as well as counter-terrorism operations elsewhere around the world. because the threat has metastasized outside of afghanistan to other places where we also have to maintain a focus and a degree of over the horizon counter-terrorism capability. let me go back over here in the back here. >> two questions. first, could you speak to any rescue ops that have happened since the attack. >> i don't think there has been any -- you mean by rotary? >> yeah. >> nothing additional. >> and the second question, which is probably more for the general. in the past days we've seen 89 to 94 flights leave kabul and somewhere between 125 and 216, could you explain why it fluctuates but the number of flights are relatively skedy. >> i think what you have seen, i'll break these into two bins. first as you look at the u.s. flights have stayed pretty steady, in the numbers. as other countries are coming in, they are evacuating certain