believe we brought out all the afghan military forces who partnered with us and their family members. i believe that has been accomplished. we need the airport to be operational. and we need the airport to be operational quickly for civilian traffic. so, we're going to do everything we can to help with that. let me give an example. one of the things we did not demilitarize as we left were those pieces of equipment that are necessary for airport operations such as fire trucks, some of the front-end loaders. we left that equipment. so that is available to allow that airport to get back and get operating as soon as possible. and it needs to get operating as soon as possible. >> general, today is august 30th, and the deadline had repeatedly been said that it was going to be august 31st. do you think that there may be some people who had some false hope that they had at least one more day before this happened? and can you explain the tactical decision as to why you have