(CNN)The US military withdrawal from Afghanistan is now underway with equipment being packed and shipped out, three defense officials tell CNN.Off on a tangent, but when Blackwater first started sucking up absurd amounts of government money to run the world for us with iron fists, in 2003, Erik Prince was... 34 years old.The Pentagon has also approved the deployment of hundreds of maritime, air and land forces to the region to ensure security for American and NATO forces as well as contractors as they withdraw, the officials said.