isabel has more from fort bragg, north carolina. reporter: i m standing inside the reception area, a football field away from the large military aircraft that are taking them overseas. right behind me, these sole ayer soldiers are waiting to be deployed. it can be a waiting game until they get the final order. it can be spent napping, reading, playing cards. when it is go-time, that focus, that training, it kicks in. in total, 2,000 soldiers will deploy from right here in fort bragg, 3,000 from the fort bragg are in germany. they are working on deploying the 82nd airborne. all together, 1700 soldiers from that division will go to poland. and inside of those large c-17 planes are not only soldiers, but also equipment and hum-vs and i m also learning these soldiers will conduct drills with their polish counterparts. that is according to a spokesman of the 82nd airborne who calls it routine.
question about is there going to be a period of self-reflection. not just for the biden administration and the choices they made when it comes to execution of this, bull for past presidents and really what we learned here, given the u.s. s leaving afghanistan with the taliban back in power, and more powerful than they were 20 years ago. that s what i was trying to get at with john kirby. he talked about the equipment nonoperable. the fact there is a picture of the taliban inspecting u.s. equipment 20 years after the u.s. went in to get rid of the taliban, in part, you know, it shows you what s happened over that time. also, that equipment isn t inoperable. they said they made sure of that. the aircraft, the hum-vs. there s a lot that isn t. to say they don t have anything is obviously they got a lot. also you have john kirby saying, when i asked, is it america s longest wharf? he said yes, right away. seth moulton and others say, look, you can t really say it s
new cell because he was having problems with his first cellie. he finds old graffiti in his new cell. adds insult to injury. talibans kick as. it purses me off because i have seen the worst and been through the worst, you know, myself. and by these people. sobel says his unit was attacked by taliban fighters on their way back to base from a nearby village. at the time we had three hum-vs, i happened to be in the lead hum-v for that mission i was driving and ended up hitting the road side bomb at the bridge. about half of the vehicle disintegrated. we were pinned down for about three, 3 1/2 hours, i want to say, and we had black hawk helicopter end up medivacing me out. i had retinal detachment, ear drums were blown.
they have not only ceded ground but their weapons. they now have u.s.-made armoured hum-vs. they are upping their gain by taking control of mosul. they won t stand their ground and the political institution in iraq aren t strong enough, haven t been strong enough to head all this off in the first place, which was a potential. they could have done it. jim, all those american lives lost in iraq, close to $2 trillion spent, all for naught. i spent so many weeks and months there after the invasion, 10 or 15 visits. you do have to wonder what our legacy is. the administration s priority has been getting out of iraq. the president s position was that it was a dumb war. in effect, to keep those troops there was throwing good money after bad as it were. the administration s critics
even with our hum vs and four-wheel drive, you still slip and you still have to be careful. it is pretty dangerous. the big trucks, they have to get momentum. a lot of times, they don t have enough running space to get going specially with the smaller vehicle. just hope that folks stay off the roads as much as they can. thanks a lot, captain. you can see as marcus pans around, the traffic trying to head into atlanta and still backed up. we are actually and here comes a georgia state patrol, heading down here as well. we re actually at the top of this hill right before cleveland avenue. this seems to be the problem area. this is where these big rigs are getting stuck. once they get past this point, the road opens up. the traffic is moving but it is just a matter of getting past this point and it looks like where we are is a quarter of a mile from the cleveland avenue exit. if you can see, there is no