Major General Hank Taylor: 3,800 Evacuated People in the Last 24 Hours from Afghanistan

RUSH EXCERPT:

TAYLOR: “The situation a week ago was different than it is today. The airport remains secure. Us military personnel oversee flight operations, us military contracted aircraft as well as for an aircraft operate within kabul airport. Additionally the us military has maintained gate security and supported State Department colleagues in processing of individuals to prepare for evacuation flights out of Afghanistan. Critical to Afghans at risk out of the dire situation in Afghanistan requires additional space at intermediate safe havens and other locations. This impacts our throughput. The us military airlifted nearly 6000 evacuees in a single day. In the last 24 hours, six U.S. Military C-17s and 32 charters departed Kabul. Through this combined effort into the passenger count, approximately 3800. In the past 24 hours, a number of see 70s are moving between cutter in Germany providing critical relief that would increase our input to intermediate, in the past 24 hours three flights landed at dulles international airport.”