shot down the re-something on the order of 98,000 u.s. personnel in country, 98,000 u.s. troops. it was at a time where our troop presence was at its highest point, it s most sprawling point, we had more personnel there, and in more parts of afghanistan than we had in most parts of the war. that was ten years ago. today, the u.s. troop presence is at one of our smallest and most concentrated points, with 5000 or so u.s. troops concentrated basically exclusively at the airport in kabul, carrying a mission to evacuate americans, people affiliated with u.s. forces, afghan allies and others. and today, u.s. forces had their deadliest day of the afghanistan war since that devastating loss of those 38 men. today for most of the day the u.s. was associated with fee for most of the day, that told