Satire: Troops in Afghanistan heartbroken after Speaker Pelosi’s visit cancelled

Satire: Troops in Afghanistan heartbroken after Speaker Pelosi’s visit cancelled

https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/01/troops-in-afghanistan-heartbroken-after-speaker-pelosis-visit-cancelled/?utm_source=Normal+Subscribers&utm_campaign=5a3af07731-Duffel_Blog_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6d392bc034-5a3af07731-23799693&goal=0_6d392bc034-5a3af07731-23799693&mc_cid=5a3af07731&mc_eid=5338b90a1a

Excerpt: BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — Service members currently deployed to Afghanistan were devastated when they learned that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her entourage of congressmen had cancelled their planned visit this past weekend, sources confirmed today. ... “It’s terrible,” Staff Sgt. Paul Morin said. “They were going to cancel the vehicle inspection so we could all go shake her hand for six seconds, but then we had to clean all the vehicles three times.” “It’s a shame,” Sgt. 1st Class Mark Klages said. “Morale has gotten get pretty low around here with the holidays being over, the awful weather, the ANA’s incompetence and our confusing strategy, but it would have helped a lot to be talked at by an old lady from San Francisco.”