{"id":686551,"date":"2021-08-26T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=686551"},"modified":"2021-08-26T12:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:20:32","slug":"im-not-safe-i-want-to-get-out-marine-veteran-shares-messages-from-friends-still-trying-to-escape-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-not-safe-i-want-to-get-out-marine-veteran-shares-messages-from-friends-still-trying-to-escape-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Not Safe I Want To Get Out\u2019: Marine Veteran Shares Messages From Friends Still Trying To Escape Afghanistan"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fim-not-safe-i-want-to-get-out-marine-veteran-shares-messages-from-friends-still-trying-to-escape-afghanistan%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=686551&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.00.55-AM-e1629993691542.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Retired Marine bomb tech Joey Jones shared a series of messages from friends who were still trying to escape Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/12\/joey-jones-lori-lightfoot-police-honor-respect-sacrifice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jones<\/a> explained that he was in contact with a number of people still on the ground in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/26\/cia-us-military-mission-americans-afghanistan-kabul-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghanistan<\/a>, many of whom were concerned that they or their family members might be unable to get through the Taliban checkpoints and crowds outside Hamid Karzai International Airport. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/marine-veteran-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018This Is That Day Where We Say We Lost This War\u2019: Marine Veteran Sounds Off On Afghanistan Withdrawal)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.4736842105263\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thread: I have been fielding\/connecting individual veterans\u2019 efforts to get friends and their families out of Afghanistan. I\u2019ve spoken with some Americans in Afghanistan. This thread is their messages directly to me over the last week:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430724456327098375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.4545454545455\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI\u2019ve been helping try to get an interpreter out-his wife is 9 months pregnant. We were so so close but they are basically closing evacuation ops tomorrow from what I hear so I don\u2019t think they are going to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8\/25<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430724457874739205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.472843450479\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI have been working from 6 am to midnight over the last 3 weeks. My family is still stuck. Tying to evacuate them on 70 of my staff. The irony is that I am helping evacuate others to the US, But can\u2019t do anything for my own family Because of bureaucracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8\/24<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430724459040759810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.3283582089552\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI got my terp out in 2020. He lives in Dallas now but it took us 9 years to get him here. I\u2019m trying to get his brother and his family out now\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8\/25<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430724460361961477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.321608040201\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cterp that worked with eod techs. He is a us citizen here in the states his wife is in Afghanistan 9 months pregnant he is trying to bring her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8\/25<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430724462052270090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.2622950819672\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cIt\u2019s crazy what the [EOD] techs are doing on their own in order to help those interpretersand their families that helped us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8\/25<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430724463524564993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.4130434782609\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cNevermind. Got word even the agency is pulling everyone out. Got her a fam escort and contact at gate. The rest is prayer. I heard from a contact that it\u2019s all over in 48.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8\/25<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430724464925421569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"13.36170212766\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cstarted trying to get 2 buddies out of Kabul a week and a half ago. Terp and commando. I worked with orphans and refugees for ten years in conflict &amp; disaster zones. So, I began figuring out what they needed. Well, before I knew it, by Friday I was helping over 1,500 SIVs\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8\/23<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430724466351411204?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.4252873563218\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cWhat I\u2019ve witnessed in this time is absolutely UNFORGIVABLE. What this administration has done. We have AMCIT families still in hiding.<br \/>The Taliban has already killed a few of my terps\u2019 family members\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8\/23<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430724467714666496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.1240875912409\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cno one from the government will get me out. so ive gotta take a risk ans go soon\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8\/17<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430724468914130949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.426470588235\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cPlease rise my message to the world, I\u2019m habib noori from Afghanistan, presidential and Ministry award holder, its been 5 day\u2019s I\u2019m waiting in front of HKIA I\u2019m waiting for evacuation to get in to airport kindly help me my life is in danger I\u2019m not safe i want to get out of Afg\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430727082196312071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/08\/marine-vet-us-capitol-unrest-riot-joey-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jones<\/a> has been outspoken about the situation in Afghanistan since it began to unfold, saying that there was plenty of blame to go around to both political parties for allowing the war in Afghanistan to drag on as long as it did \u2014 but adding that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/26\/james-carville-afghanistan-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden administration<\/a> was responsible for the way that the troop drawdown and evacuation was carried out.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.1143911439114\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeBiden<\/a> administration is literally leaving the lives of Americans in the hands of the Taliban\u2026 for an example of how bad actors handle these types of \u201cpromises\u201d North Korea would tell you Otto Warmbier was a spy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1430605638091030529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe @JoeBiden administration is literally leaving the lives of Americans in the hands of the Taliban\u2026 for an example of how bad actors handle these types of \u2018promises\u2019 North Korea would tell you Otto Warmbier was a spy,\u201d Jones tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Marine bomb tech Joey Jones shared a series of messages from friends who were still trying to escape Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.Jones explained that he was in contact &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}