But he’s working with nonprofit and logistics agencies, which plan to fly into Kabul from an undisclosed foreign location. Some commenters were skeptical it could be done-which Marcus acknowledges, given the scope of the project and the necessary secrecy around key details. The project involves a host of logistical challenges: landing safely on uncertain ground in a turbulent country, vetting the would-be evacuees (Marcus says most of them are personally known by volunteers), and successfully integrating them into foreign society. “With the incredible influx of money into this fund, we have expanded the original goal of making 2-3 flights into Kabul, to as many flights as the fund as the governments we are collaborating with will allow for,” Marcus posted to his Instagram account Wednesday night. In fact, Marcus has received so many donations that he recently had to expand his plans. withdrew troops from a nearly 20-year engagement. Within two days, Marcus has raised nearly $6 million for what may be the largest crowdfunded evacuation effort in history to get people out of Afghanistan, where the Taliban retook control after the U.S. Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland even shared it. The meme account FunnyIntrovert shared it to 2.7 million followers so did clothing brand chnge (2.5 million followers). After some brainstorming with his followers (and some former military people), Marcus started a GoFundMe to sponsor emergency evacuation flights, which quickly went viral.
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