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very quickly. kandahar, can you record that the taliban have taken it? i can t. i m not going to do battlement assessments from the pentagon podium. let s go to the phones. a lot to get to. tara cuff. thanks for doing this. the infantry battalion, where are they coming from? the three infantry battalions are coming from inside the central command area of responsibility. i think i d rather leave it at that for now. they re already in theater. okay. thank you. is the intent that they will stay in qatar or will they be flying in to kabul to provide additional support if needed? as i mentioned to david, the plan is to get them to qatar. again, we were looking at regional sites for processing of siv applicants.
aircraft are likely now to be used to help take people out of afghanistan. to the side, another thousand troops will go to the gulf nation of qatar to help process afghans who need visas. another unit from the 82nd airborne will go into the region,probably 3,000 or more troops. they are a crisis response unit out of ft. bragg from the 82nd airborne. they will be close by and ready to help. all of this because the taliban in the last several days have made massive advances across afghanistan taking city after city. the pentagon clearly unsettled, the state department wanting to assure security for the diplomatic personnel it s trying
any progress on securing anything closer to afghanistan in terms of staging or basing for the over the horizon air strikes? secondly, how worrisome that a city like kandahar where u.s. air power has been focused in attempts to assist the afghan security forces are falling or have fallen to the taliban despite the additional u.s. support? i m sorry. i didn t get what the question was on your second question. sorry. over the last couple week or so, the u.s. we re told has focused some of its air strike capability on cities like harat, kandahar in an effort to bolster the efforts of afghan security forces there. how worrisome is it that those cities appear to have fallen in
horizon capabilities? and has there been any progress on securing anything closer to afghanistan in terms of staging or basing for the over the horizon air strikes? secondly, how worrisome is it that a city like kandahar, which where us air power has been focused in repatcent weeks in attempt to assist the afghan security forces have fallen to the taliban despite the u.s. support? i didn t get what the question was on your second one. sorry. over the last week or so the u.s., we re told, has focused some of its air strike capability on cities like kandahar in an effort to bolster the efforts of afghan security forces there. how worrisome is it that those cities appear to be falling or have fallen into taliban hands