They were a skeleton crew of only 44, ranging in age from 21 to 28, and were left behind in Qatar to defend their base from an incoming bombardment of Iranian missiles — and they “crushed it,” said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine.
The place — the critical Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar on Monday, an installment normally occupied by 10,000 American soldiers.
“Imagine you’re that young first lieutenant,” the general said in a Pentagon news briefing Thursday. “You’re 25 or 26 years old, and you’ve been assigned as the tactical director inside the command and control element. You, at that age, are the sole person responsible…
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