you look at airfield. arcane thing called mog, move and move runway around and hkia had better facility than bagram for that. as the secretary noted, simple distance from where people are had to be a planning factor. we were under direction to go to 0 to secure the embassy, bagram was not an option under those circumstances. thank you. i would add, if i could, if you have assumption no afghan army, there is three big gates, quick reaction force and control rocket range and secure the road between kabul and bagram, never been able to get 124,000 people out of bagram, wouldn t have happened. center of gravity of neo was going to be hkia. the issues are clearly different at hkia than bagram. bagram was not a feasible option given number of troops, distance