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Planes landing, coming and going here at ramstein. this is one of the largest air bases in the world and it s an unusual sight here, seeing civilian aircraft, delta, united, atlas air landing here, mixed among the c-17s, c-130 transport aircraft, they re all part of the enormous operation. you can see a huge tent city also that houses as many as 17,000 afghan evacuees. this was a tent city built in a matter of days by u.s. soldiers but also their family members, spouses, and their children. they pitched in to bring together this huge evacuation effort. this base has been at capacity, i was told yesterday, by the man who runs it, brigadier general olson that the population of the base has tripled or quadrupled in just the last week or two. ....

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