including 5,400 americans have been evacuated from afghanistan. u.s. military troops have shown tremendous briefsh re and kam passion putting themselves in harm s way to evacuate as many american citizens and afghans as possible during this operation. that work by u.s. service members continues across the globe at a number of intermediate staging bases and d.o.d. installations. centcom more than 27,000 passengers await follow-on movement from six active locations. in u com three active locations currently have more than 22,000 passengers and today 17 flights will transport about 3,700 passengers to both dulles airport with 11 flights and philadelphia international airport with six flights.