the kabul airport gave their lives to save others and no higher calling. general mark milley explained why bagram air base was closed. >> our task given to us was to protect the embassy. in order for the embassy personnel to continue to function with the consular services and all that. if we were to keep both bagram and embassy going it would be a significant number of military forces that would have exceeded what we had, stayed the same or exceeded what we had. >> questions about why u.s. forces departed afghanistan forces so rapidly all out of the country in early july and questions why so many afghan interpreters were left behind and those not evacuated helped the u.s. military for two decades. the state department and pentagon are refusing to say how many were more than 100,000 afghan refugees evacuated and it was the generals decided