Bagram Airbase exit and turnover

[flogger]

Just a few thoughts.
The media is making it sound like we took off in the middle of the night and the Afghans were not notified (which isn't a bad idea), but I think they knew what was going on.

It sounds like we left a lot of weapons, vehicles and even some aircraft up for grabs. I don't get it.

It also sounds like we are turning our backs on many Afghan interpreters and translators who's future is bleak if they can't get out. I don't get that either.

Could be a real hotbed there in the next few weeks.

[Irving]

Sounds like pretty standard procedure to me so far.

[Jumpstart]

I want my tax dollars back.

[Sawin]

interesting to have not heard anything about what you're referring to, from anywhere else yet. What's going on?

[Sawin]

I've found a few sources now that I go looking for it - but none of them instill confidence in anything... go figure.

[Duman]

Link??

[Bailey Guns]

I read something on this on Fox News maybe a week or so ago. Didn't give a lot of detail that I recall. Some of the shit our gov't does just leaves me shaking my head.

[flogger]

https://nypost.com/2021/07/05/bagram...e-afghan-base/

My bet is the Afghan military will collapse within a week.

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture...s-idUSRTXE0GO8

[.455_Hunter]

Does anybody know what our troop strength had been over there recently?

A few thousand folks sequestered in the perimeter with minimal casualties who possess the ABILITY to respond and keep the the lid on things is not unreasonable compared to letting things degrade back into a free-for-all that unfortunately may need to be addressed again in the future with far more assets.

There is not an ideal solution, but at best a management of negatives.

[Eric P]

They needed better targets for practice...