Marine Staff Sgt.--A PFC could come up with better exit plan

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Bee, who nearly died more than once in Afghanistan and was photographed ducking for cover as a Taliban sniper’s bullet exploded on a stone wall inches from his head in 2008, said it was ludicrous to pull out the way U.S. forces did and that a private first class earning one-tenth of what the Joint Chiefs of Staff are paid could have come up with a better solution.

FILE PHOTO: Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan May 18, 2008.  The Marine was not injured. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo)

"We pay the Joint Chiefs $16,000 a month; we pay a PFC $1,600 a month, and I guarantee you, if I ask a PFC, hey put your crayons down, if you let me know a good way to get everybody out of Afghanistan. And he could have came up with a better program," he said.

And he said Biden’s national security advisers should have taken a page from Gen. Jim Mattis and resigned if they had seen any problems with the withdrawal.

"I haven’t even heard anything from the secretary of defense," Bee said. "None of the Joint Chiefs said, ‘Hey, this is a stupid plan. I would rather surrender my friggin’ commission than let this happen.’"

He said he initially hoped the abrupt timeline was just a ploy by the president to lure out the Taliban and crush their offensive with a surprise counterattack.

"Nope, he really just straight-up duck tailed and ran," he said.
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The picture is an iconic shot of Bee dodging sniper fire in Afghanistan early in the war.  I have listened to a few Marine Corps Staff Sgts. in my day and he sounds like the real deal.