All this sounds pretty farfetched. And yet! And yet! The Pentagon just issued a tender for contractors to carry out aerial drops of supplies to forces in Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan. The solicitation doesnt include any information about what need there might be to air drop supplies into Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and the ten airfields which contractors would be expected to use were all in Afghanistan. I got in touch with U.S. Transportation Command, who issued the tender, and they referred me to Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Afghanistan. A spokesman for that group told The Bug Pit that The inclusion of various countries in a contract provides options for commanders, such as an emergency landing for example, but does not necessarily correspond to where the aircraft would fly on a routine basis and that to date, USFOR-A has not conducted a single air drop mission in Kyrgyzstan or Uzbekistan. But why would aircraft based in Afghanistan, carrying out missions in Afghanistan, need to make emergency landings in Uzbekistan, much less Kyrgyzstan, which doesnt even border Afghanistan?
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:48:48 +0000
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