Gold Star father Mark Schmitz held nothing back during his Tuesday testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, taking direct aim at military leadership in addition to President Joe Biden and former Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.
Schmitz lost his son, Lance CPL Jared Schmitz, in the suicide bomb attack on Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate in Kabul on August 26, 2021. Two years later, he and a number of other Gold Star family members are still looking for answers after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan left 13 American service members dead and dozens more wounded.
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Wow. Mark Schmitz, whose son was killed in Kabul during the Biden Afghanistan withdrawal, goes scorched earth.
Says the admin has the families “knee-deep in bullshit,” Biden is a “disgrace” to the United States, and Blinken/Austin need to “pack up their shit” and resign. pic.twitter.com/q1dWugT9an
— Dylan Housman (@Dylan_Housman) August 29, 2023
“Two years has gone by, and where are we?…