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U.S. veterans try to rescue Afghan interpretersThe distress call came in over WhatsApp the same day that Kabul fell to the Taliban. “’Gunny,’” the voice from far away said, according to the recently retired Marine who received the call Aug. 15. “I need help. The Taliban are trying to hunt me.”
The caller was an Afghan who served as an interpreter with his unit a decade ago, the retired Marine, who held the rank of gunnery sergeant at the time, told NBC News.
“We became friends and stayed in touch after I left Afghanistan,” he said. NBC News is not identifying the retired Marine, who lives in California, to prevent the Taliban from connecting him to the interpreter. “He said he was already getting death threats and he was worried about his family.”
Immediately, he said, “I kicked into overdrive and started calling other members of my unit” and quickly discovered they had heard from three other terrified “terps” who were also in danger.
We formed a group and started asking ourselves, ‘Who do we know on the ground in Kabul who could help us? How do we get the four "terps" and their families to the gates” of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, he said.
Such veterans groups have popped up across the country since the shocking Taliban takeover two weeks ago.
Operating individually or in association with others, the groups have been using the skills they honed in the military and the social media savvy they picked up as civilians to save their former Afghans interpreters and their families from the Taliban.
Responding at lightning speed to frantic SOS calls, they’ve been rapidly reviving long-dormant escape networks to get these vulnerable Afghans out of immediate danger, if not out of the country.
“We can’t leave them behind,” the retired Marine said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-veterans-try-to-rescue-afghan-interpreters/ar-AANHEoS
There's a School Bus Driver Shortage in the U.S. — and 1 District Is Offering $4,000 to Sign On
Some districts are asking parents to drive their children to school, while others are telling parents that their kids will have to walk to and from school
Parents across the United States are facing additional stress as their children prepare to return to school amid an ongoing school bus driver shortage.
School districts in a number of states, including Florida, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland, have all been affected by the shortage of bus drivers, according to CBS News.
Many of the drivers have quit due to concerns related to COVID-19. Twenty drivers with Lee County Schools in Florida quit because they were worried students would not be wearing masks, Fox affiliate WFTX reported.
Some schools, like Chesterfield County Public Schools in Virginia, have attempted to mend the situation by calling on parents to assist with the shortage.
"We have over 690 buses in our fleet… and we're short about 100 drivers. We need your help," Chesterfield Superintendent Dr. Merv Daugherty said in a video posted on Facebook. "We are asking you to please drive your child to school."
EastSide Charter School in Delaware announced on their website that they were also facing a bus driver shortage and would be offering parents $700 per child to drive their own kids to and from school.
https://people.com/human-interest/school-bus-driver-shortage-in-us-districts-offering-incentives-sign-on-bonuses/
Kek, yeah
Was just thinking how it might do kids guud to walk uphill in the snow both ways to get to school, like grandparents said they did.
But the smellvision you provided is better
Night shift best shift!