[Disarmo] Il Pentagono avanza in CentrAfrica : [b-antinato] Digest Number 6391

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1. Pentagon Continues Military Operations In Central Africa
    Posted by: "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff at yahoo.com rwrozoff
    Date: Tue Dec 31, 2013 5:59 am ((PST))

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121417


U.S. Department of Defense
December 30, 2013


Airlift Operations Complete in Central African Republic
By Claudette Roulo
American Forces Press Service


WASHINGTON: A small U.S. Air Force support team and two C-17 Globemaster
III aircraft began airlift operations Dec. 12 in response to a French
request for airlift support. The U.S. airmen conducted 16 flights from
Burundi to the Central African Republic, Warren said, transporting 857
Burundi troops, 73 pallets of equipment and 18 Burundian military vehicles.

The Burundi troops -- a light infantry battalion -- are part of an
African Union-led international support mission intended to help prevent
the further spread of sectarian violence, Assistant Pentagon Press
Secretary Carl Woog said in a Dec. 9 statement.

Fewer than 10 Americans remain on the ground serving as liaisons with
the French military, Warren said.

Also, three of the four U.S. service members wounded Dec. 21 in South
Sudan have returned to the United States for treatment, Warren said. The
fourth remains in a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

All four service members are in stable condition, a Defense Department
spokesman said.

The service members were wounded when they attempted to evacuate
Americans from the town of Bor, South Sudan, according to a U.S. Africa
Command statement. They were hit by small-arms fire from unknown forces
when their three CV-22 Osprey aircraft attempted to land in Bor. Africom
is reviewing the incident, Warren said.

To date, more than 870 people have been evacuated from South Sudan on a
mix of military and charter aircraft, he said. The Defense Department
has flown three airlift missions with C-130 Hercules aircraft and one
mission with a C-12 Huron.

Army Gen. David M. Rodriguez, Africom’s commander, ordered a
platoon-sized element of Marines and a Marine Corps KC-130J Hercules
aircraft to Entebbe, Uganda, on Dec. 24 to serve as a contingency force,
Warren said. The Marines are part of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground
Task Force Crisis Response, based at Moron Air Base, Spain, and were
initially sent to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, before being moved to Uganda.

Rodriguez had earlier ordered elements of the East Africa Response Force
to be positioned in Juba, South Sudan, to augment security at the embassy.

“This is all exactly what you’d expect [given the security situation],”
Warren said. “It’s a combatant commander positioning forces in such a
way that he’s got options.”

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