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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. >> theres a certain irony here that the drawdown was for 2,500 troops and youre 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, w...

>> what id say is what id 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 cant predict...

Facilitation and logistics and movement, that kind of thing. yeah, mike. >> john. >> bring divide there. troops in kuwait. whos in charge of this? whats 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 as we said, we have -- in kabul and has been replaced by general mckenzie to be the commander of u.s. forces afghanistan forward.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 janes. >> yeah, hi, john. just to follow up on some of the other que...

To -- >> were not a saying engineers. were talk about a small number of engineer, and its largely for electrical power. its to make sure we have power to do the processing of applicants. by engineers i didnt mean construction and that kind of thing. >> the bct going kuwait, thats roughly 3,000 to 3,500 people total? >> common infantry common brigade is 3,000 people. >> 3,000 going right away in the coming days, and then you have another 3,500 who will be there on stand by in case of security. im...