alike. connected, was able to get him to kandahar to kabul and he is now in texas and is able to speak about it and then a cia officer and a friend from college reach out and said, hey, i'm working with digital dunkirk and would you be interested in joining and when i got in, connected with a group of folks who had the ability to provide sensitive logistics and then it became an operation to support the state department. they were telling americans or anybody rather, citizens, lprs, whatever you happen to be, you need to be at this place at this time with this paperwork and chaos in a war zone, how do you fill out paperwork, how do you navigate and that's what we were helping with. nobody was trying to do any crazy cowboy operations. we were supporting the u.s. government and happy to do it. >> you were trying to rescue people. >> thanks so much. best of luck to you. i'm sure we'll be talking and thank you for your service as always. >> be sure to join me this sunday for a cnn special report. "america's longest war. what went wrong in afghanistan?" i sat down with most of america's commanding generals in