Group continues to evacuate people from Afghanistan
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Task Force Argo features Department of Defense personnel, active duty service members and veterans, special operators and intelligence analysts, coming together with one goal in mind: “To bring home from Afghanistan every U.S. citizen and legal permanent resident, the immediate and extended family members of U.S. citizens and LPRs, and our Afghan allies and partners.”
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The organization has a series of safe houses within Afghanistan that they use to hide vulnerable people trying to escape, but the potential evacuees need proper documentation, which is checked at multiple stages during their evacuation, and they need someone who can vouch for them, former JSOC Ground Force Commander Jesse Jensen, a member of Task Force Argo, told the Washington Examiner in an interview.
They then shepherd the individuals onto buses, where their identities are checked again, before going to an airport, before eventually flying to a friendly neighboring country.
“Through personal relationships, we negotiated safe passage and safe harbor for these folks in a host nation,” he said.
The group, which doesn’t have “more than two people in any one single location,” has “coordinated everything digitally across secure encrypted chat rooms with no real command and control structure other than a group of volunteers that have come together to rescue folks in need,” Jensen added.
The evacuees they’ve rescued include an 80-year-old grandmother and a newborn who was only 3 days old at the time she got on an aircraft out of Afghanistan.
The group of about 150 volunteers still has 4,000 people on their backfill manifest, and they’re hoping the State Department will step in and take the lead, because, as Jensen noted, their efforts are “not sustainable.”
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The group is trying to do the job the military was unable to do under the time frame given by Biden for his hasty withdrawal. They are doing this while the Taliban is actively murdering people left behind.
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