TS:SCI::BLOODHOUND SETREP #1::TS::SCI - July 15th 2019

[Capt Hart]

From: [email protected]<Mark Stanton>

To: [email protected] <Clark Williams>

Subject: ::TS:SCI::BLOODHOUND SITREP #1::TS:SCI::
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Lieutenant Colonel Williams,

 

Here is the SITREP you requested. During the first week in country we have accomplished the following:

 

Established contact with embedded CIA Assets. Conducted reconnaissance on Taliban positions,  ISIS positions, and Northern Alliance positions. Determined the headquarters of the Northern Alliance. Established initial communications with Northern Alliance leadership. Stopped the sale of 150 IGLA launchers originating from RHINESTONE.

 

Of note - The Northern Alliance appears to have begun re-purposing ANA uniforms as a standard for their personnel. We have yet to complete a full dossier on their leadership and structure, however, we believe this to be a consequence of one Raashid Ibn-Ahmed who is a local, former, ANA commander. 

 

Three direct action missions were attempted.

The first stopped the aforementioned sale of IGLAs however RHINESTONE, we believe, escaped into Turkmenistan with a small bodyguard. The second resulted an entire MSOT becoming critically wounded and flown to Herat for medical treatment. This, we believe, was a result of improper movement in field and a significantly more organized, more trained, and greater numbered ISIS force than was initially anticipated. The final resulted in a mission failure due to what is believed to be bad intel on our part. As a consequence, BLOODSTONE appears to be either employing body doubles and/or more sophisticated covert methods of movement than intel has previously indicated.

 

The near catastrophic MSOT engagement could have been solved with air-support had it been available for tasking. Task Force Cobra will need a higher priority for aviation requests if we are to be effective given our current situation. Additionally, with one MSOT down for the immediate future we are under strength for the task we have been assigned. I would request that the remaining assets for Task Force Cobra be re-assigned to Operation Bloodhound to have our full operational capacity available. 

 

Finally, please put in a request for Army Engineers to be temporarily deployed to COP Endurance. I intend to establish a permanent forward position to secure our position more effectively. Please see my attachment for the outlines and additional information regarding that request.

 

Signed,
Mark Stanton

[MSgt Falconer]

Not great, not terrible.

 

Im glad someone other than me realize the need for air superiority when we are fighting a numerically superior enemy, on his home turf, in some of the worst terrain in the world, against a terrorist organization who has evaded the worlds most advanced military forces for decades, in a country literally nicknamed "The graveyard of empires"