Rep. Loudermilk’s Weekly Newsletter

Dobbins Airmen from the 80th Aerial Port Squadron recently contributed to operations evacuating thousands of people from Afghanistan.

These Reserve Citizen Airmen are part of a team capable of performing every aerial port function needed to deploy units and ensure cargo is ready to fly, at short notice, said Chief Master Sgt. Luis Agredo, 80th APS superintendent. 

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In the wake of recent attacks at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, that left 13 U.S. service members dead and many more wounded, Cobb Countians have been grappling with the loss as the U.S. closes out its presence in the country after a 20-year war.

On Thursday, a suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport killed 11 Marines, one Navy sailor and one Army soldier, as well as scores of Afghans. Of the U.S. service members killed, 12 were in their 20s, with some born in 2001, the year America’s presence in Afghanistan began. The oldest was 31.

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As hard as Kevin McCarthy has hammered the White House over the chaotic and deadly U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, he’s under rising pressure from his right to go further.

The House minority leader has repeatedly pushed back on rank-and-file Republicans who want to make a high-stakes call for impeaching Biden over his handling of Afghanistan — a vow that would come due should the GOP take back the chamber next November. But multiple House Republican sources said that even before Tuesday’s fraught end to the U.S. military mission, their offices were being bombarded with calls from base voters for a future Biden impeachment or another more forceful response against the administration. 

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