her actions during the evacuation. I had the great honor of presenting that medal to her earlier today,\u201d Cotton concluded, noting that Trindle and her team had assisted in the rescue of 961 Americans and Afghan allies. \u201cAs the official account of Lt. Trindle\u2019s action notes, she \u2018achieved 100% mission success in the face of unparalleled chaos.\u2019 I would add that Lt. Trindle met \u201cunparalleled chaos\u201d with unparalleled courage. She deserves every bit of this high honor\u2014and she deserves her country\u2019s sincere gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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