After six deployments to Afghanistan, Matt Coburn was prepared to depart the warfare behind him. Then got here the disastrous U.S. withdrawal and a flood of pleas for assist from his Afghan buddies.
- A small Pennsylvania city is now dwelling to a rising Afghan refugee group.
- He has sponsored or helped about 10 Afghan households who’ve moved to his group.
- ‘It’s important to begin from scratch,’ one Afghan-American suggested the arrival refugees.
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. – When Matt Coburn retired from the U.S. Army in spring 2021, after six deployments to Afghanistan, the Inexperienced Beret was prepared to depart the warfare behind.
He was haunted by reminiscences of buddies being killed or maimed, and he was mentally exhausted by the army’s paperwork.
