Supplying U. Base security prior to summer is ill recorded but believed to consist primarily of base taxing. Consisting of Army and Air Force personnel and Afghan security contractors conducting base defense operations in western Afghanistan. On 27 Feb. Task Force Granite was responsible for base security. They provided Base Security Battalion Command, and carried out patrol and assessment missions, checkpoint control and flight line security for the base.
Further, a rotary-wing apron, about , square yards in size, storage facilities, solid waste management and wastewater treatment plants and an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance apron.
Shindand is now home to the 3rd Wing of the Afghan Air Force, which conducts flight training operations. Military Wiki Explore. Projects under construction include a training complex and living quarters for Afghan air force recruits and a regional training center for the Afghan national army. The headquarters for an Afghan special forces battalion and a commando brigade are also rising from the dirt, along with new work space and barracks for some 3, coalition personnel and contractors.
The repaved airstrip was extended to accommodate unmanned drones, fighter jets and transport planes as large as Cs. An apron added to the runway provides parking space for dozens of Apache, Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters.
The growth of the base would suggest the U. Speculation that U. Yet when talking with their Afghan counterparts, Hokaj and other U. The message of self-reliance, if a concession to the haziness of the U. The fallout after the last foreign army withdrew from the country remains visible on this base almost a quarter-century later. The Soviet military began building an airfield near the village of Shindand in and made heavy use of the base during a futile, decadelong siege of Afghanistan that ended in A few stone structures from the Soviet era still stand, among them an air traffic control tower, since converted into offices for U.
The battered husks of dozens of military aircraft litter the brown scrubland over an area the size of perhaps six or seven football fields. NATO Training Mission Afghanistan members are building the base to be the primary location for training of the Afghan air force, with one of the key groups providing training being the Italian air force.
Led by Col. Girolamo Ladicicoo, commander of the Italian air force advisory team with the th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group, the Italian air force in Shinand aims to help the AAF rebuild their identity as an air force, all the while advising, teaching and coaching them on how to independently operate an air force base.
Salvatore Sanarica, a logistic support advisor with th AEAG, said efforts by him and his countrymen are helping bring security to Afghanistan hopefully leading to an eventual withdrawal of enemy forces in the region. In a new 1. Assignments to Shindand Airbase are either for days, or for temporary duty of days. US military members are not allowed to drink alcoholic beverages. No one is allowed to live off of the base because it is not safe to do so.
Red Cross emergency communications are available in case of family illness or death. A post office is available and mail is free. Packages are sent via USPS but must be inspected before being mailed.
Personnel are subjected to routine urinalysis. Anytime personnel are outside of their living quarters they must be armed except when doing physical fitness training or showering.
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