Along with performing force protection duties on base, they went outside the wire patrolling nearby villages to conduct counter insurgency operations aimed at deterring stand-off attacks and developing a rapport with the villagers. Within three months, 200 tents were set up and more than 12 million pounds of cargo and over 1,000 troops were processed. Personnel On December 16, 2001, members of the 86th Contingency Response Group (CRG), including the 786 SFS, from Ramstein AB, Germany, labored in the bitter cold to build a base from scratch at Manas International Airport, in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. On December 16, 2001, the military launched an operation against the Taliban called Operation Enduring Freedom. The President noted that ―this military action is a part of our campaign against terrorism, another front in a war that has already been joined through diplomacy, intelligence, the freezing of financial assets and the arrests of known terrorists by law enforcement agents in 38 countries. The President addressed the nation and announced that he had ordered an attack on Afghanistan‘s Taliban regime. No response was received from Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban government by the President‘s October 7, 2001, deadline. President Bush requested their cooperation in apprehending the terrorists and bringing them to justice. Bush to ―use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.‖ The Taliban government of Afghanistan harbored the organizations that attacked the United States. On September 18, 2001, Congress authorized President George W. Security Forces were present in Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan and numerous other countries. After the attacks of 9-11, numerous units were deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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