Afghan Army: Difference between revisions

* '''[[201st Corps (Afghanistan)|201st Corps]]''' ([[Kabul]]) – 1st Brigade was based at the [[Arg (Kabul)|Presidential Palace]]. 3rd Brigade, at Pol-e-Chakri, was to be a mechanised formation including M-113s<ref>DefendAmerica.mil, [http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/apr2005/a042805la2.html Afghan Army gets armored personnel carriers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216023829/http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/apr2005/a042805la2.html |date=2008-12-16 }}, 25 April 2005</ref> and Soviet-built main battle tanks (T-62s).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://austinbay.net/blog/?p=400 |title=Bagram-Kabul-Bagram |access-date=2008-03-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061019204847/http://austinbay.net/blog/?p=400 |archive-date=2006-10-19 }}. Austin Bay Blog. 21 June 2005</ref> In early 2008 LongWarJournal.org placed most of the 3rd Brigade at [[Jalalabad]], 2nd Brigade at Pol-e-Charkhi, and only a single kandak of 1st Brigade at the Presidential Palace.<ref>{{Cite web|author=C.J. Radin|title=Afghan National Security Forces Order of Battle (2008.01.06)|url=https://longwarjournal.org/multimedia/ANSF_OOBpage4_-_ANA_(2008.01.06_cjr).pdf|website=Long War Journal|access-date=2022-02-13}}</ref> The corps area of responsibility included Eastern Afghanistan, including Kabul, Logar, Kapisa, Konar, and Laghman provinces. This included Kabul as well as vital routes running north and south, and valleys leading from the Pakistani border into Afghanistan.

* '''[[203rd Corps (Afghanistan)|203rd Corps]]''' ([[Gardez]]) The original Gardez Regional Command was established on 23 September 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|title=News Archive|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/|access-date=2022-12-24|website=U.S. Department of Defense|language=en-US}}</ref> As of 2009, First Brigade, [[Khost]], Second Brigade, Forward Operating Base Rushmore, Sharana, [[Paktika Province]], Third Brigade, [[Ghazni]]. On 19 Oct 2006, as part of [[Operation Mountain Fury]], two ETTs ([[Embedded Training Teams]]) mentored and advised a [[122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30)|D30]] artillery section from Fourth Kandak, Second Brigade, 203rd Corps, to conduct the first artillery missions during combat operations with harassment and indirect fires.<ref>(First to Fire, "FA Journal", Jan/Feb 2007)</ref> Three days later, they successfully conducted counterfire (with assistance from a US Q-36 radar) that resulted in a reported ten enemy casualties.{{Citation needed|date=August 2007}} The corps is supported by the Gardez Regional Support Squadron of the AAF, equipped with 8 helicopters: 4 transport to support the corps' commando kandak, two attack, and two medical transport.<ref name="longwarjournalhelo">{{Cite web|url=https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/afghan_national_army.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100912090312/http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/afghan_national_army.php|url-status=dead|title=Afghan National Army Air Corps: February 2009 Update – FDD's Long War Journal|date=20 February 2009|archive-date=12 September 2010|website=www.longwarjournal.org}}</ref>

* '''[[207th Corps (Afghanistan)|207th Corps]]''' ([[Herat]]) – 1st Brigade at Herat, 2nd Brigade at [[Farah, Afghanistan|Farah]], and elements at [[Shindand Air Base|Shindand]] (including commandos).<ref>Anthony Cordesman, 'Winning in Afghanistan: Afghan Force Development,' [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]], 14 December 2006</ref> The corps was supported by the Herat Regional Support Squadron of the AAF, equipped with eight helicopters: four transport to support the corps' commando kandak, two attack, and two medical transport aircraft.<ref name="longwarjournalhelo" />

* '''[[209th Corps (Afghanistan)|209th Corps]]''' ([[Mazar-i-Sharif]]) – Worked closely with the German-led [[Regional Command North]], and had 1st Brigade at Mazar-i-Sharif and, it appears, a Second Brigade forming at [[Kunduz]]. An [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|Army Corps of Engineers]] solicitation for Kunduz headquarters facilities for the Second Brigade was issued in March 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|title=FBO.gov has moved|url=https://fbohome.sam.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=458c63fbfcbd7153893336cf7d4cac9d&tab=core&_cview=1&cck=1&au=&ck=|access-date=2022-12-24|website=fbohome.sam.gov}}</ref> The corps was supported by the Mazar-i-Sharif Regional Support Squadron of the AAF, equipped with eight helicopters: four transport to support the Corps' commando kandak, two attack, and two medical transport helicopters.<ref name="longwarjournalhelo" /> In October 2015, as a response to the fall of [[Kunduz]], reports came that a new division would be formed in the area.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marty |first=Franz J. |date=10 February 2016 |title= Isolated Outposts: Badakhshan sitrep |journal= Jane's Defence Weekly |volume=53 |issue=6 |issn=0265-3818 }}</ref>