Petroleum Club of Houston luncheon event

Please join me at the Petroleum Club of Houston for their annual Veterans' Day Tribute on Monday, November 10, 2025. I will introduce members of Badger Six, a nonprofit organization that is attempting to raise awareness about the plight of the Afghan allies who helped the CIA after 9/11.

On September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. Half a world away, Usama bin Ladin and his al-Qaida terrorists celebrated in Afghanistan, their presumed safe haven, which was under the protection of the Taliban regime.

In October, CIA’s Team Alpha became the first U.S. force to be inserted behind enemy lines. The team consisted of four paramilitary officers, two operations officers, one medic, and one Green Beret officer detailed to the CIA.

Team Alpha linked up with Afghan partners, mostly ethnic Uzbek cavalrymen. U.S. Army Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha 595 was…