How many fobs are in afghanistan

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.

Showers had just been installed with hot [water] Most of the troops used a tent with gym equipment for recreation A cook trailer provided a hot simple breakfast and supper. Snow blows through collapsed walls of wood huts that once housed military offices. As more Americans have been pushed out to Dahlke to advise front line units in the past year, U.

Tom Kopec, 26, a soldier in the 1st Cavalry Regiment, said in December. He has been fighting in Logar province for about 10 years and was posted at Shank in its prime. Back then, its population of U. Everything the Americans left requires power, he said, even bathroom door locks his troops have replaced with ordinary padlocks.

For just one of the big tents now rotting in Zombieland, the Americans would burn about 80 gallons of fuel a night, said Safi, who spent hours one January morning searching room to room in his headquarters for a working heater. Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan is 16 km from Kandahar City, in the southern side of the country. It is one of the largest airports of Afghanistan. Until , it was operated by the United States of America.

It was taken over under the NATO administration since then. For example, the nights of "surf 'n turf," which is slang for steak and seafood; the shrimp is delivered in a garbage bag. The shrimp is in addition to the four trays of steak and rice that are about as wide as a laptop computer and as thick as a stack of printer paper. Since the medevac company is split up between three different locations, they receive assistance from their counterparts in Kandahar Airfield or Dwyer to bring out needed supplies, parts and food via.

My husband and I are both deployed out here.