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The 82nd airborne division and my ground force commander there. and he was accompanied by ambassador ross wilson. the state and defense team were in fact the last people to step on the airplane. so what has happened over the last 12 or 18 hours is we first of all we were intent on maintaining the ability to bring out americans and other afghans as long as we could. so we kept that capability until just a few hours ago. and we were able to bring ut some people earlier in the day. although we had to cut it off some time before this operation began. but we were intent on maintaining that capabili...

The aircraft. i can tell you what the the taliban has done. they established a firm perimeter outside of the air field to prevent people from coming on the air field during our departure. we worked that with them for a number of days. they didn't have knowledge of our time of departure. we chose to keep that information restricted. they were actually helpful and useful to us as we closed down operations. >> i'm going to go to the phones. dan? >> thanks for calling. general, can you give us a deeper level of detail on what the last day looked like in terms of the number of flights, the number o...

Taliban has done. they established a firm perimeter outside of the airfield to prevent people from coming on the airfield during our departure and we've worked that with them for a number of days. they did not have direct knowledge at the time of departure. we chose to keep that information restricted. they were actually very helpful and useful to us as we closed down operations. >> i want to go to the phones. i haven't done that yet. dan? >> thanks for calling on me. general, can you give us, i guess, a deeper level of detail on what the last day looked like in terms of number of flights, num...

0 tonight before dumping rain in tennessee and ohio river valleys tomorrow. there's flash flooding and mudslides along the way. we wish those people well and a quick recovery in a very difficult situation. thanks nor being with us today for "the story," august 30, 2021. the "the story" continues tomorrow. see you back here. >> neil: thank you, martha, very much. we're on top of two storms gripping the world right now. certainly our part with the flooding and damage and winds and still more flooding and damage and winds to come from hurricane ida, now tropical storm ida. also following what's g...

  DOWNLOAD HI-RESLieutenant General LeRoy J. Manor is the chief of staff, Pacific Command, Camp Smith, Hawaii. General Manor is responsible to the commander in chief, Pacific for management of key military staff activities requiring coordinated Air Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps operations throughout the Pacific Command area. The Pacific Command is the United States’ largest unified command, encompassing some 100 million square miles from the West Coast of the Americas to the East Coast of Africa and from the Arctic to the Antarctic.  General Manor was born in Morrisonville, N.Y., in ...