Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby Holds a Press Briefing

MAJOR GENERAL HANK TAYLOR: Good morning. Good to see everybody and thanks for joining us on this great Saturday. Now, I'll give you a quick operational update and as well as answer your questions and, obviously, Mr. Kirby's here also so we look forward to that. Now, before I describe the situation in Kabul for the past 24 hours, I want to do a little bit -- take the ability to recap the past week and kind of present a holistic view of what's been accomplished. As you know, August 14th, we began this evacuation operation, which really is exactly one week ago today. Since then, we have rapidly deployed thousands of troops into Afghanistan. Our footprint continues today to stand at approximatel...