Those stranded include children, siblings, parents of U.S. service members, and above 100 extended family members.
The Pentagon does not currently have a 'good accounting' of how many family members of DOD civilians remain trapped in Afghanistan since the last US flight left Kabul airport at the end of August. NBC News reported.
"The federal government has turned their backs on them. If we abandon the family members of our servicemen and women in Afghanistan, they will certainly be slaughtered by the Taliban,"Texas Rep. Michael McCaul stated.
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Congress members have been pressing the Pentagon to help those stranded ever since the withdrawal fiasco, which saw the tragic deaths of 13 troops in a terror attack at Kabul airport.
In September, McCaul issued a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking them to assist in the escape efforts.
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"Over the past month, I have been contacted by hundreds of Texans who are desperately trying to get friends and family members safe out of the country,' he wrote. 'That includes the family members of several Texans who currently serve in the military."
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Pentagon officials have claimed that many service members whose families remain trapped were born in the region.
The Pentagon has constructed a database of those who can't get out of the Taliban-controlled country to launch a rescue mission.
In a Thursday memo, Secretary of Defense for Policy, Colin Kahl, asked military personnel and defense department civilians with immediate family members stuck in Afghanistan to contact the government and add their loved ones to the database.
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"Any US military personnel or DoD civilian employees with immediate family members still in Afghanistan who desire assistance departing should contact the OUSD(P) Afghan Referrals mailbox," he went on to state.
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Kahl instructed citizens to email a specific address with the subject 'immediate family member' and include their loved one's location, contact, personal information, and passport data in the body of the message. The defense department previously asserted that it was tracking cases of Americans stuck in Afghanistan.
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Yet, Kahl's memo demonstrated a 'more deliberate effort at the DOD level' to get military family members out.
“'There is an increased desire to make sure that as we make this push that we have every situation accounted for,” he wrote, adding “that the department is working to expand its reach.”
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