The embassy to help facilitate their departure from the country, to alSo help with the process of moving special Immigrant Visa Applicants out of the country, and to provide additional security at the airport. Again, we believe this is a prudent measure given the security spacing. 3,000s a lot of people, though. Can you give any better Sense Of, like, on a daytoday, what are they doing . Sounds like they must be that shall. That people, Sounds like they must be getting people to the airport and theyre take over security. I wouldnt go that far, courtney. The turkish force are still at the airport. Theyre in the lead of security at the airport. We already have Some Security Forces, united States Security forces at the airport, including Some Aviation Elements. These 3,000 would be going to bolster that presence and to make sure that the airport is secure enough to facilitate the movement of all these people over the next couple of weeks. Again, this is about prudent preparation, and we w
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Operation. this is a mission to facilitate the safe and orderly departure of additional personnel from the state department and to help accelerate to help the state department colleagues accelerate the processing of siv applicants. we are not classifying this as an n.e.o. at this time. there s a certain irony here that the drawdown was for 2,500 troops and you re sending an additional 3,000 to get out civilians and ramping it up super quick. on top of that, another 3,500 in kuwait. i mean, what is the irony here? and for people who might be asking literally, isn t this ironic that in order to get out 2,500 you re having to ramp up significantly? i don t see i don t share your view of the irony, lui. this is a temporary mission for
what i d say is what i d i have been saying for the last few days. they have ability, cape to believe the protect their territory and their people. they have the capacity to do that. what i think the afghan people want to see and what they deserve to see is the leadership and will to use those advantages to their benefit. thanks, everybody. got to go now. can you clarify 3,000 into the airport, 1,000 going to qatar and then going to siv? the 1,000 enablers will go qatar. i can t predict whether there will be onward movement. and then 3,000 then 3,000 to the airport in the next few days, and then there will be a reserve force out of bragg that will stage out of kuwait, and that s roughly 3,500 to 4,000.
Facilitation and logistics and movement, that kind of thing. yeah, mike. john. bring divide there. troops in kuwait. who s in charge of this? what s the chain of command? is there somebody in charge of the collective military effort? do they support to the embassy security officer? as we said, we have in kabul and has been replaced by general mckenzie to be the commander of u.s. forces afghanistan forward. ashley from jane s. yeah, hi, john. just to follow up on some of the other questions, in addition to any additional aircraft is there additional equipment these three battalions are going need? and then can you walk us through how you arrived at the need for 3,000 additional troops? i m not going to get into the