I don’t have a lot, but can share this-

A team member spoke with a leader we used to work with, Governor Arman who was the Baghdis Provincial Governor. He moved back to represent his hometown in Khost.

Since local T invaded his town, he is now under house arrest and will be killed if he goes outside. His village and the women of the village are being attacked. It is not a peaceful takeover at all.

On the military side, units from the 82nd were supposed to go to KIA as well. I heard last night that the BN or BDE was stood down bc Kabul fell and there wasn’t anywhere else for them to go. Maybe to Kuwait?

I think some element from the 101st is there now or on the way (I just heard units from FTCKY- that could be the 101st ABNs aviation assets, or it could also be 5th Group guys, but they wouldn’t obviously announce that).

Moving a large unit from Ft. Bragg or Ft. Campbell, stopping in Greenland or Germany, and onto AFG will take a full day or more, once they’re in the air. It probably took them a day to prep unit and personal gear, comms, etc., access ammo and additional mission supplies, and prep and load aircraft.

Units mentioned include:

2x USMC INF + 1x ARMY INF BNS

1000 ARMY to Qatar to review Visa applications

1x 82nd INF BCT ( brigade combat team — some 3,500 troops ) from Fort Bragg to Kuwait within next week, so that they can quickly deploy if necessary.

One thing I thought when reading above- they also need additional fortification materials. It’s been a long time since I was at KIA on the mil side, but it didn’t have a lot of facilities- everything was temporary (big soft side dome structures for computer centers, gym, DFacs, etc.)

I guess there was enough stand-off distance previously, around the outside perimeter, so that they didn’t have a ton of fortifications (airfield kind of sits in a bowl surrounded by a mountain range).

As aircraft come in, they’ll basically probably have to do a death spiral down into, and then later, taking off, up out of, the airspace directly over the airfield, bc US forces don’t control the land outside of the strip of the airfield. It’s a wide and long airfield, but Chinese rockets have been used at pretty significant distances across AFG previously (a few km distance). Even a shoulder fired rocket with heat capability could be launched pretty easily from the end of the runway at aircraft taking off.

If they bring in a lot more troops, without having the ability to actively patrol the outsides of the airfield, they need to bring in construction material- even for short term use. So I guess that means, the last guys, last out, then need to blow stuff up before they depart.

This whole thing is the most ass backwards op I’ve ever heard of. The US will be extremely lucky if this is pulled off without losing any additional aircraft or sustaining serious casualties.

If anyone has any questions, or can provide any additional info, etc. just @sk @reconhokie



[Post edited by reconhokie at 08/16/2021 8:30PM]