the ground, keep the air base, that was important in terms of moral support, rey-supply and other issues for the afghan military. once the president and this was underlying what we heard today in the hours of testimony, one the president capped troop numbers, the u.s. military was told they could have six to 70 tltd00 troops to guard the embassy, there was no possibility of keeping bagram open as retro-grade was occurring. general scott miller oversaw that, they pulled out of bagram and low and behold, 11 days later kabul fell and the u.s. military had to then execute what is known as neo, the noncombatant evacuation, secretary austin said there were three battalions placed in doha