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you ll see at the task force. task force eagle at ft. lee virginia stood up in july and has capacity for 1,750. today task force eagle at ft. lee supported 1,647 afghan special immigrant visa applicants and their families. half of whom have completed the process and have moved on with the support of the department of state, nongovernmental, intergovernmental organizations and volunteer organizations. task force bliss at ft. bliss, texas, currently has capacity of 5,000. and received first flights with vulnerable afghans on saturday, august 21st. the base supported to date 2,160 afghans. housed in a mix of hard and soft structures. final capacities expected to be at least 10,000. task force mccoy, wisconsin, currently has capacity of 10,000 and received first flights with at risk afghans on sunday, august 22nd.
0 kabul. and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm the vast majority of our staff and the immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the grounds of the karzai international airport. we re actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. they are our colleagues as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world simply could not function without locally employed staff. and we will continue to do everything we can to bring them to safety. with that, matt? . so before you came out here, your colleague had a number of questions to you. you can thank her that for later, some of which involved the some of the numbers you just went through. she gave some of those as well. but there are three things that i want to ask. can you be extremely brief in the answers. the
people in a timely fashion when th e working 24 hours a day to do the vetting necessary and reviews necessary to move people into the united states. now, i would remind you that there are a number of people, tens of thousands of people departing on afghanistan who are going to third countries. they only proceeded through serp steps of the immigrant visa process or the vetting process has not yet been completed. i can give you a bit more detail on the vetting process if that is helpful .
as possible to get those allies out. i think we all agree that not only are we backing out on a promise that we made, but we really encouraged not just the special immigrant visa applicants but the women, the girls that are getting an education, the women that are starting nonprofits, we encouraged them to stand up to folks like the taliban and now we re leaving them behind. first and foremost, let s say as long as we can to get them out with the understanding that the longer we do stay, the greater risk we re asking our military to make another sacrifice. overall in the long run, let s stop with the partisan finger pointing and look at the big picture. the country, the government, congress, many presidents have forgotten about this war for a long time. and that s why we re in the position that we are. so i hope that coming out of this, especially as we approach the 20th anniversary of the attack of 9/11, we can look at the decisions made since that day that allowed us to get to