Marine names new son after two Camp Pendleton friends killed in Kabul airport bombing a year ago
Karl had trained with Lopez and Merola’s Golf Company unit in Twentynine Palms before the 2/1 was deployed in April 2021 to the Middle East, spread over several countries. They reunited at the Kabul airport, where units of Marines were sent to provide security and work with the U.S. State Department in evacuating American civilians and Afghan allies.“As soon as the IED went off, we ran to help the casualties and set up security, ” said Karl, then team leader for an engineer squad.
And then, walking around asking about others, he learned of Lopez and another friend, his heart sinking further. “When Hunter talked, everybody listened,” Karl said. “He would do absolutely anything for the people he cared about.” “We didn’t fully understand what it was going to be like,” Karl said, adding the flight took nearly 10 hours and most Marines, including him, had no sleep. “The War onTerror had slowed down, so many didn’t think this would happen in their careers.”“We were told 100% get ready to be in a gunfight when we landed,” he said. The airport was more like a giant outdoor city with shops, restaurants, a soccer field and gathering areas – very different from what Americans know airports to be.
“Thousands were screaming,” Karl said of the throngs his crew were supposed to keep behind security wire, “and they were all trying to talk to us to let them through.” “It was a complete shock; I felt like I landed on an alien planet,” he said. “I didn’t feel like I belonged.”“I would have taken any one of those guys’ places,” he said. “I was coming home to a family.”
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