Bagram Airfield Summary

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1History
1.121st century
2Camp Vance
3Parwan Detention Facility

4Incidents and accidents
5See also
6References
7External links
Bagram Airfield
Bagram Airfield-BAF, also known as Bagram Air Base[3] (IATA: OAI, ICAO:
Bagram Airfield
OAIX), is located 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) southeast of Charikar in the Parwan Province of
Afghanistan. It is under the Afghan Ministry of Defense. Sitting on the site of the ancient
Bagram at an elevation of 4,895 feet (1,492 m) above sea level, the air base has two
concrete runways.[2] The main one measures 11,819 by 151 feet (3,602 m × 46 m), capable
of handling large military aircraft, including the Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy. The second
runway measures 9,687 by 85 feet (2,953 m × 26 m).[1] The air base also has at least three
large hangars, a control tower, numerous support buildings, and various housing areas.
There are also more than 13 hectares (32 acres) of ramp space and five aircraft dispersal
areas, with over 110 revetments.
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Bagram Air Base was formerly the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan,[4] staffed by
the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing of the U.S. Air Force, along with rotating units of the
U.S. and coalition forces. It was expanded and modernized by the Americans.[5] There is
also a hospital with 50 beds, three operating theatres and a modern dental clinic.[6] Kabul
International Airport is located approximately 40 km (25 mi) south of Bagram, connected
by two separate roads.
On 15 August 2021, the entire base fell to Taliban rebel forces after the NATO-trained
Afghan Army had surrendered.[7][8] All prisoners at the Parwan Detention Facility were
released.[6][9] The International Committee of the Red Cross had revealed that since A USAF F-16 Fighting Falcon taking off at
August 2009 it was informed about inmates of a second prison where detainees are held Bagram Airfield in January 2015
in isolation and without access to the International Red Cross that is usually guaranteed IATA: OAI · ICAO: OAIX
to all prisoners; the existence of a second prison was denied by U.S. authorities.[10]
Summary
Airport type Military
History
Owner Ministry of Defense
Bagram airfield was originally built during the early Operator Afghan Armed Forces
period of the Cold War, at a time when the United Location Bagram, Afghanistan
States and the neighboring Soviet Union were
spreading political influence in Afghanistan. While the Elevation AMSL 4,895 ft / 1,492 m
United States was focusing on Afghanistan, the Coordinates 34°56′46″N 069°15′54″E
Soviets were strengthening ties with Fidel Castro's
Map
regime in Cuba. In 1959, a year after Afghan Prime
Minister Daud Khan toured the United States, U.S.
This image shows aircraft of the President Dwight Eisenhower landed at Bagram
Afghan Air Force during U.S. Airfield where he was greeted by King Zahir Shah and
President Eisenhower's visit in Daud Khan among other Afghan officials.[11][12] OAI
1959.
The original runway, 10,000-foot long (3,000 m), was
built in 1976. The airport at Bagram was maintained
by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) with some support from the United States. During the
1980s Soviet–Afghan War, it played a key role, serving as a base of operations for troops
and supplies. Bagram was also the initial staging point for the invading Soviet forces at Location of airport in Afghanistan
the beginning of the conflict, with elements of two Soviet Airborne Troops' divisions being
Runways
deployed there. Aircraft based at Bagram, including the 368th Assault Aviation Regiment
Direction Length Surface
m ft
flying Su-25s, provided close air support for Soviet and Afghan troops in the field. The 03R/21L 3,724 12,218 Concrete
368th Assault Aviation Regiment was stationed at Bagram from October 1986 to 03L/21R 2,953 9,688 Concrete
November 1987.[13]
Source: skyvector.com;[1] Google Earth[2]
Some of the Soviet land forces based at Bagram included the 108th Motor Rifle Division
and the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment of the 105th Guards Airborne Division.
Following the withdrawal of the Soviet forces and the rise of the Western-funded and Pakistani-
trained[14] mujahideen rebels, Afghanistan plunged into civil war. Many of its support buildings and
base housing built by the Soviet Armed Forces during their occupation were destroyed by years of
fighting between various warring Afghan factions after the Soviets left.
Control of the base was contested from 1999 onward between the Northern Alliance and Taliban,
often with each controlling territory on opposite ends of the airfield. Taliban forces were consistently
within artillery and mortar range of the field, denying full possession of the strategic facility to the Soviet MiG-21 fighter jets at
Northern Alliance. Press reports indicated that at times a Northern Alliance general was using the Bagram, 1980
bombed-out control tower as an observation post and as a location to brief journalists, with his
headquarters nearby.
Reports also indicated that Northern Alliance rocket attacks on Kabul had been staged from Bagram, possibly with Russian-made
FROG-7 Rockets. In 2000, the Taliban took over control and forced the Northern Alliance to retreat further to the north.
21st century
During the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, the base was secured by a team from the United
Kingdom's Special Boat Service. By early December 2001 troops from the 10th Mountain Division
shared the base with Special Operations Command officers from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida,
Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, and a small communications team
consisting of personnel from the 269th Signal Company, 11th Signal Brigade out of Fort Huachuca.
The British force consisted of B and C Companies from 40 Commando, Royal Marines. As of mid-
December 2001 more than 300 U.S. troops, mainly with the 10th Mountain Division, were providing
force protection at Bagram. The troops patrolled the base perimeter, guarded the front gate, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald
cleared the runway of explosive ordnance. As of early January 2002, the number of 10th Mountain Rumsfeld speaks to U.S. troops at
Division troops had grown to about 400 soldiers. Bagram on 16 December 2001.
There were numerous dining facilities at Bagram Airfield. Troops and civilians had various dining
options that included Pizza Hut, Subway, an Afghan restaurant, as well as Green Beans coffee shops.
In late January 2002, there were somewhere around 4,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, of which about 3,000 were at Kandahar
International Airport, and about 500 were stationed at Bagram. The runway began to be repaired by US, Italian, and Polish military
personnel. By mid-June 2002, Bagram Airfield was serving as home to more than 7,000 U.S. and other armed services. Numerous tent
areas housed the troops based there, including one named Viper City. It was reported that "Bagram came under daily rocket attack" in
2002 even though most of these attacks went unreported by the press.[15][16] Landmines were also a serious concern in and around
Bagram Airfield.[17]
By late 2003 B-huts, 18-by-36-foot (5.5 by 11.0 m) structures made of plywood designed to hold eight troops,[18] were replacing the
standard shelter option for troops. There were several hundred, with plans to build close to 800 of them. The plans were to have nearly
1,200 structures built by 2006, but completion of the project was expected much earlier; possibly by July 2004. The increased
construction fell under U.S. Central Command standards of temporary housing and allowed for the building of B-huts on base, not to
show permanence, but to raise the standard for troops serving here. The wooden structures had no concrete foundation and thus were
not considered permanent housing, just an upgrade from the tents, the only option Bagram personnel and troops had seen previously.
The small homes offered troops protection from environmental conditions including wind, snow, sand and cold. During 2005, a USO
facility was built and named after former pro football player and United States Army Ranger, Pat Tillman.
A second runway, 3,500 metres (11,500 ft) long,[19] was built and completed by the United States in
late 2006, at a cost of US$68 million. This new runway is 497 metres (1,631 ft) longer than the
previous one and 280 millimetres (11 in) thicker, giving it the ability to land larger aircraft, such as
the C-5 Galaxy, C-17 Globemaster III, Il-76, An-124, An-225 or the Boeing 747 (which is used by
civilian cargo airlines).[20]
By 2007 Bagram had become the size of a small town, with traffic jams and many commercial shops
selling goods from clothes to food. The base itself is situated high up in the mountains and sees
The 43rd U.S. President George W.
temperatures drop to −29 °C (−20 °F). Due to the height and snowstorms commercial aircraft have
Bush and wife Laura Bush arrive at difficulty landing there, and older aircraft often rely on very experienced crews in order to be able to
Bagram Airfield in Air Force One on land there. The base was able to house 10,000 troops in 2009.[3]
1 March 2006.
The 2007 Bagram Airfield bombing was a suicide attack that killed up to 23 people and injured 20
more, at a time when Dick Cheney, then Vice-President of the United States, was visiting
Afghanistan. The attack occurred inside one of the security gates surrounding the heavily guarded base. Yousef Ahmadi, one of the
Taliban spokesmen, claimed responsibility for the attack and said that Cheney was the intended target. Another Taliban spokesman
later confirmed that Osama Bin Laden planned the attack, and reiterated that Cheney was the intended target. This claim is supported
by the relatively limited number of large suicide bombings carried out in Afghanistan, combined with the intensity of this particular
attack, and the fact that Cheney was at the base. Cheney was unharmed from the attack, however. Among the dead were a U.S. soldier, a
U.S. contractor, a South Korean soldier, and 20 Afghan workers at the base.
In 2008, several U.S. service members were accused of accepting bribes for the award of building
contracts on Bagram.[21][22][23][24] Four of the Afghans have also faced charges, while three of them
have been held as material witnesses. The GI's are reported to have received over 100,000 dollars in
bribes.
In March 2009, a car bomb exploded outside the gates of Bagram Airfield facilities, wounding three
civilian workers.[25] In June 2009, two U.S. soldiers were killed and at least six other personnel were
wounded during an early morning rocket attack.
Veterans Day at the base in 2008
In October 2009 The State reported on Bagram's expansion.[26] It reported that Bagram was
currently undergoing US$200 million expansion projects, and called the Airfield a "boom town".
According to the article: "Official U.S. policy is not to create a permanent occupation force in Afghanistan. But it is clear from what's
happening at Bagram Airfield—the Afghan end of the Charleston-to-Afghanistan lifeline—that the U.S. military won't be packing up
soon." In November 2009, construction of the Parwan Detention Facility was completed. It housed about 3,000 inmates, mostly
insurgents who were fighting against Afghanistan and NATO-led forces.
In March 2010, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) installed 150 solar powered lights to address reports of sexual assaults at the base. Eight
reported sexual assaults occurred at the base in 2009 involving Airmen; the U.S. Army's sexual assault response team reported treating
45 victims in 2009. The report revealed that most victims knew their attacker.[27]
In March 2010, insurgents attacked an area at the base with rockets. One of the rockets landed next to a B-Hut in a camp located on the
west side of the base killing a Bosnian national, who was working at Bagram as a contract firefighter.
In May 2010, a group of "nearly a dozen" insurgents attacked around the north end of the base. The
assault left one U.S. contractor dead while nine service members were reported wounded. A
spokesman for Bagram said a building was slightly damaged during the attack. Taliban spokesman
claimed 20 armed men wearing suicide vests attacked the base with four detonating explosives at the
entrances, but the military spokesman said they failed "to breach the perimeter" and were "unable to
detonate their suicide vests."[28] The attackers were dressed in U.S. Army uniforms.[29][30]
Early on the morning of 30 December 2010, Taliban militants fired two rockets on Bagram though
no casualties were reported. The insurgents claimed responsibility for the incident.[31] After the 2012 U.S. President Barack Obama at
Afghanistan Quran burning protests the United States decided to transfer the running of the Parwan Bagram in 2012
Detention Facility to Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), although the Americans continued to
have access to the facility and veto power over the release of inmates.
On 18 June 2013, the base was the subject of a mortar attack by Taliban forces, which resulted in four U.S. troops being killed and
several others wounded.[32] On Thanksgiving evening in 2013, a rocket attack killed 2 civilian contractors as they slept in their B hut on
the southern part of the field.[33]
On 28 November 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump visited the Bagram Airfield for the first time to
celebrate Thanksgiving with the U.S. troops there.[34]
As part of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, after nearly 20 years of continuous U.S. presence at
the site, the Bagram Air Base was secretly evacuated by the US during the night on 1 July 2021 and
de facto handed back to the Afghan government on 2 July 2021.[35][36][37][38] The last remaining
U.S. troops left the base by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without
notifying the Afghan Armed Forces.[39][40] The base was looted by local civilians soon after U.S.
forces left the area. The Afghan National Army later took control of the area and arrested some A night scene in November 2013
looters.[41]
On 15 August 2021, Afghan troops stationed there gave up their positions to the Taliban, losing
control of the airfield.[42]
Camp Vance
Camp Vance, Afghanistan[43] was the base, 1.4 km from the airfield, established in December 2002
by the United States Department of Defense to headquarter the Combined Joint Special Operations
Task Force (CJSOTF).[44] C-5 Galaxy
The camp was named for Gene Arden Vance Jr., a member of the U.S. Special Forces and a
cryptologic linguist who, despite being critically wounded, helped save the lives of two fellow Camp Vance
Americans and 18 Afghan soldiers during the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in the War in Afghanistan.
Near New Dehsabz City site
Camp Vance was headquartered by U.S. Special Forces troops whose core tasks included advising in Afghanistan
the Afghan National Army’s special operations forces and local police, training forces associated Coordinates 34°57′10″N
with the Village Stability Operations (VSO) and counterinsurgency (COIN).[45] The camp also 069°15′43″E
housed highly specialized battalion-level task forces built around Army Special Forces, infantry, a
Marine special operations battalion, and a Navy SEAL team.[46] Site information
Owner Afghanistan
Parwan Detention Facility Operator Afghanistan
Controlled by Afghanistan
The Parwan Detention Facility (PDF) was completed in 2009 and is located at Bagram Airfield. It
Open to Not open to public
was the main detention facility for persons detained by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The older
the public
detention facility, which was located at a different site, has been criticized in the past for alleged
Site history
torture and prisoner abuse. In 2005, The New York Times reported that two detainees had been Built 2002
beaten to death by guards in December 2002.[47] Amnesty International used the word "torture" to
In use 2016
describe treatment at the detention center.[48]
Apart from military and intelligence personnel, the only people officially allowed inside the prison
building were Red Cross representatives who inspected the facility once every two weeks. It was
reported in February 2009 that detainees had no access to any legal process.[49] Many of the officers
and soldiers interviewed by U.S. Army investigators in the subsequent criminal investigation said the
large majority of detainees were compliant and reasonably well treated.[47] However, some
interrogators routinely administered harsh treatment which included alleged beatings, sleep
deprivation, sexual humiliation, shackling to ceilings, and threats with guard dogs.[47] Amnesty
International has criticized the U.S. government for using dogs in this way at the detention The nurse office inside the Parwan
center.[48] Detention Facility
In 2005, the number of anti-American militants held at Bagram was 450,[50] but began increasing
then. In the same year, four al-Qaeda militants escaped from Bagram detention center.[50] To address the mounting human rights
violations and the 2005 escape incident, the U.S. decided to build a more modern detention facility. As of November 2011, more than
3,000 alleged militants and foreign terrorists were detained at PDF, roughly 18 times as many as in Guantanamo Bay. The number
increased 5-fold since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009.[51] The detainees included senior members of al-Qaeda and
Taliban militant commanders. In 2012, the Afghan government requested that control of the Parwan Detention Facility be handed over
to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
Incidents and accidents

19 December 2002: F-16A Block 20 MLU fighter overran a runway at Bagram Airfield and landed about 500 metres (1,600 ft) away
in a mine field. The Danish Air Force pilot was evacuated to a U.S. Army hospital.
25 December 2002: A C-130 ran off the runway, closing the runway for a 24-hour period. There were no injuries.
20 April 2003: A C-17 landed on part of the runway that was closed due to construction: The C-17 suffered over $2 million in main
landing gear damage. There were no injuries.
Alleged prisoner abuse at Bagram by U.S. personnel was the subject of the 2007 Academy Award-winning documentary Taxi to the
Dark Side. The film details the severe beatings and torture, and ultimate death, of an Afghan taxi driver being held at the Parwan
Detention Facility.
27 February 2007: A suicide bombing at the outer gate of the base left at least 23 people dead and injured 20 others.
10 August 2007: A U.S. CH-47 Chinook s/n 83-24123 while on the ground at Bagram Airfield, taxied into another parked CH-47D
aircraft (84-24182) and was severely damaged. There were no fatalities. The aircraft was written off.
8 August 2008: United Arab Emirates Air Force C-130 Hercules (S/N 1212) overran the runway and caught fire. The plane was
partially salvaged.
21 October 2008: A United States Navy P-3 Orion reconnaissance and intelligence aircraft
overshot the runway while landing. The aircraft caught fire and was destroyed but the only injury
to the crew was one broken ankle. The aircraft was from PATWING 5 from Naval Air Station
Brunswick and was assigned to CTF-57 in Afghanistan
1 March 2010: An ACT Airlines Airbus A300 TC-ACB sustained substantial damage when the
port main landing gear did not extend and lock out completely. It then collapsed on landing
forcing the aircraft to veer off the runway. The aircraft was a write-off and was scrapped within 4
days of the crash.[52]
10 June 2011: French Army Gazelle Viviane crashed about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Bagram in
the north of the country in difficult weather conditions. One person died and the pilot was Canadian service members wearing
seriously injured.[53] red poppy flowers attend a ramp
ceremony at Bagram Airfeld, 31
29 April 2013: National Airlines Flight 102 was a Boeing 747 that crashed on takeoff killing all 7
October 2011 to honour Master
American crew members. The crash was recorded by the dashboard video camera of an
Corporal Byron Greff, 3rd Battalion
approaching vehicle.[54] Princess Patricia's Canadian Light
21 December 2015: A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed 6 U.S. troops in an attack near the Infantry
base.
12 November 2016: A suicide bomber managed to enter the Air Force base, killing at least 4
Americans and injuring 17 others. U.S. and Afghan forces pledged an investigation on the matter.
11 December 2019: An Afghan suicide bomber hit an under construction medical facility near the base. Two Afghan civilians were
killed and 80 were wounded.[55][56][57]
9 April 2020: Five rockets hit the base with no casualties reported. The Taliban denied responsibility and Daesh claimed
responsibility.[58]
5 July 2022: A missile struck the base, killing six Taliban members and wounding two. The missile was fired by the Afghanistan
Freedom Front.[59]
See also
Camp Leatherneck
Camp Marmal
International Security Assistance Force
Kandahar International Airport
List of airports in Afghanistan
Transit Center at Manas (Manas Air Base)
War in Afghanistan order of battle, 2012
2019 Bagram Airfield attack
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