Fmr Marine escapes Taliban takeover, says training Afghan soldiers to fight was worth it

Former Marine and State Department Contractor Steve Hutchings is back in the U.S. after fleeing Afghanistan days after the Taliban took control of the country. He joined 'Fox & Friends First' Thursday to share his story.

Hutchings says he and his colleagues waited for hours, as plane after plane landed, and took off without offering them a ride. "We saw our bird was coming in for us —  it wasn't," he said. "And then we saw another bird come in, ‘hey, this is for us!’ — and, it wasn't." Finally, he says, they were able to board a plane to Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base, one of two military bases in the country, located southwest of Doha. But not before spending the night at Kabul International Airport, surrounded by Taliban fighters, where he and his men "hung out on the flight line...listening to...machine-gun fire every once in a while to keep us...paying attention." Thousands of Americans still remain in Afghanistan since the Taliban took full control of the nation last weekend. According to the Wall Street Journal, senior U.S military officials in the region have warned the Taliban that there will be repercussions for interfering with the evacuation of U.S. citizens.