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The embassy personnel to continue to function with the consular services and all that. if we were to keep both bagram and the embassy going, that would be a significant number of military forces that would have exceeded what we had. and so a decision was made, proposal was made from centcom to collapse bagram and we estimated that the risk of going out of bagram was about the same. so going out of kaya was estimated to be the better tactical solution in accordance with the mission set that we were given and in accordance with getting the troops down to when 600, 700 number. >> okay. time for t...

Days earlier? >> who is that for? >> either one. >> you know, we make plans for a number of things and clearly as chairman pointed out, as we did detailed planning throughout, we recognize that there might be a point in time when you have to conduct a neo. so we positioned all the right forces in theater to be able to do that. we put forces on standby in the united states to support that. and of course, you know, we also did -- were in support of the state-led siv applicant process throughout. so in terms of, you know, doing everything that we could at the right time, i think that we have been...

Uncertainty? >> in terms of the aircraft that have been flown out that you mentioned earlier, i have received reports of a number of aircraft that were flown into uzbekistan. exactly how many, you know, i don't have firm numbers on. in terms of what we're doing about them currently, right now we're focused on the airfield and getting people out safely. and so we're going to take that issue up at a later date. and we'll continue to try to gain greater ability on the issue as well. >> and on your question of bagram, you know how big it is, securing bagram is a significant level of military effor...

For as long as we possibly can. we will continue to tdeconflict issues with the taliban and we will stay focused on securing the airfield. we cannot afford to either not defend that airfield or not have an airfield that is secure where we have hundreds or thousands of civilians that can access the airfield at will and put yoour forces at risk. >> but that doesn't answer the question. these people can't get into the airfield. >> we'll do everything we can to continue to try to deconflict and create passageways for them to get to the airfield. use h i don't have the capability to go out and exte...

Destroy some of that equipment to avoid it falling in to taliban's hands? >> thanks, bob. in terms of whether or not we intend to send forces outside of the airfield to collect up american citizens or afghans who are special immigrant visa applicants, the forces that we have are focused on security of the airfield. and you know how important that is and you know what happens if we lose the ability to provide that security. and so i don't want to detract from that. and we have to make sure that we cannot only secure the airfield but as the chairman said defend it as well. because there are a nu...