Corey0372
AH fanatic
Going from not loosing a service member for 18months to the loss of life in our withdrawal I believe was at the very least a national embarrassment; but I wasn’t there.
After the Soleimani strike in Jan 2020, the CRAM systems at Jalalabad Airfield in Afghanistan were removed, and sent to bases in Iraq in anticipation of Iranian attacks on US positions there. A couple months later summer 2020 ISIS-K mortared the base twice (2days in a row) and attacked with small arms, it was an absolute miracle there wasn't a mass casualty event. If I remember correctly there was a total of like 28 mortar rounds that impacted the base. While they were mortaring the base, ISIS-K had another force move into Jalalabad City and conducted an assault on the prison holding a couple hundred ISIS-K members, most that escaped weren't recovered.
Jalalabad Airfield was already scheduled to be closed down, after the attack the timeline for closure was expedited by like 45-60 days.