Jul 26, 2009, post by Artur Nowak
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Have been out with British forces in the area of Sangin in northern Helmand Province. This area appears to be turning into the main effort of the current fight in Afghanistan, but this is unclear to me at the moment. I do know that air assets are heavy. During our mission yesterday, a B-1 could be seen overhead, though it was miles high. On the ground, this place is loaded with IEDs and there were many firefights during yesterday’s mission. My section of eight soldiers did not fire a single round; we did not come into direct contact, though bullets sometimes zipped overhead. Nearly all missions are conducted on foot and the soldiers like it that way. I am with the British battalion called 2 Rifles. The last mission I did with 2 Rifles was in Iraq, and they killed maybe 26-27 JAM members during that fight. Yesterday they only killed two Taliban (Predator actually made the shot), but the mission was well run, and morale here is very high. Everybody is ready to roll again and missions are near continuous. I’ll ask British commanders to let me stay, though that might not be necessary because there are so few helicopters. More likely I am stuck here. FOB Jackson is probably going to be my Hotel California, but that’s all good because these are great soldiers, in the thick of it, and I want to stay.
More broadly speaking, our forces are spread to the high winds across desolate stretches of Afghanistan, sometimes in tiny “bases” with as few as a half-dozen soldiers. Last December, I spent some time with a group of such soldiers in Zabul Province, but hardly wrote a word about them, yet. They were deep in wild country and it took two days for us to drive out to a paved road. Those soldiers had no access to Internet, and said that on one occasion they didn’t even get mail for three months.
Until December, I used a satellite antenna called a “Regional BGAN” (R-BGAN) HNS-9101 to transmit dispatches from remote areas. These small, portable systems are expensive; during a fifteen-day period last year, I spent almost exactly $5,000. (Prices based on bandwidth usage.)
During late 2008, when I saw the group of a half-dozen American soldiers, out there in the boondocks, two days from a road and once going three months without mail, I told Mrs. Frankie Mayo, who runs Operation AC. Frankie and Operation AC had sent loads of gear to Iraq, including air conditioners and generators. When I told Frankie about the isolated soldiers, she got to work with Hughes to send R-BGANs to Afghanistan.
Lucky for me, with the old R-BGAN no longer usable, Hughes, through Frankie, shipped a newer model, the Hughes 9201 BGAN Inmarsat Terminal. Many of this year’s dispatches will come through the 9201.
Without such a terminal, large numbers of Soldiers, Marines, Airmen and Sailors will be without regular communications for much or most of their time in Afghanistan. The infrastructure is Spartan to non-existent. Life here is tougher than it was in Iraq, and the fighting will be tougher still. Yes, there are the gigantic bases-as in Iraq-where everything is available, but little of the war is being fought from the larger bases.
Extended battlefield journalism from Afghanistan is relatively non-existent. Broadly speaking, folks at home will not know how their loved ones are doing unless they can communicate directly. To learn more about the effort to send satellite communications gear to troops downrange, please see Operation AC.
Jul 20, 2009, post by awatrobski
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Three dozen soldiers wearing body armor and carrying heavy packs are hiking into the rising sun amid mountainous terrain.
Their forward operating base (FOB) is barely perceptible in the distance from high up along a ridge, and the soldiers know it will be many hours before they return to a hot meal and the comfort of a cot.
In between will be a day like all others since they arrived: long marches, entering and exiting armored vehicles, firing rifles, scrambling through obstacle-laden villages and treacherous insurgent houses and wolfing down an MRE (meal ready to eat) in stolen moments at midday.
If this sounds like a typical day for a soldier in Southwest Asia, the Training and Exercise Management Office at Yuma Proving Ground has arranged similar conditions for soldiers in Arizona. Recently, the proving ground delivered a realistic environment in support of a critically important exercise aimed at developing the next generation of body armor.
The perfect fit
Since the beginning of American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan earlier this decade, YPG has played an instrumental role in reducing the incidence of the most horrific events experienced by soldiers in theater.
Fatalities from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have diminished with the mass fielding of the MRAP (mine-resistant ambush-protected) vehicle, which underwent extensive testing at the proving ground, as well as cutting-edge electronic counter-IED technology developed and tested at YPG.
Yet while the most horrific fatalities have been dramatically reduced, heavy body armor can impede the mobility of soldiers on the battlefield. Consequently, soldiers run the risk of being outmaneuvered by the enemy.
To counter this threat, in December 2008 the Defense Department issued a request for information to find a more lightweight armor system for American soldiers.
“Our goal is to field a lighter, more mobile body armor system to allow soldiers operating in high elevations increased mobility without lessening the amount of protection the armor provides,” said Jeremy Reed, a project officer from Fort Benning’s Maneuver Battle Lab who served two tours in Iraq.
Since the new armor system would be especially beneficial to soldiers deployed in the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan, evaluators needed a site that accurately simulated the topography encountered in Southeast Asia. Yuma Proving Ground’s extensive range space was a logical choice.
“We wanted a location that mimics the environment there and YPG meets all the requirements,” said Lt. Col. Robert Myles, product manager for soldier survivability at Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier of Fort Belvoir, Va.
PEO Soldier is an Army organization responsible for developing, acquiring and fielding virtually everything soldiers wear or carry. A key part of its mission is to constantly improve soldiers’ equipment to enhance their lethality, survivability and comfort.
Using volunteers from Fort Bragg’s 82nd Airborne Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade based in Vicenza, Italy, the Maneuver Battle Lab staged a two-week long exercise at YPG in May to evaluate personal armor systems. All troops that participated had previously been deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan.
Since the systems under test will likely be tested at YPG’s Tropic Regions Test Center (TRTC) at a future date, TRTC personnel provided support for the evaluation. Of the eight YPG data collectors who recorded test data, five are typically based at TRTC’s facility in Panama.
“We’re testing the compatibility, mobility and effectiveness of the equipment,” explained Maj. Michael Williams, branch chief of the Maneuver Battle Lab. “Our job is to test in conditions as close to combat as possible.”
Average day
Each day began with a conference at the FOB in which each soldier donned the armor that would be evaluated that day. The soldiers were organized into teams, each of which was assigned a different armor system each day.
For comparison purposes, one of those systems was the Improved Outer Tactical Vest currently in use in Iraq and Afghanistan. The soldiers carried the exact same rucksack every day, which data collectors weighed to confirm that the previous day’s specifications would be duplicated.
The soldiers then undertook a foot march into a nearby mountain range. The soldiers and several data collectors climbed uneven rocks up the slope, wound their way across the top of a ridge, then descended back to the valley below.
“The terrain is exactly like Afghanistan,” remarked Staff Sgt. Joshua Vaughn, who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq, as he marched up the mountain. “It even smells like Afghanistan.”
After data was collected, the soldiers proceeded by bus to a rigorous obstacle course outside the K9 Village, one of YPG’s simulated insurgent villages.
Each soldier tested the maneuverability of the body armor by climbing walls, negotiating a tire course, crawling through narrow tunnels and covered ditches and climbing up and down deceptively steep A-frame roofs and staircases.
They pulled themselves up through high windows, and navigated through the narrow, dark warren of a simulated insurgent house. Each soldier went through the course multiple times while carrying their rifles and occasionally throwing an inert grenade at a distant insurgent mannequin.
Even for these highly conditioned veterans of overseas combat, the course was physically challenging, but representative of the conditions encountered by ground forces in theater.
There was little time to rest, however, as the troops proceeded to a firing range, where they practiced combat maneuvers while still wearing the armor. Under the blazing hot sun, groups of soldiers took turns following a series of directions from a uniformed leader who barked instructions through a megaphone.
“On my command, you will run to the 10-meter line and engage your target,” he boomed through the megaphone. “Ready? Run!”
The participants charged the 10 meters and fired as the retractable targets moved upright, sending them falling to the ground amidst crackling reports and the acrid smell of gunpowder.
At the conclusion of this stage of the day’s activities, the soldiers returned to the FOB and ate a quick lunch of MREs, then spent the remainder of the afternoon rotating through a series of test stations.
The stations measured how quickly soldiers could enter and exit a series of common combat vehicles that were on site, the range of motion each soldier was capable of while wearing the armor, how easily the armor could be donned and doffed in a variety of positions while wearing a helmet. They also examined how quickly a simulated wounded soldier could be evacuated while wearing the armor.
When the day’s objectives were completed, the soldiers ate a hot meal in the FOB’s mess area and retired to their tents to rest up for another day of the same exercises.
Culmination
Over two weeks, testers collected quantitative data on the performance of each armor system, as well as more than 10,000 pages of feedback from the soldiers who participated in the exercise. The tested armor systems will next undergo ballistics testing at another facility.
The evaluations conducted at YPG could benefit deployed soldiers as early as this summer.
“YPG is a great place,” said Williams. “We couldn’t have asked for a better place or better people to work with.”
Jul 19, 2009, post by Artur Nowak
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The Army will soon be the largest fleet owner of both low-speed electric vehicles and hybrid-electric vehicles.
“That will have significant impact on our fuel consumption at our installations,” said Dr. Kevin T. Geiss, program director for energy and partnerships in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment.
Geiss said orders are in now for an additional 800 low-speed electric vehicles, formerly called “neighborhood electric vehicles” by the Army. The purchase is part of a plan to add 4,000 of the LSEVs to the Army over three years. The Army is getting an additional 502 hybrid vehicles for installations as well.
The vehicle purchases are part of a larger plan by the Army to focus on energy security, Geiss said. The plan also includes a solar project at Fort Irwin, Calif., and a geothermal project at Hawthorne, Nev. Geiss said the Army should know soon who the civilian developer will be for the Fort Irwin project, and that a memorandum of agreement with the Navy is now being finalized for the 30Mw geothermal project in Nevada.
“Our goal there is to by the end of the summer or early fall, have the request for proposal on the street and have the industry day to get the developer for that project,” Geiss said.
The Army’s plans for energy security include such things as electric and hybrid vehicles, micro-grids for more efficient power distribution, reductions in consumption of energy on installations, certification of tactical vehicles for alternative fuel use, and partnerships with industry to build power-production capacity.
Ensuring the Army has enough energy, when and where it needs it, is an important consideration when prosecuting both training missions and contingency operations overseas, Geiss said. And efforts to provide that energy, so the mission can continue uninterrupted, focus on five key components: surety, sufficiency, supply, sustainability and survivability.
“All of those things are important to us for energy security,” he said. He modified a Marine Corps motto, “beans, bullets and bandages,” to include “BTUs” or British thermal units — a unit for measuring energy.
“Think of the concept of beans, bullets and BTUs,” he said. “Most people are familiar with the beans and bullets — but beans, bullets and BTUs, I think, focuses us on the vital importance of energy for the Army and our missions.”
Right now, Geiss said, neither the Army nor the United States is in a place where it can claim it has energy security.
“I would say energy security is an end state,” he said. “If we were able to satisfy those five key requirements at our installations and our deployed operations, and with our weapons systems, then we would achieve a state of energy security. I don’t think that the nation is in an energy-secure state at this point.”
Inside the United States, the Army has to consider what happens if the civilian electric grid, on which it depends for its power needs, should go down. Plans for that event, and the ability to continue operations unimpeded are at the center of the Army’s energy security concerns in the United States.
Solutions could involve equipping every installation with its own power-generating capability — a natural gas power plant, for instance. But the cost for that, Geiss said, is prohibitive. Additionally, there are community, state and federal restrictions about what kinds of things can be done.
Instead, Geiss said, the solution involves looking at both power production and reducing energy consumption. Reduction involves identifying what power consumption on an installation is mission critical and also taking measures to be more efficient in energy use. The Army is conducting ongoing studies to determine the nature of energy use at its installations.
For reduction of energy use, the Army must now comply with the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, that says all new and remodeled facilities must be off fossil fuels by 2030. Additional legislation mandates a decrease in consumption of 3 percent a year for a period of 10 years. By 2015, Geiss said, the Army will have achieved a reduction of about 30 percent.
For generation of power on an installation, the Army will look to partner with industry to develop renewable energy production capability. Last year the Army established the Energy and Partnerships Office to facilitate those kinds of developments.
“The Army does not have the funds internally to accomplish all this,” Geiss said. “We can’t fund all the geothermal plants, all the wind farms, all the solar farms, to get us the power and energy that we need. It’s going to require a partnership with industry.”
Partnerships with industry mean looking for investors and the right locations around the country to develop projects that will benefit both the Army and the developer.
“We can generate large projects that will provide us with power, as well as an economic case for the developer being able to sell some of that power off to the grid,” Geiss said.
Ongoing Army energy projects include the solar projects at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and Fort Carson, Colo., and large-scale energy-management programs at Fort Hood, Texas. There is also the development of a 500-megawatt solar thermal plant at Fort Irwin, Calif.; a 30Mw geothermal plant at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nev.; and biomass-to-fuel demonstrations at six Army posts.
Overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, energy security is also important for contingency operations and for weapons systems. The Army needs continuous, uninterrupted power for its forward operating bases. Added to the mix in forward locations is the exponential increase in the cost of fuel.
While fuel prices rose at the pumps in the United States last year, the price for fuel used by forces in Iraq and Afghanistan rose as well. But there, the cost of the fuel itself is eclipsed by the cost of getting it to where it is needed.
“Last year, the big deal was the price of fuel,” Geiss said. “You go from $2 a gallon to $4 a gallon — so we are doubling our costs. But that’s really the tip of the iceberg as far as how much it really costs to get a gallon of fuel to an operating base or some other operating location.”
The “fully burdened” cost of fuel accounts for the cost of transporting it to where it is needed, Geiss said. And moving fuel by convoy or even airlift is expensive.
“In some places you have to fly it in by plane or by helicopter and drop off bladders of fuel,” he said. “Those costs can be an additional $20, $40 or even $200 a gallon. To complete that mission with weapons a system in a remote location in Afghanistan, for a week, you (might) need 1,000 gallons. For us to get that in there, it’s going to cost us maybe $200 a gallon. So that’s $200,000.”
In some places, Geiss said, analysts have estimated the fully burdened cost of fuel might even be as high as $1,000 per gallon.
Energy consumed by a combat vehicle may not even be for actual mobility of the vehicle, Geiss said, but instead to run the systems onboard the vehicle, including the communications equipment and the cooling systems to protect the electronics onboard.
One combat vehicle, Geiss said, operates an 800-horsepower power plant — of which only 200 horsepower are used for mobility. The rest is to power the vehicle’s subsystems.
“What is it cooling? Electronics and sensors, some for the engine,” Geiss said. “That’s how significant this other stuff is.”
In January, the Defense Science Board released a report titled “More Fight, Less Fuel,” that focused on the fully burdened cost of fuel. Addressing the issue means changing the way Soldiers operate at forward operating bases, and even the way weapons systems are designed.
Applying spray foam insulation to a tent can reduce energy costs related to climate control by as much as 50 percent. That was determined though research conducted at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Also at the NTC, the Army has demonstrated microgrid technology that can better manage and reduce energy consumption at forward deployed locations.
“At an FOB, electricity is generated by a generator,” Geiss said. “You fill it up and turn it on and they go 24/7 — whether you need all the power being generated or not.”
With micro-grid technology, generators are linked together and equipped with computer-controlled intelligence. The system is aware of the total power demand and can turn generators on or off to meet that demand.
“If you are turning the generator off instead of running it when you are not using all the power, it’s pretty simple,” he said. “The savings estimates are 25-40 percent. But you have to have the intelligent systems to do that.”
The culture of Soldiers themselves also has to change, Geiss said. He said Soldiers must realize that the price of fuel needed for survival at FOBs is paid not only in dollars, but in lives and mission resources to get it there.
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Jun 28, 2009, post by Marcin Frackiewicz
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WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 22 /Reuters/ — TS2 Satellite Technologies‘ network in Iraq and Afghanistan has over 15,000 military users of local broadband satellite connections.
“We were among the first telecommunications operators in the satellite technology in the territory of Iraq and Afghanistan, and as such we have enjoyed a successful cooperation with the U.S. Army for several years now,” says Marcin Frackiewicz, CEO of the TS2 Satellite Technologies.
TS2 Satellite Technologies offers two-way high-speed Internet access with no phone lines, no cable and no dial-up modem. It’s always on, available virtually anywhere, and affordable. The laptop or Wi-Fi network can receive Internet signal through a special satellite VSAT modem, which was usually set up in a building or tent when deployed.
The one VSAT access point provides the following services for soldiers:
– Broadband access to the Internet (WWW, E-mail, FTP etc.)
– Data transfer to many other users simultaneously
– Telephone connections including VoIP, IP phone
– Video-conference connections
Advantages of the system:
– Short set-up time
– Fast and easy upgrades
– Possibility of guaranteed CIR
– Transmission in almost all weather conditions
The communication among the bases is possible thanks to the simultaneous lease of bands on the Intelsat 10-02, Intelsat 901 and Eutelsat W6 satellites whose coverage enables configuration of connections between any place in Europe, Middle East and Southwest Asia.
TS2′s satellite military networks are located in Al Taqaddum Air Base, Bahgram AF, Balad Base, Baquba Airfield, Brassfield-Mora, Cob Adder, Cob Speicher, Camp Al Asad Airbase, Camp Bucca Basra City, Camp Buehring, Camp Charlie Basra, Camp Eggers, Camp Fallujah, Camp Grizzly, Camp Korean Village, Camp Liberty, Camp Mejid, Camp Ramadi, Camp Slayer, Camp Stryker, Camp Taji, Camp Victory, Fob Bagram, Fob Brassfield Mora, Fob Delta Al Kut, Fob Diamondback, Fob Falcon, Fob Garryowen, Fob Gardez, Fob Ghazni, Fob Kalagush, Fob Kandahar, Fob Lagman, Fob Mchenry, Fob Marez, Fob Normandy, Fob Rustamiyah, Fob Summerall, Fob Sykes, Fob Salerno, Fob Torkham, Fob Warhorse, Fob Warrior, Herat RTC, Jallahabad Air Base, Kabul Airport, Kabul Camp Eggers, Kandahar Air Base, Lsa Anaconda Balad, Q-West Base Complex and Tallil Ab Lsa Adder.
Especially for U.S. Military Personnel, Contracting Officers and DoD Contractors, TS2 delivers satellite equipment to most of all military addresses in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East, within maximum of 7 days.
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Jun 29, 2008, post by Marcin Frackiewicz
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TS 2 is the prime Internet Provider for US Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of all active customers are Polish and US Army soldiers, but TS 2 solutions have been implemented also for private companies and organizations. TS 2′ network in Iraq and Afghanistan has over 15 thousand military users of local broadband satellite connections.
TS 2 specializes in providing global satellite access services. They core business is broadband access to the Internet in areas with poor telecommunications infrastructure and mobile satellite phones communication. The main medium of used transmission is a two-way satellite transfer system, which provides good access to the satellite network in even the least accessible areas. It not only provides a broadband connection but also a wide range of additional data and voice services.
TS2’s satellite networks are available in Al Taqaddum Air Base, Bagram AF, Balad Base, Baquba Airfield, Brassfield-Mora, Cob Adder, Cob Speicher, Camp Al Asad Airbase, Camp Bucca Basra City, Camp Buehring, Camp Charlie Basra, Camp Eggers, Camp Fallujah, Camp Grizzly, Camp Korean Village, Camp Liberty, Camp Mejid, Camp Ramadi, Camp Slayer, Camp Stryker, Camp Taji, Camp Victory, Fob Bagram, Fob Brassfield Mora, Fob Delta Al Kut, Fob Diamondback, Fob Falcon, Fob Garryowen, Fob Gardez, Fob Ghazni, Fob Kalagush, Fob Kandahar, Fob Lagman, Fob Mchenry, Fob Marez, Fob Normandy, Fob Rustamiyah, Fob Summerall, Fob Sykes, Fob Salerno, Fob Torkham, Fob Warhorse, Fob Warrior, Herat RTC, Jallaabad Air Base, Kabul Airport, Kabul Camp Eggers, Kandahar Air Base, Lsa Anaconda Balad, Sather Air Base, Q-West Base Complex and Tallil Ab Lsa Adder. [2]
TS2 delivers telecommunication services also for Police Transition Teams in following locations: West Ramadi, Warrar, Tal-Aswad, Saqlawiyah / Saqlawiah, Rutbah, Rumanah, Ramadi District HQ, Qatanna, Mulaab, Kubaisa, Khaladiah, Karmah, Jazeera, Hit, Haqlaniyah, Hamdiyah, Habbaniyah, Forsan, Ferris, East Ramadi, Barwannah, Anah, Ameriayah and Al Qaim. [3]
Military customers in Iraq and Afghanistan
Before end of 2007 year, the TS 2 solutions have been implemented for e.g. US Marine Corps (USMC), US Army Corps of Engineers, Australian Defence Force (ADF), Command of Polish Navy, Special Military Formation GROM, 1st Special Commando Regiment, Polish National Police, Polish National Headquarters of the State Fire Services, Border Guard (Poland), World Bank Group, Lockheed Martin Information Technology, Halliburton Energy Services, KBR, General Dynamics Information Technology, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, US Naval Research Laboratory, ITT Corporation Aerospace / Communications Division, Technest Holdings / EOIR Technologies, North Eastern Aeronautical Company (Neany), EchoStorm Worldwide, Jorge Scientific Corporation, Erinys International, Aegis Iraq, American Heart of Poland and more others.
TS2′s military services are used by soldiers from 1 BCT 101 ABN DIV, 1-151 CAV HHT, 1-161st FA A-BTRY, 1-206 Field Artillery Battalion, 1-25 SBCT, 1-5 INF B Co, 1-61 CAV SQDN, 1-76 FA, 1/402nd AFSB STRYKER LNO, 1038th HCC, 10TH MTN DIV, 1710 Transpotation company, 184th Ordnance Battalion, 189 CSSB, 18th EN BDE, 1AD 2BCT / TF 1-35 AR, 1AD STB/Datapath, 1BCT, 1STB 1BCT 4ID, 1st BCT 101st Airborne Div., 1st Intel Bn P&A Co AFP, 1st PLT C Co 3-21 IN, 1st Space BDE / MNC-I, 2 BCT 1ID JSS H2, 2/25 DET 1 WPNS CO MAP 3, 2/25 Det 1 H&S Comm Plt, 201st Engineer Bn., 215th ASMC Phipps Clinic, 259 CSSB 155 ICTC, 25th Signal BN, 269 TH MP CO, 269th MP CO, 27th BCT, 3/10 MPCO, 3/4 WPNS CAAT-2, 324 NSC, 330th Military Police Detachment, 345th MI BN, 351st MP CO, 368th Finance DET 4, 370th En Co 54th En Bn, 3ACR, 3D RADIO BN, 401st AFSB MRAP, 41st Fires BDE, 455 EOG/ Spawar/ ATM, 4ID, 4SB 1BCT 4ID, 4th BAT. 101st AB, 4th BCT, 504th MP BN, 527th MP CO, 527th Military Police Company, 542nd SMC, 55th EN CO, 561 MT company, 589th BSB, 58th mp co 1st plt, 5th ANGLICO HQ Det/1st BDE, 5th EN BN, 5th Eng Bn, 6-17 CAV 1-1 ARB, 715th MP CO, 752nd OD CO, 772 Military Police Company, 776 Maintenance Co., 812th MP CO, 836th Engineer Company Sapper, 84th EN BN 643 EN CO, 84th Eng Bn 643rd En Bn, 87th Eng Co, 926th EN BDE, 937th Engineer Company, 97th Trans Det 3, A 2-20 FA, A CO 1-5 IN REGT, A TRP 1-152 CAV, A co. 4SB, A-4/320th, A-BRTY 2-44 ADA, A-CO 1-21 INF, A/2-211 AVIATION, A/CO 1/21, ACO TF 1/35 AR, ALPHA TROOP 1-152, Aco 1-153 INF, Alpha Company, B 4-320th FA, B Btry 3-4 AMD Battalion, B CO Task Force Odin, B CO. Bldg 3455/CH, B Co 1-6 IN, B Co 2-112th, B Co 2-4 GSAB, B Co. Bldg 3455 / CH, B Co. Bldg 3510 / CH, B Company 1-18 Infantry, B co 1-35AR, B co 2-6 IN, B co 563D ASB, B co. 404 ASB CAB 4ID, Bco 1-184 IN L, Bco 1-21, Bco. 2-4 GSAB CAB 4ID, Bco.404 ASB, Bravo Co. 1-184th, Bravo co. 3-159 ARB, C 1/158 fa bn, C BTRY 2-5 FA, C Btry 2-8 FA 1/25 SBCT, C Co 1-12 CAV 1CD, C Co 1-24 IN, C Co. 1/168th GSAB, C Co. 4-4 ARB, C co. 4-4 ARB CAB 4ID, C trp 1-303d Cav 81st hbct, C-Btry 1/158 FA, C/Trp 6-17 CAV, CAB 4ID, CAB 4th ID, CAFFT TAJI, CAV. 2nd PLATOON, CJTF-101 CJ3 Biometrics, CSTC-A CJ6 CSC, Co. B 146 ESB, D Co 2-27 IN/ 3rd PLT, D Co. 2-327 Inf., D. Co. 1/114th INF, D/123 AVN 6-17 CAV, Delta Company 1-151, Delta Company 1-151 Warlords, Delta Troop 7-17 CAV, E CO 3-1 AVN REGT, E Co. 1-161IN, E. CO 1-66 AR, E/FSC 1-22IN 1BCT 4ID, EOD Company 1/3, F Co. 2-10 AVN, GLS/L-3/Titan, HHB 1/6 FA, HHB 2-20 FA BN, HHC 1-24 IN, HHC 1-87 INF, HHC 2-7 CAV 4 BCT 1 CD, HHC 2/327 INF Olsen Medics, HHC 25th STB 25ID G2, HHC 3-103 AR, HHC 3/2 SCR LST, HHC 51st Signal Battalion, HHC 56 SBCT, HHC 5th Engineer Battalion, HHC 710 BSB 3BCT, HHC 783rd MP BN, HHC 84th Engineers Battalion, HHC 949 BSB, HHC BTB, HQs/ 561st MP Company, HSC 834TH ASB, JCCS-1, JTF Paladin / COIC, KAF NSE Force Protection 1 Platoon, KAIA ISAF Kabul Afghanistan, KBR B4 Services, KBR/LSI C7A McHenry, L-3 Communications Iraq, L3 Vertex Aerospace Iraq, L3/GSI, NSWLOGDET TQ US NAVY, PM BIOMETRICS FWD/BAT, TF 5-09 Canadian Forces, TF Centaur, TF Fighting, TF Phoenix, Task Force 1-6 S6, Task Force ODIN, Task Force Wings and USAF FET in FOB Salerno. [5]
TS2 will provide satellite services for the Marines new bases in Afghanistan in first months of 2009 year. The government contract concerns establishing and maintaining full communication in new locations for two years for all soldiers stationed there. The USA are going to transfer 4.5 thousand Marines from Iraq to Afghanistan as early as at the beginning of 2009.
Jun 01, 2008, post by Artur Nowak
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Airfields
Bagram Air base
Chagcharan
Chapman Airfield
Bamian / Bamiyan
Fayzabad / Faizabad
Herat
Jalalabad
Kabul International
Kandahar / Qandahar
Khowst
Mazar-e Sharif, AF
Meymanah / Maimana
Pul-i-Kandahar, AF
Rhino FOB
Shindand Air base
Taloqan / Talulqan
US Army Camps
Kabul Compound
Gardez Compound
Camp Albert
Camp Bagram
Camp Barber
Camp Black Horse
Camp Blackjack
Camp Bastion
Camp Bulldog
Camp Civilian
Camp Cunningham
Camp Dogan
Camp Eggers
Camp Gecko
Camp Gibraltar
Camp Hadrian
Camp Holland
Camp Harriman
Camp Invicta
Camp Julien
Camp Kabul
Camp Kandahar
Camp Kearney
Camp Lightning
Camp Leatherneck
Camp Marmal
Camp Morehead
Camp Nathan Smith
Camp Phoenix
Camp Rhino
Camp Salerno
Camp Souter
Camp Spann
Camp Tombstone
Camp Vianini
Camp Warehouse
Camp Wilson
Camp Wright
FOB’s
FOB ABAD
FOB Asadabad
FOB Bermel
FOB Blessing
FOB Bostick
FOB Cobra
FOB Delhi
FOB Dwyer
FOB Fenty
FOB Freia
FOB Gereshk
FOB Ghazni
FOB Indianhead
FOB Keating
FOB Lagman
FOB Lonestar
FOB Lwara
FOB Martello
FOB Maimaneh
FOB Mehtar Lam
FOB Mizan
FOB Naray
FOB Orgun-e
FOB Payne
FOB Qalat
FOB Rhino
FOB Ripley
FOB Salerno
FOB Scorpion
FOB Shank
FOB Sharana
FOB Sweeney
FOB Tillman
FOB Terrett
FOB Thunder
FOB Tiger
FOB Zormat
Fire Bases
Fire Base Anaconda
Fire Base Asadabad
Fire Base California
Fire Base Cobra Strike
Fire Base Cobra
Fire Base Gardez
Fire Base Lagman
Fire Base Maholic
Fire Base Nixon
Fire Base Orgun-E
Fire Base Oulet
Fire Base Phoenix
Fire Base Shkin
Fire Base Waza Khwa
Fire Base Wilderness
Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT)
PRT Asadabad – ISAF US
PRT Baglan – ISAF
PRT Bagram – ISAF US
PRT Bamian (Bamyan) ISAF NZ
PRT Chaghcharan – ISAF Lithuania
PRT Farah – ISAF US
PRT Feyzabad – ISAF Germany
PRT Gardez – ISAF US
PRT Ghazni – ISAFUS
PRT Herat – ISAF Italy
PRT Jalalabad – ISAF US
PRT Kabul
PRT Khandahar – ISAF Canada
PRT Khowst / Khost – ISAF US
PRT Konduz – ISAF Germany
PRT Lashkar-Gah – ISAF UK
PRT Mazar-E-Sharif – ISAF Sweden
PRT Mehtar Lam – ISAF US
PRT Meymaneh – ISAF Norway
PRT Nurestan – ISAF US
PRT Parwan – ROK/US
PRT Panjshir – ISAF US
PRT Pol-E-Khomri – ISAF Netherlands
PRT Qalat – ISAF US
PRT Qala-e-Naw – ISAF Spain
PRT Sharana – ISAF US
PRT Tarin Kowt – ISAF Netherlands/Australia
PRT Wardak – ISAF Turkey
