Say what you will about the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan; the evacuation effort going on right now is seriously impressive. Fire up a flight tracker, and look at the non-stop parade of transport aircraft going in and out of Kabul. Then consider all of the support on the ground and in the air you don't see.

The planning, coordination, and execution required to do this is just tremendous. The people making it happen deserve our recognition and respect.

Pre-empting anyone who would jump in and say "well, it shouldn't have been necessary in the first place."

Acknowledged, but that's beside the point of my post.

Just looking at my flight tracking app, in the Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, or Afghanistan at this moment I count six C-17A, two KC-130, and two C130J. That's just what I get from clicking around the area; there are probably many others en route to or from Kabul.

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^ That should have been KC-135R; not KC-130.

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