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Published 12:18 3 Sept 2021 BST
Updated 12:18 3 Sept 2021 BST
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He told the newspaper: "I myself got 2 Para to rush out into the crowd and grab someone for me.
"It’s fully in line with what we get taught in the Army in terms of values, loyalty, respect for others, all that good stuff. We’re trained to help where we can.
"The situation was so chaotic and was so, frankly, mismanaged, that people would do whatever they could to get out."
General Sir Richard Barrons, who was head of the UK Joint Forces Command, said that many veterans had done the same thing. He said: "It’s an entirely reasonable thing to do. What none of us did was demand that anybody be on the first plane out. We simply made sure that they were registered in the system." As part of the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, more than 8,000 former Afghan staff and their families have been evacuated to the UK since August 13. In total, more than 15,000 people have been evacuated to the UK from Afghanistan but it is thought thousands more, who helped British forces over the last two decades, were left behind. Related links: British ex-soldier arrested by Taliban while trying to evacuate 400 Afghans Afghans who worked with British army will be able to remain in UK indefinitely Afghan refugees will have £39.63 a week to live on in the UKWhy Google wants to release 32,000,000 infected mosquitoes into the wild
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