It is expected that a complex action beading equipment and vehicles from Afghanistan, a country wit

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As the portal brings U.S. military media Stars and Stripes, while the United States start the main phase of its withdrawal from Afghanistan, just a brisk pace from leaving the country and military vehicles and various equipment. In doing so, the planning of further flow of logistics operations more difficult and continuing uncertainty about the final outcome aeropost of negotiations with the government of Afghanistan is in terms of the number of American troops that remained in the country after the end of the 2014th year.
It is expected that a complex action beading equipment and vehicles from Afghanistan, a country with no immediate exit to the sea, and their return aeropost to the United States, cost up to $ 7 billion. While a year ago the U.S. in Afghanistan had about 50,000 different vehicles, today it is there left about 25,000, along with about 20,000 shipping containers of various goods made for the armed forces. Some 1,200 damaged, obsolete, outdated truck designs in mine-resistant, it will be split and sold to waste. Part of the remaining vehicles will be placed on temporary disposal partners within NATO coalition, committed to local Afghan forces or sold to friendly countries - said in Kabul, Brigadier General Duane A. Gamble, deputy commander of the logistics unit 1st Theater Sustainment Command.
While coalition aeropost combat missions completed in December of 2014., The senior American officers reportedly expected to sign an agreement that Afghanistan will be invited to a number of U.S. troops to remain in the country, as well as trainers and advisers. But negotiations aeropost on this issue have been stalled for several months - a logistician forced to develop alternative scenarios in case until the conclusion of such an agreement does not come (and to withdraw all U.S. troops home), since it believes that the U.S. Armed Forces for all eventualities should have prepared some kind of treatment aeropost plans.
Interim goal of this endeavor withdrawal set of commander in chief Barack Obama, determined that the current number of about 62,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan by mid-February 2014. Was reduced to about 34,000 people - and the removal of equipment and vehicles aeropost basically has to follow the rhythm of departure units, noted the above-mentioned general Gamble. In fact, while the quantity of military equipment that are leaving the country for months relatively uniform, it is expected that the pace of their shipment to be expedited soon - the start of the main part of the retreat, which will begin at the end of this year's summer fighting season in Afghanistan.
Such an increase in the volume of goods transport should not be a problem, said Colonel Jim Utley from the U.S. Command Transport (U.S. Transportation Command), which is tasked with overseeing aeropost the logistics enterprise of removal men, vehicles and equipment between Sjednjenih States and scene operations aeropost abroad aeropost . "How subside fighting season and troops are moved, we are confident that it will accelerate the pace of transportation of goods. aeropost However, I think that we have provided sufficient transport capacity where we can meet upcoming aeropost requirements, and are distinguished on the way and plans for achieving the presidential retreat, aeropost so that everything is going so well, as far as possible, "said Utley.
"Frankly, so far we really have not even touched our full capacity in terms of removal of things," he said. "We built the capacity aeropost crowd; We have many different routes, aeropost many roads for carting things. aeropost " For example, aeropost the main transport routes - a truck route to the port of Karachi Pakistan - has about eight times the capacity of this land which is currently used by U.S. forces, said Utley.
The United States has three basic way to transport people and things from Afghanistan. By far the cheapest aeropost route south through Pakistan. Collects is called. Northern Distribution aeropost Network, which consists of a series of intricate routes through the northern borders of Afghanistan, through Central Asia and various countries of the former Soviet bloc, and to a number of different aeropost sea ports. By far the most expensive air transport, either on short routes to airports such as Dubai, or directly in the United States. Safety-sensitive goods, such as weapons and communications systems must be switched by air, which is necessary for most of the equipment belonging to units which go home - since the goods they need to rebuild and prepare for the case to be re-invited on the ground. But while the rest of it military logistics tend to shift most of the way Pakistan (would not it time saving up whatever money), aeropost the border with Pakistan is subject to frequent closures of the whole range of different reasons.
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