Able Quote by John Kiriakou

I signed up for military service in the months following 9/11, and later, as a military intelligence officer, I felt called, like so many…

— Jason Kander

I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq a few times, and then I've done deployments elsewhere - with Special Forces, we go all over the…

— Tim Kennedy

I was in Saudi Arabia on 9/11 and was part of the initial leadership team to execute the initial combat operations in Afghanistan.

— Martha McSally

I have been to Afghanistan many times, even before the Taliban collapsed. I was fascinated by the country.

— Kabir Khan

I was happy to be in Afghanistan, doing these real-world operations and taking the fight to the terrorists that attacked us.

— Brandon Webb

If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the…

— Henry Rollins

I have spent my life working to protect our country. I served three tours in Iraq with the CIA, served in national security positions…

— Elissa Slotkin

I joined the State Department in the post-9/11 world. I lived and worked on a NATO military base in Afghanistan, surrounded by coalition nations…

— Andy Kim

I personally was involved in going over to Afghanistan to meet the troops. My father was a marine, so that was just amazing.

— Eva Marie

Two years in a row, I went to Kuwait for a week. I lived in the barracks with U.S. troops; that was pretty interesting.

— Tom Izzo

I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there…

— Sebastian Junger

A few weeks after the planes hit the World Trade Center, I applied for a direct commission in the U.S. Army Reserve and ultimately…

— Cal Cunningham