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Among the exercise scenarios, Red Skies will look at how Space Force operators will handle threatening close approaches by adversary satellites.

The 1st and 5th battalions of 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigade cased their colors before their upcoming deployment to United States Central Command Monday in front of the brigade’s headquarters.

Sam. >> can we get an update on u.s. support for the haiti earthquake and disaster relief? >> i think we can facilitate that a little bit later, sam. yes, we can get you an update on that, yeah. >> a question for the general real quickly. sir, it sounds like from what were hearing from the podium that the u.s. is relying on the taliban for crowd control outside the gates. it was not part of the original plan. what forces were originally designed to conduct security outside the perimeter and how ...

So thats all i have. >> one more on the phone here. sam? >> hey, john. can we get an update on u.s. support for the haiti earthquake and disaster relief? >> yeah. i think we can facilitate that a little later, sam. but, yes we can get you an update on that, yeah. >> a question for the general real quick. sir, it sounds like from what were hearing from the podium, that the u.s. is essentially relying on the taliban for crowd control outside the gates. obviously that was not part of the original p...

>> can we get a update on u.s. support for the haiti earthquake and disaster relief. >> yeah, i think we can facility that later, sam. but yes, we can get you a update on that. it sounds like the u.s. is relying on the taliban for crowd control outside of the gates. that was not part of the plan. what forces were originally assigned to conduct security outside of the perimeter and how did that fall apart? where are they now? and then i have a follow up. >> the 5800 forces were part of that force...

0 require constant coordination and deconfliction with the taliban. it is absolutely requiring us to keep these lines of communication with the taliban open that have checkpoints beyond the airport. we have seen this coordination has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow to continue. one of our commanders used helicopters to bring people in because of the crowd size. crowd size matters, too, and thats what the president was referring to. >> i have two questions. i would like to go bac...

In preparation for a unique mission that will take them to 10 different countries, 1st Battalion, 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigade cased its unit colors June 3 in front of

And pakistan region. is it a suffice counter terror force with a force package? that takes us out of the nation building and the embedded with the afghan force. we are embedded with that force. we go to an operational level, the president has given us a thearm is not accurate. troops are not in combat operations. >> i agree all the time in afghanistan, but this question of what is the going to be in the next 24 months and how we transition to the mission in 2014. >> thank you for your time. stil...