including 5,400 americans, have been evacuated from afghanistan. u.s. military troops have shown tremendous bravery and compassion as they put 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 stages and d.o.d. instillizations in cent com, 28,000 passengers await follow on movement from six active locations. in u-com, three active locations have more than 22,000 passengers and today 17 flights will transport about 3,700 passengers to both dulles international airport with approximately 11 flights and philadelphia international airport with six flights. in north com, there are nearly