A retired Green Beret who lives in Nome spent two months training troops in Ukraine. Now he's advocating for adjustments in American defense policy to better aid the Ukrainians.
After arriving in Poland, a taxi driver helped Hayward source transportation: a used ambulance he bought for 4,000 euros
“There was an American with a bus that said, ‘I’m here to put some hurt on the Russian armor,’ ” Anton said from his home in the United States, where he’d returned this week. In this image taken from footage provided by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service, a Ukrainian soldier uses a launcher with US Javelin missiles during military exercises in Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Jan. 12, 2022.
What Hayward and Anton saw were expensive, powerful systems essentially sitting on shelves and in basements, with Ukrainian troops conserving them as a kind of Hail Mary tool soldiers might use as a desperate last resort if a tank approached, hoping they could figure out how to fire them in the moment of truth.
“Within 96 hours of getting that first battery built, they were sending out combat patrols to hunt for and engage with Russian armor,” Hayward said. “Within 96 hours, they had killed the first Russian tank with a Javelin.”A Ukrainian soldier trains with equipment that is part of the Javelin missile system on March 31. The system is supplied by the United States to use against Russian armored units.
“We get requests for assistance from constituents every day, but Mark’s case was unique for a number of reasons, including that we had to communicate securely at odd hours of the night and were very careful about passing details about him to agencies for his safety,” said Steve Wackowski, state director for Murkowski, and a combat veteran who developed a kinship with Hayward during their exchanges.
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