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Troops at the airport, including the army s 16 air assault brigade. and there are smaller contingents from nato members including france, germany and turkey. nato says it has about 800 civilian contractors still on the ground most of them at the airport. so at what point do you start pulling them all out. let s bring in retired army brigadier general mark kimmitt. i m army brigadier general mark kimmitt. starting tot commander i m starting to think of this us commander on the ground who has to somehow over the next few days continue this remarkable pace that they ve set for bringing people out while at the same time shrinking its perimeter and getting the 6000 troops out of the country safely. i think the main thing that the commander is first focused on is getting as many as idus in out as safely as possible. everything else can wait for that is at once he has been given by the national command ....