911th Airlift Wing Helping Evacuations

PITTSBURGH (WPXI) — Servicemembers from the Pittsburgh-based 911th Airlift Wing are in Afghanistan helping with the evacuation effort at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Our newspartners at Channel 11 spoke with the Commander of the 911th Col. John Robinson, who choked up at one point talking about seeing his planes and his people working to get people out. Robinson said his crews are providing security, mission support, operations and more ahead of President Joe Biden’s Monday deadline. He said when the 911th Airlift Wing got the call, they were ready. He said he can’t release how many planes and airmen from Pittsburgh are over there, but said the region is well represented.