FIRST ON FOX: Former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, a GOP rising star competing in the 2024 Montana Senate race, said the congressional hearing on the “very poorly” executed withdrawal from Afghanistan indicates that there remains no accountability for the 2021 event that “sent a message of weakness around the world.”
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Gen. Kenneth McKenzie testified on Tuesday in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the Biden administration’s deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
Both generals agreed that more could have been done to prevent the chaos that unfolded as a result of the withdrawal, admitting that “the fundamental mistake, the fundamental flaw, was the timing of the State Department call” for the evacuation of U.S. citizens who remained in the country.
Sheehy, who received the Bronze Star with Valor for Heroism in Combat and the Purple Heart Medal, remains “proud” of his military service …