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The 15th, we cleared the airfield and resumed flight operations within a matter of hours. with security reestablished by a force, operations continued without interruption until our final flights. by that time, we evacuated over 124,000 people from afghanistan. this was a difficult mission, made possible by the exceptional professionalism and valor of the joint force on the ground in afghanistan and across the entire world. i would specifically like to use this opportunity to thank the c-17 crew...

Arriving neo forces on august 16th we cleared the airfield. with security reestablished by a force comprising 5,784 u.s. troops and hundreds of coalition forces, operations continued without interruption until our final flights. by that time we evacuated over 124,000 people from afghanistan. this was a difficult mission made possible by the exceptional professionalism and value of the joint force on the ground in afghanistan and across the entire world. i would specifically like to use this oppo...

0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, pr...