danger what all the operators do, focus on your individual tasks, you focus on success, and you focus on doing your part of the mission as well as you possibly can. reporter: he was the mission commander of the final five flights out of kabul. he snapped this picture of another c-17 taking on afghan evacuees. in the background the cars and baggage and haj g hangars about to be left behind. i graduated the cair force academy in 2001 and a couple years later september 11th happened. my entire career has been spent with a conflict in afghanistan. to see it come to an end, that does make a mark, i think. reporter: pell bath knew time was precious. every second on the tarmac was added risk and with the final troops loading up the danger was at its peak. major general chris donahue, commander of the 82nd airborne, the last soldier to step off