Posted by DoctorKz on 8/21/2021 10:48:00 PM (view original):
According to Sen Tillis there are 70k that need evacuating.
As of Friday, there were an estimated 10,000 US citizens, an estimated 10,000 Afghans who have been issued a special immigrant visa (SIV), 40,000 SIV-eligible Afghans, nearly 6,000 U.S. troops, and another 1,000 U.S. personnel at the Kabul airport. That’s nearly 70,000 people to evacuate over 10 days.
Update: Between 3 AM and 3 PM ET today, a total of approximately 10,900 people were evacuated from Kabul. 15 U.S. military flights carried approximately 6,660 evacuees, and 34 coalition flights carried 4,300 people.
Since August 14, the U.S. has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation of approximately 48,000 people. Since the end of July, we have re-located approximately 53,000 people.
Still no American casualties too.