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I heard a bit of audio on the radio - I believe it was Thursday - from the Afghanistan hearings. In the audio a legislator - the tone dictates that it was likely a Republican - asked Gen. McKenzie if there was a word for leaving enemy territory under fire. McKenzie replied that he did not know because he's never done it. The unnamed legislator closed the audio of his time by stating, to the effect, "I think you just did."

Top military officials on Tuesday testified that they assessed that the U.S. should maintain a presence of at least 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin admitting that their input was "received" by President Biden, despite Biden's claims to the contrary. Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and head of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday for a public hearing on the Biden administration's chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan. McKenzie and Milley both testified that they recommended maintaining a presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.