Chatting today with Sayre Payne. Sayre has been working hard over the last few months to coordinate flights out of Afghanistan for many interpreters and their families. Started speeding up in July, got chaotic in August and now it's a totally different game. He gets into the background of why so many civilians and veterans no longer associated with the US government jumped in to help, the challenges they ran into on the ground and where he thinks this is going from here.
Sayre was a Ranger-qualified Infantry Officer and served as a platoon leader for the entirety of a twelve month deployment to Zhari District, Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne Division’s 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment during the troop surge of 2010-2011.
