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Three and a half months after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, roughly 34,000 Afghans are still living at seven military bases throughout the country.
'We now have we have fewer Afghans on military bases than ever before, and more now have processed out than we have waiting to get processed,' Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday.
The US airlifted about 82,000 Afghans out of Kabul in the days leading up to Aug. 30 as the Taliban encroached on the city. The 34,000 figure is down from six weeks ago on Oct. 26 when 53,150 evacuees were still living on military bases.
The seven military bases still participating in Operation Allies Welcome are: Fort Bliss in Texas (where an approximate 3,500 refugees are housed), Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey (11,000), Fort McCoy in Wisconsin (7,100), Camp Atterbury in Indiana (3,500), Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico (2,900), and Fort Pickett (5,100) and Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia (1,300).
'We're glad to see that a majority of those who came to the United States have now been resettled,' Kirby said.
