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Because there is nowhere to receive them. >> i'll talk about just bottlenecks and i think i talked about that earlier. as we -- those that depart kabul and get to those staging bases within u com or cent com aor, we are ensuring that we place evacuees in one of the 14 locations to prevent a bottleneck sos that our increased through-put, increase that number that they're able to hold there, cent come and u com are continuing to coordinate together and with the joints staff in trans com of where to put those evacuees to allow flights to leave kabul. those on kabul, there is no constraint of allo...

>> the ability to continue through-put is very important. so as we look at airfield operations and the ability to get aircraft landed safely, immediately in and loaded and that drives a lot of what we would call time on ground to maximize the amount of evacuees we can get out. as you saw in the last day the numbers, that required as you just said aircraft on average to be ground less than an hour, which is very quick. i do know that trans com and commanders on the ground who are facilitating that synchronization are using and want to continue to use every capability possible to get people out ...

0 require constant coordination and deconfliction with the taliban. it is absolutely requiring us to keep these lines of communication with the taliban open that have checkpoints beyond the airport. we have seen this coordination has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow to continue. one of our commanders used helicopters to bring people in because of the crowd size. crowd size matters, too, and that's what the president was referring to. >> i have two questions. i would like to go back to the incident. can you be a little more specific and tell us if you can rule out the attackers ...

That's put together of who is on those aircraft and that decision is made of where that, you know, could go to. let's say some flights were going into qatar and taking some there so that afghans could be held there temporarily and then waiting for other flights to go -- what we're trying to do is keep the airflow that's in the theater, right, from having to go far, that continue to drop people off to allow other flights to take from qatar forward to, for instance, into dulles. so, you know, we -- depends on how many folks we have, what is it, a full slight of siv. is it other afghans? is it am...

Those aircraft, then a decision is made where to go. let's say some flights were going into cutter, so that afghans could then be held there, you know, temporarily, and then waiting for other flights to go. so we're trying to keep the air flow that's in the theatre from having to go far, continue to drop people off to allow other flights to take from cutter forward to, for instance, dulles. so it depends on how many folks we have, is it a full flight of siv, is it other afghans, is it american. so that is just extremely dynamic and with trans com, as those manifests are done, they make those d...