The U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is up to 20% complete with a little less than four months left in the effort, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.
U.S. forces have shipped out approximately 115 C-17 loads of equipment out of the country, turned over more than 5,000 pieces of equipment to the Defense Logistics Agency to be destroyed, and officially handed over five facilities to the Afghan Ministry of Defense, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
"U.S. Central Command estimates that we have completed between 13-20% of the entire retrograde process," the Hill cited the weekly release as saying.
The U.S. military has been extracting itself from Afghanistan since May 1 after President Biden in April ordered all troops to be out of the country by Sept. 11. Prior to the order, roughly 2,500 service members were in Afghanistan.
