With the bumbling and coldness of the Biden Administration on full display, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a mission on Wednesday night dubbed the “Pineapple Express” to gather and move hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety.
The group worked unofficially with the United States military and U.S. embassy to move people inside the wire of the U.S. military-controlled side of Hamid Karzai International Airport.
As of Thursday morning, the group said it had brought as many as 500 Afghan special operators, assets, and enablers and their families into the airport in Kabul overnight, handing them each over to the protective custody of the U.S. military.