Smith of the U. Substantial construction funds have also been set aside by the U. Air Force to upgrade its air power capacity at Kandahar. Kandahar is just one of many sites currently being upgraded. Exact figures on the number of facilities being enlarged, improved, or hardened are unavailable but, according a spokesman for ISAF, the military plans to expand several more bases to accommodate the increase of troops as part of Afghan War commander Stanley McChrystal's surge strategy.
In addition, at least 12 more bases are slated to be built to help handle the 30, extra American troops and thousands of NATO forces beginning to arrive in the country. At the site of the future FOB in Shinwar, more than private construction contractors attended what was termed an "Afghan-Coalition contractors rodeo.
Army's Task Force Mountain Warrior, the event was designed "to give potential contractors a walkthrough of the area so they'll have a solid overview of the scope of work. In the weeks since the "rodeo," the U. Army has announced additional plans to upgrade facilities at other forward operating bases. At FOB Airborne, located near Kane-Ezzat in Wardak Province, for instance, the Army intends to put in reinforced concrete bunkers and blast protection barriers as well as lay concrete foundations for Re-Locatable Buildings prefabricated, trailer-like structures used for living and working quarters.
Recently, the U. The precise number of Afghan bases scattered throughout the country is unclear. Recent U. Army contracts for maintenance services provided to Afghan army and police bases, however, suggest that there are no fewer than such facilities that are, according to an ISAF spokesman, not counted among the coalition base inventory.
As opposed to America's fast-food-franchise-filled bases, Afghan ones are often decidedly more rustic affairs.
According to a detailed site assessment conducted by a local contractor for the Army Corps of Engineers and the Afghan government, the district headquarters consists of mud and stone buildings surrounded by a mud wall. The site even lacks a deep well for water. A trench fed by a nearby spring is the only convenient water source. The U. Tents with cots supplied the sleeping quarters… A medical, pharmacy and command post tent occupied the center of the COP, complete with a few computers with internet access and three primitive operating tables.
My husband and I are both deployed out here. Since we are located at different FOBs, we send each other care packages containing movies we watched with letters. It gives us something else to talk about out here other than work.
With every installation not the same, soldiers must bond together to take care of each other and accomplish the mission. When we go back home, I won't take it for granted. Photo Credit: U.
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