Unwilling to let their Afghan allies flounder, numerous veteran volunteers have created evacuation organizations. They are supporting tens of thousands of Afghans who are stricken with poverty and famine — allies facing an enemy hellbent on capturing, torturing, and in some cases killing them.
16 largely veteran-run evacuation organizations have joined to form the Moral Compass Federation. They are also working to shine a light on and combat moral injury brought on by six months of making life-and-death decisions. This burden has been heavy. Duke, a former recon platoon sergeant and volunteer with Operation North Star, told the Washington Examiner, “I try to explain it to my family. How was [my] day? I got to decide who we made safe today, and who we didn’t.”
