coming across cleared by that process which i m comfortable with. the afghans coming from the middle east into our locations that we have stood up are being tested multiple times. they re getting tested at dulles as well and enroute they get tested. we re seeing so far, to date, when i was at fort mccoy on wednesday, only three out of more than 1,300 had tested positive. when i went to fort bliss that same day, one out of more than 1200 had tested positive for covid. i hope that helps. 1 out of 1200. jim. hi, general. it s jennifer griffin with fox news. i want to go back a little bit to numbers. what percentage would you say of people who are processing onto
task force. task force eagle at fort lee in virginia stoods up in july and has the capacity for 1,750. today task force eagle at fort lee has supported 1,647 afghan special immigrant applicants and their families. nearly laugh of whom have completed the process and moved on with the support of department of state, non-governmental operations and volunteer operations. task force bliss at fort bliss, texas has a capacity of 5,000. received first flights with vulnerable afghans on saturday, august 21st.
couple days to make the process as efficient an effective. when i say, dod worked with the process owner, dhs, to streamline this. specifically customs and border protection along with tsa who owns that process if you will. some of the challenges were being use of the proper vetting authorities, if you will, to ensure that we looked at the same ones and that they were coming across we knew exactly who was certifying that. and that is customs that was certifying across to the other side. what was happening is if the improper system was utilized, they were being flagged as red on the receiving end at dulles. that should give you comfort that we re not leaning towards conservative and pushing them out but ensuring verification. that led to the delays that you re talking about. when i took the brief this morning, we had no airplanes on the ramp waiting at dulles for
we re going to spun up here and begin that application for the process for a special immigrant status. the siv application process, the screen prague ses is a long process. what happens if at some point while somebody is on a military base they fail that screening? are they going back to afghanistan? what is the plan there? you are also taking questions? i would defer you to the department of state for that. that s really their area of expertise. we want to continue the support until we get through this process. if somebody fails a screening process is on a military facility? so let me go back. they went through the screening process before putting feet on
details on the attack at this point? anything about whether the marines noticed the attacker coming, anything about the firing of the shots, has any of that been kind of cleared up at this point? i don t have any additional details from what general mckenzie laid out yesterday. again, we ll do the forensics on this and try to learn as much as we can. and when we have some verifiable context to be able to talk to you about that, we ll do it. we re still digging into it. do you have any timing when you believe the aircraft with the remains will arrive at dover? i don t. and, as you might imagine, we re the services are in contact with the families, and they ll notify the families through the casualty assistance case officers, and i think i want to respect that process.