planes involved anymore, defense echo terry lloyd austin is actively activating the civil air fleet, see r.a.f. that lets the department used commercial aircrafts to evacuate u.s. citizens and personnel, signal and other at risk individuals from afghanistan. now, the current activation plans call for 18 commercial aircrafts from these companies to pick up passengers from interim staging bases. they are not flying into the airport in kabul. military aircrafts will still handle those flights. now, using civilian aircraft to assist the military, might sound like a wild idea but actually, it s been around for decades. according to a report by the ran corporation, an executive order from president truman created the craf back in 1951 during the korean war. it was first used during the gulf war in 1990. let s begin tonight with mark davidson. he served as the deputy senior civilian representative for