George Hoyt bombed Nazi Germany from his B-17, but it’s the humanitarian relief of Operation Vittles that he cherishes most. Joe Bracewell served up more “S.O.S.” as a line mess cook than he cares to remember. history, after Saigon.Bill Lafferty flew one of the first missions of the Berlin Airlift and didn’t even know it. Mark Milley has said it will be the second-largest civilian airlift operation in U.S.
forces lack the “capability” to pick up large numbers of Americans stranded in Kabul and bring them to the airport, and he said the U.S. One Afghan interpreter told the BBC he’d tried on three separate occasions to travel to the airport but turned back each time due to the danger to his family.ĭefense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that the U.S. But multiple news organizations have reported that Afghans, including some with documentation from the U.S., have been turned away and even beaten at Taliban checkpoints.
passport holders, and Americans have been urged to make their way to the airport, the State Department says. The Taliban have agreed to offer safe passage to U.S.
One is the difficulty of processing all of those who are at the airport.There are several snags in the airlift operation.
But that pledge does not apply to the tens of thousands of Afghans, many of whom worked with U.S.There are believed to be upward of 10,000 Americans still in the country. troops will remain until all Americans who wish to get out can, even if that’s after Aug. The airport remains secure and operational for now, but it’s unclear how long that will remain the case.Hank Taylor told reporters on Thursday, but it's only evacuated 7,000 people in total since Saturday - 2,000 of them in the previous 24 hours. has enough aircraft available to meet its goal of getting 5,000–9,000 people out of the country each day, Gen. is ramping up the airlift in Kabul but is still only using a fraction of its total capacity to evacuate Americans and Afghans.īreaking it down: The U.S.
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