USTRANSCOM Supports Evacuation of 124K People in Historic Airlift

摘要

The final weeks of operations in Afghanistan were marked by an airlift operation the Commander of US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), GEN Stephen R. Lyons, USA, characterized as "herculean." The final hours were no less herculean. Under the cover of darkness, the last C-17 carried the acting US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ross Wilson, who had overseen clearance of hundreds of thousands of Afghans evacuated alongside American citizens, and the last US service member, MG Chris Donahue, USA, the Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division and commander of ground operations in Afghanistan.