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Air Force's Northern activated the 

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Director of Mobility forces operations 

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sell to track and project air travel 

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for afghan guests landing at Dulles 

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airport in Virginia . I was Director of 

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Mobility Forces for Operation Allies . 

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Refuge and Operation Allies Welcome 

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bringing in 58,000 afghans to America 

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on military and commercial aircraft and 

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then redistributing them across America 

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to safe havens on the east coast using 

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bussing and safe havens in the west use 

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an aircraft . The Department of Defense 

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through US Northern Command in support 

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of the Department of Homeland Security 

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is providing transportation , temporary 

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housing , medical screening and general 

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support for more than 50,000 Afghan 

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guests at suitable facilities in 

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permanent or temporary structures as 

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quickly as possible . So as the people 

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landed in Dulles or in philadelphia , 

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we had to work closely with customs and 

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border patrol to understand the 

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challenges that they were going through 

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before they released those people to us . 

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And then we also had to look at the 

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safe haven capacities which were not 

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altogether built out yet and be 

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predictive in how we were going to move 

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people so that we didn't exceed camp 

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capacities . This initiative provides 

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our afghan guests essential support at 

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secure locations outside Afghanistan . 

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The first Air Force through the 

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Director of Mobility forces team truly 

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had to solve a momentous problem 

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through a whole of government effort 

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coordinated across multiple agencies in 

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order to move our afghan guests as 

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efficiently and effectively as possible . 

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Uh not only from their homeland but 

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also once they got here to their safe 

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havens to connect them with their 

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families as fast as we could . It was a , 

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it was just a large challenge that 

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nobody had really undertaken before . 

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We kind of had had an opportunity to 

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make a system better . And ultimately , 

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at the end of it , it led to people 

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being in a better situation than they 

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might have been without what we were 

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doing , reporting for Air Forces 

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Northern , I'm Michael dougherty .