Apparently, former MMA fighter and current GOP Representative Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) has reemerged and it was because he was on a trip to rescue Americans from Afghanistan.

According to Fox News:

For a period of time Tuesday night, neither House Republican leadership nor Oklahoma‘s delegation had information about Mullin’s status, but he has since posted an update on Instagram explaining why he went off the grid.

“I am heading home,” Mullin said in a Wednesday morning post. “Have we been helping get Americans out of Afghanistan, yes. Is the mission continuing, yes. Am I missing, no. Did I go dark for a little, yes because it wasn’t safe to be communicating.”

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According to a Washington Post report, Mullin had landed in Tajikistan en route to Afghanistan, and ran into trouble at the U.S. embassy there when trying to get a large sum of cash into Afghanistan. Mullin reportedly planned to hire a helicopter to enter Afghanistan and rescue five American citizens – a woman, and her four children, and he sought the ambassador’s help, the Washington Post reported. He reportedly sought the ambassador’s assistance in bypassing Tajikistan’s laws on cash limits, and allegedly threatened the ambassador and staff when they told him no.

It was the second time Mullin attempted to travel into Afghanistan, according to the newspaper. He traveled to Greece last week and asked permission to enter Afghanistan, but the Pentagon denied his request to visit Kabul, an administration official said.

Mullin’s communications director Meredith Blanford stated he was never in danger.