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Bases and safe haven to the united states in the coming days and weeks. on that topic, here is a quick update on the the military instillations in our safe havens in cent com and u-com that are helping transition all of these flights. cent com locations including an air base steadily receive and process and transfer passengers to follow on locations in europe and the united states. today u-com will receive about 19 flights and approximately -- or approximately 5,000 passengers in germany and ita...

Im grateful for the support of the community surrounding each of our bases and the volunteers and others who are aiding in all of these efforts. together were honoring our commitment to our afghan partners and their families. i look forward to take your questions. thank you. >> thank you, general. start with lita. >> hi, general. i have one quick numbers question for you . can you tell us how many evacuees have gone through dulles? the governor said the numbers 14,000. we were told earlier it wa...

Bases, many of them left their country with very little and probably have different levels of means to start with like over here. how long is dod prepared to house and feed the refugees? >> were prepared to house and feed them as long as it takes to get them through the process and as long as the secretary approves that. i agree with you. theyre coming here, starting over with what they bring with them. weve been incredibly well-supported by the local communities, the nongovernmental organizatio...

Retrograde processes. they did have responsibility for those prisons and the bases at which the prisons were located and, of course, as the taliban advanced, we didnt see the level of resistance by the afghans to hold some territory. some bases. and unfortunately those were baifss that the afghans didnt hold. all of those responsibilities were turned over in accordance with the retrograde plan back from april. >> in essence the release of these prisoners like we saw in iraq when prisoners were r...

What percentage would you say of the people that are processing on to these bases are siv holders or applicants or are you also housing people who apply for refugee status? im trying to understand the breakdown of who is on the bases. secondly, theres reports from dulles that some of those some of the commercial flights have had to keep people on the tarmac up to 10 hours while screeners come on board. is that a dhs issue? are you aware that issue at dulles? >> >> thanks. on the siv numbers, i d...

Force locations, we are not directly involved with the paperwork process. i dont know the role in centcom of their forces. i refer you to general mckenzie on questions for any dod members forward. >> thank you. >> general, i wanted to ask why these particular bases were chosen for sivs. was it because of space reasons, hard and soft, buildings, or was it because of proximity to afghan communities in the area where some of them might end up being resettled? >> it was not necessarily for the speci...

Intelligence professionals who work where we dont have a military presence but in is an austere, hostile environment right now. i think the words the president used yesterday i think they also reflect where i think there is a serious failure here. so i firmly believe and i think most americans do based on polling president trumps decision to withdraw was correct and biden too, the issue we take here is with how the retrograde was conducted. so when we closed all of our remote bases and started c...

Billions of dollars of so mist kated american equipment. were in a worse place now than we were september 10th, 2001. >> but just to be clear on what youre expecting here, sounds like you would be expecting not something obviously coming from the forces that are at the airport or special forces that are there, youre expecting something that would be more like a drone strike? >> i think -- after august 31 thats really going to be the only capability thats left, right? we are literally leaving not...

Force locations, we are not directly involved with the paperwork process. i dont know the role in cent-com of any of their voices. id defer you to general mckenzie on questions for any dod members forward. >> megan. >> general vanherck, its megan meyers from military times. i wanted to ask why these particular bases were chosen for sivs? was it because of space reasons, hard and soft? you know, buildings. and -- or was it because of proximity to afghan communities in the area where some of them ...

Dont even think thats a new piece of information. my question remains the same which is how exactly are they set up to do that given the fall of the government on which they were relying for some of this? >> bob, how does the u.s. keep track of whatever terrorist developments are going on if afghanistan -- in afghanistan if is we dont have a presence even in the embassy, then we cant necessarily even have spies working for us, can we? >> no, you cant. it its too hard to do, jake. you know, you c...