They're non combatant evacuation. So they're NEOs. Right. Those are run by the State Department, facilitated by the Department of Defense. That's, that's doctrinal. Right. That's how it does. So The State Department did not want the optics of leaving the embassy and HKA Hamed Karzai International Airport leaving the capital of Kabul to fall back to Bagram. Didn't want the optics because it would look bad politically. So they gave up Bagram airfield, which has the capacity for life support for thousands of people. Two airfields. (41:38–41:52)
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