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Integrated over new personnel into a new task force and completed mission retraining in less than 30 days. Retrieved Cancel Save. Fan Feed 1 List of active duty United States four-star officers. Universal Conquest Wiki. This deployment was part of the continued flow of ANA forces to western Afghanistan on a mission to restore the authority of the national government in southwestern Heart province and end a serious outbreak of factional fighting there.
Fighting had broken out at Shindand on 14 August when militia forces under the control of Herat Provincial Governor Ismail Khan were attacked by militia forces loyal to Amanullah Khan. Within hours of the initiation of the hostilities at Shindand, the government of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan and its Ministry of Defense had made the decision to deploy ANA forces to retake Shindand Airport and restore national government authority.
The purpose of the deployment was to return the occupied national property back to governmental control and ensure order is restored to the Shindand area. National government diplomatic efforts continue to halt the fighting and force the rival factions apart.
US aircraft began using the base in September in connection with the downfall of local Afghan strongman Ismail Khan, who was Herat province governor and who previously had controlled the base.
Iran expressed major objections to the US use of Shindand air base in western Afghanistan, fearing it is being used to conduct surveillance on Iran. But there will be operations into Herat to support humanitarian assistance. As of early it was unclear what would happen to Shindand. It had some runway damage and things like that that would have to repaired before there was any significant operation out of there.
Shindand has been very important in some of the medical evacuation of both Coalition forces, as well as Afghan citizens in the west. Shindand Airbase, built in , was originally a Soviet airbase. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the base reverted to Afghanistan control.
The base became the heart of the Afghan Air Force. Invading forces repeatedly bombed the base in in the quest to find al Quida and bin Laden. The Afghan government and coalition forces worked together to rebuild the runways and the airbase. In , the runway was again functional and able to support aircraft as large as the C Hercules transport. It is interesting to note that the first concrete paver was hijacked and held for ransom, and the equipment was eventually destroyed by the highjackers.
It took six months before another paver could be obtained and secretly flown in to Shindand to complete the project. The United States desperately needed the base to fly in and out to support the mission in Afghanistan and to train and establish an Afghan air force. Just as desperately, other forces did not want that to happen. Shindand has now tripled in size and become the second largest airfield in Afghanistan.
Afghan pilots are currently being trained in the United States, but infrastructure is continually growing at Shindand with the intent to begin training the pilots at Shindand Airbase.
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