those were all provided by the services. the services provided within the recommendations for the department, they took a look at each location and offered up those installations for approval by the department. we ll take one more and we ll let the general close it out. terese? general, for the children that are on base, are there any educational classes being provided for them? if not, are those children able to go to the cdcs on base to help with babysitting and educating them on american ways and what not? that s a great question. to answer the last part first, currently i m not aware of any of them using cdcs on base. what i would tell you there s an outpouring of support from the local areas, local communities, organizations, nongovernmental, that have shown up at each location to provide coloring
to be on these flights because we knew these evacuees were coming with no opportunity to prepare and to take things that you and i would prepare for an international flight. spending their own money, they purchased diapers and wipes and candy and balloons and other, coloring books and other things they knew the evacuees were going to need and refused to take any reimbursement from us, from the pilots for this. and i know this opportunity was personally poignant for you. why? it was for a couple of reasons. first of all, for superficial selfish reasons. ram stein air force was where i first learned to fly an airplane, where i soloed and got my pilot s license. so to be able to be at the peak of my career and come back and fly out of ramstein again was quite the thrill for me. but more importantly, i m the son of an immigrant in the united states. my father was a holocaust survivor. he was liberated from the concentration camp by patton s
those were all provided by the services. the services provided within the the recommendations for the department. they took a look at each location, and offered up those installations for approval by the department. we ll take one more. and then, we are going to let general close it out. hi, general vanherck. for the children that are on base, um, are there any educational classes being provided for them? if not, are those children able to go to the cdcs on base to help kind of with baby sitting and help kind of educating them on american ways and whatnot? that s that s a great question. so to answer the last part, first. currently, i m not aware of any of them using cdcs on base but what i would tell you, there is an outpouring of support in the local areas, local communities, organizations, nongovernmental, that have showed up at each location to provide coloring
that have showed up at each location to provide coloring books, books to read, educational opportunities, sports. at fort bliss when i was down there, the soldiers built soccer goals and set up soccer areas for them to practice and play soccer to keep them occupied. a great news story. general, i m going to turn it over to you for closing thoughts you might have. thanks, john. for everybody in the room and on the phone, it s a privilege to talk to you today and a privilege to be executing this mission for those that have helped us for a couple of decades. we continue to look forward to supporting them. we re prepared to do this as long as it takes to ensure that we get them settleded here back in the united states of america. i m really proud of the soldiers, sailors, amen and marines. i have coasties working here for
we re getting into a process. flights are leaving. reporter: volunteers pack toys, coloring books and snacks in to backpacks for the kids before the flight. doesn t have to be anything fancy or that makes noise. they will go from wailing to content and happy and smiling the rest of the time. it is unbelievable. reporter: on the tarmac, the flight arrives. delta s a-350 flagship plane. for the entire crew, an emotional experience. we saw some of the evacuees standing out by the hangar and i think that is really when it c clicked and we were like this is game time, these are people that we re bringing back to the united states to escape. reporter: hope that the normalcy of a commercial flight might provide some measure of comfort after the hasty evacuation. we did everything that we could to to make everyone comfortable and feel protected and quite frankly, loved. reporter: as the plane is readied for boarding, this man