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This 3 page paper discusses the problems in resupplying US troops at forward operating bases in Afghanistan, and suggests solutions. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Operating Bases. Conditions at the FOBs are dangerous and primitive. To take an example (picked at random), consider Forward Operating Base Rhino, which was established by the 15th Marine Expeditionary
Unit (MEU) (Forward operating base Rhino). The location of the base has not been officially disclosed, but its believed that the airstrip is "55 miles southwest of Kandahar" (Forward operating
base Rhino). During construction, the MEU (which comprises 2,200 personnel) landed with "a 30-day quota of supplies" (Forward operating base Rhino). Conditions were miserable: "Marines hunkered down in mortar
pits carved into the hard and rocky earth where they fought bitterly cold nights, warm days and thick dust storms that made it necessary to shovel out the pits every
morning" (Forward operating base Rhino). In 2001, the "largest concentration of U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan" was located here (Forward operating base Rhino). Conditions, obviously, are less than ideal. Many
of the supplies that are flown to Afghanistan come through the airfield at Kandahar, but the situation is so unstable and the area still so dangerous that "Army transporters had
few, if any, missions with their own assets [vehicles] outside the Kandahar Airfield perimeter" (Pike, 2005). The Army has "force protection concerns" because of the situation; obviously, it feels it
cannot send vehicles to resupply FBOs because its not safe for them to do so. The protection necessary is not available: "The Army did not use its own vehicles to
deliver supplies because adequate military police support was unavailable and inadequate force protection would put soldiers in unnecessary danger and the delivery of supplies at risk" (Pike, 2005). The answer
is to have local drivers deliver supplies to the FBOs, which is being done (Pike, 2005). Clearly, soldiers and Marines in the field cannot be expected to be at peak
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