My brother spent a career in the Army Special Forces. My son graduated from West Point and flies Army helicopters. I have listened to two generations of family describe what happens when the people around them on a deployment do their jobs, and what happens when they do not. Specialist Winston Hencely learned that lesson in 2016, when a Taliban operative walked onto a U.S. base in Afghanistan in a suicide vest.
The bomber, Ahmad Nayeb, was on Fluor Corporation’s payroll under Afghan First, the Army’s local-hiring program. Hencely tackled him before he reached a larger crowd, and survived with a fractured skull and brain injuries. Five soldiers did not survive, and 17 more were wounded. The Army’s own investigation found Fluor had negligently supervised the man who killed them.
