Crowds gathered at the

airport.

When I got off the Black Hawk at Hamid Karzai Airport, two hours later is when people were falling off of C-17s because they were trying to hold onto the wheelbases to get out.

I was assigned to special projects, and so I was in a communication with a situation room at the White House and some other folks who were looking specifically to rescue women who had led NGOs because they would be most under threat by the Taliban.

And so I was out with a lieutenant colonel, special forces guy out at Abbey Gate, the one that was bombed, among other gates.

And we were in communication with people back in Washington.

We were then in communication with the women on the ground.

What was the biggest whiplash you experienced from one administration to the next?