A military base in New Jersey will house evacuees from Afghanistan as the United States works on flying tens of thousands of Afghans from the Taliban-held country. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, about 39 miles northeast of Philadelphia, is the fourth base that is preparing to or already has accepted evacuees. The other three bases are Fort Lee in Virginia, Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, and Fort Bliss in New Mexico. The addition of the fourth comes as the U.S. military expands its goals in terms of how many evacuees can be housed on the bases. The top line number, previously 22,000, is now 25,000. “With the four bases, what our goal would be is to reach the ability—not necessarily the actual count—but the ability to build out to about 25,000 capacity,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington. “We aren’t there yet, it’s going to take days and weeks, I think …
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