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  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    🇺🇸🏃The US is urgently evacuating 1,500 soldiers from a base in Bahrain after Iran’s strikes, — NPR

    • We are talking about the Naval Support Activity Bahrain base, where the US 5th Fleet is based.

    • This is one of the key hubs of the US military presence in the Middle East.

    • The evacuated personnel began arriving in Norfolk, where local organizations had to urgently collect the most basic items for them — from hygiene products to clothing.

    • They were literally told: “Take everything you can in your backpack and you need to leave. They arrived without uniforms, with nothing at all,” — said a veteran organization.

    • Before the hostilities, there were about 8,000 people at the base in Bahrain.

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    • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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      8,000 at the start of the war, only 1,500 evacuating. That’s 6,500 unaccounted for. Which means they either:

      • Died
      • Were already evacuated (ether to the US, to other bases in the region or to hotels)