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Michael Yon, a former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent was among the private citizens working with private networks and the military to rescue stranded Americans.  Yon said, "We had them out there waving their passport screaming, 'I'm American.'  People were turned away from the gate by our own Army."  Yon emailed to an Army major whose team had tried to coordinate the rescue before abandoning it.  "You guys left American citizens at the gate of the Kabul airport.  Three empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them. You and I talked on the phone. I told you where they were. Gave you their passport images. And my email and phone number. And you left them behind.  General Milley also knew. Great job saving yourselves. Probably get a lot of medals."<ref>https://justthenews.com/government/security/were-americans-people-screaming-outside-gates-kabul-airport-turned-away</ref><ref>https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2021-08/YonEmailToMajorRedacted.pdf</ref>

Michael Yon, a former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent was among the private citizens working with private networks and the military to rescue stranded Americans.  Yon said, "We had them out there waving their passport screaming, 'I'm American.'  People were turned away from the gate by our own Army."  Yon emailed to an Army major whose team had tried to coordinate the rescue before abandoning it.  "You guys left American citizens at the gate of the Kabul airport.  Three empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them. You and I talked on the phone. I told you where they were. Gave you their passport images. And my email and phone number. And you left them behind.  General Milley also knew. Great job saving yourselves. Probably get a lot of medals."<ref>https://justthenews.com/government/security/were-americans-people-screaming-outside-gates-kabul-airport-turned-away</ref><ref>https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2021-08/YonEmailToMajorRedacted.pdf</ref>

At least 24 students from a [[Califirnia]] school district and 16 parents had tickets to fly out but were not able to get to the airport.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-24/students-from-cajon-valley-school-district-stranded-in-afghanistan?utm_id=36108&sfmc_id=4509190</ref>  School district officials believe there could easily be a thousand more still stuck in the country after being left behind.<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/california-school-officials-there-may-easily-be-over-a-thousand-left-behind-in-afghanistan/</ref>

At least 24 students from a [[California]] school district and 16 parents had tickets to fly out but were not able to get to the airport.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-24/students-from-cajon-valley-school-district-stranded-in-afghanistan?utm_id=36108&sfmc_id=4509190</ref>  School district officials believe there could easily be a thousand more still stuck in the country after being left behind.<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/california-school-officials-there-may-easily-be-over-a-thousand-left-behind-in-afghanistan/</ref>

550 members and their families of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which runs the ''[[Voice of America]]'' and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, were abandoned.  A group trying to get VOA staffers and other vulnerable people out of Afghanistan ran into a wall because the evacuees were unable to get into the airport. The group, which consists of humanitarian aid workers and former embassy, and [[U.S. Agency for International Development]] (USAID) officials, had two charter flights that can carry 340 people each.<ref>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/08/26/the-journalists-for-u-s-media-getting-left-behind-in-afghanistan/</ref>  VOA reported on a 25-year-old [[pregnant]] American woman in hiding who was denied entrance to the airport despite State Department and White House assurances it was not happening.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/wow-pregnant-american-trapped-in-kabul-talks-to-voa-from-hiding-after-taliban-shot-at-her-in-view-of-u-s-troops/</ref>

550 members and their families of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which runs the ''[[Voice of America]]'' and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, were abandoned.  A group trying to get VOA staffers and other vulnerable people out of Afghanistan ran into a wall because the evacuees were unable to get into the airport. The group, which consists of humanitarian aid workers and former embassy, and [[U.S. Agency for International Development]] (USAID) officials, had two charter flights that can carry 340 people each.<ref>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/08/26/the-journalists-for-u-s-media-getting-left-behind-in-afghanistan/</ref>  VOA reported on a 25-year-old [[pregnant]] American woman in hiding who was denied entrance to the airport despite State Department and White House assurances it was not happening.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/wow-pregnant-american-trapped-in-kabul-talks-to-voa-from-hiding-after-taliban-shot-at-her-in-view-of-u-s-troops/</ref>