Pentagon Steps Up Efforts To Evacuate Immediate Family Members Of U.S. Troops In Afghanistan

Evacuees board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 20.Taylor Crul / U.S. Air Force  

NBC News: Pentagon steps up efforts to evacuate families of U.S. troops from Afghanistan 

There are still several dozen immediate family members of U.S. service members in Afghanistan, say defense officials, including children and parents. 

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is stepping up efforts to get family members of U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, creating a database of the dozens who are trapped there. 

On Thursday, more than two months after the U.S. military withdrew completely from Afghanistan, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl issued a memo asking any U.S. military personnel and DOD civilians with immediate family members who need help leaving Afghanistan to email his office. 

The memo, obtained by NBC News, instructs service members and Defense Department civilians to email a specific address with the subject “immediate family member.” 

In addition to names, the emails will need to include passport, contact and other personal information about the family members so they can be added to the database.  

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WNU Editor: Setting up a database is not going to help these people to flee Afghanistan.

More pointedly. These efforts do not include the thousands of American allies and green card holders in Afghanistan who were promised that they would be taken care of, and who are now abandoned to their own fate in a country where many of them are being targeted by the Taliban..