Online Talk and Live Q&A with Air Commodore Emily Flynn

7pm BST Wednesday 27th September 2023

Air Commodore Emily Flynn, former station commander of RAF Brize Norton, the RAF’s Air Mobility Hub, shares the role the Station played in the evacuation from Kabul in August 2021 as part of the largest airlift since Berlin in 1948. Operation Pitting was implemented to evacuate 15,000 Afghan Nationals from Kabul, who were escaping to make a new life in the UK after the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.

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This talk will also be made available after the live event to be viewed on-demand at http://www.sofo.org.uk/onlinetalks