Who is Chris Donahue, the last American serviceman to leave Afghanistan?

Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army, became the last soldier leave Afghanistan, the Defense Ministry revealed Monday evening.

The Pentagon posted on its Twitter account a photograph of the soldier shortly before boarding a C-17, the military plane that took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Monday at 3:29 p.m. on the east coast of United States. (4:29 p.m. in Argentina) and with which the United States he ended the longest war in its history.

The 82nd Airborne Division is based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina and is part of the 18th Army Airborne Corps. This parachute division, According to his website, he fought in WWI and WWII, as well as the Gulf War (1990-1991).

“It was an incredibly difficult and pressurized mission full of multiple complexities, with threats active all the time. Our deployed troops courage, discipline and empathy», Indicates the tweet of the XVIII Airborne Corps of the Army.

It was also used during the American invasion of Panama (from December 20, 1989 to January 3, 1990) and the war in Iraq (2003-2011), among others.

On Monday, the head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Frank McKenzie, announced the completion of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the evacuation mission of US citizens, third country nationals and vulnerable Afghans.

The ambassador, also the last to leave

At a Pentagon press conference, in which he intervened via telematics, McKenzie explained that in the last US military plane The American ambassador was also on the road. The role of Ross Wilson.

In addition, he confirmed that since August 14, a day before the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, more than 79,000 civilians were evacuated on US military flights departing from Hamid Karzai International Airport, including 6,000 Americans.

With the flights of the international coalition, the figure rises to more than 123,000 evacuated civilians.