Posted on 08/01/2016 8:04:58 AM PDT by amorphous
Vero Beach, FL - (TRUNEWS) Fort Campbell, KY and other active duty combat installations through the U.S. were placed on high alert status Friday, according to a military source.
All units in the 101st Airborne Division are currently operating under a 12 hour recall order as of Friday night, according to the active duty soldier, and other combat bases are also on the same recall status for potential combat deployment.
The source told TRUNEWS:
We were told at a safety briefing that it could be for anything, such as an attack on Clarksville and Nashville. Crew serve weapons are locked in vehicles, ready to be quickly mounted, 24 hour guard has been implemented on our motor pool, and past 17:00 PM EST police dogs are being used to search every car coming through gate.”
Nicknamed the “Screaming Eagles”, the 101st Airborne Division is an elite modular specialized light infantry division of the United States Army, trained for air assault operations. Its unique battlefield mobility and high level of training have kept the division in the vanguard of America’s land combat forces in recent conflicts.
TRUNEWS has reached out to the Public Affairs Office for Fort Campbell as well as Brigade, Battalion, and Company staff duty desks for comment. However, no official reply has been given at this time, and the Staff Sergeant manning the Division staff duty desk “could not confirm or deny” the alert status.
On Saturday night, Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reported that 7,000 police armed with rifles and armored TOMA vehicles surrounded the Incirlik Air Base, blockading the entrance. Hurriyet reported that the force response was carried out by Adana police after being tipped off about a new coup attempt, being launched in part from Incirlik Air Base.
RT reported Saturday that a real time airspace map from FlightRadar24 appeared to show the airspace around the NATO base had also been closed. They also highlighted a tweet from a Twitter account named “Income Disparity”, who reported that communication with Incirlik had been cut off, and attempts to communicate with the base by email or phone had failed.
Turkey’s minister for EU Affairs Ömer Çelik downplayed the situation in a Twitter post, saying a “security inspection” was being carried out. Top US military official, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford arrived in Turkey on Sunday, with plans to visit Ankara and Incirlik AB.
TRUNEWS previously reported that commercial power had been cut to Incirlik AB after a failed military coup attempt was tied to the bases top Turkish military commander. In an interview with Hans Kristensen, the Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, TRUNEWS learned that approximately 50 B-61 nuclear warheads are stored under Incirlik AB and that it would take approximately three weeks to transfer from the underground bunkers in the event of an emergency
No public statements have been released by US military officials about the event, but reports circulated Sunday that the blockade around the base had been lifted, and communications restored.
TRUNEWS spoke with Incirlik Air Base’s Public Affairs Office Monday morning, confirming communications had been restored, and we are currently awaiting a public statement regarding this weekends military response.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-31/turkey-blocks-access-to-airbase-on-coup-suspicion-hurriyet-says
Access has been restored. Prudent to spool up the 101st though. The nukes and the personnel at Incirlik are just hostages right now and the Turks are showing their true colors.
The 101st should have an Exercise close to Turkey
But Erdogan is Obama’s new BFF.
Man, I sure hope they have enough uniforms to change into and out of before they are ordered to stand down.
Perhaps this might be of interest:
http://www.stripes.com/news/dunford-in-turkey-for-talks-with-us-troops-and-turkish-leaders-1.421893
Would placing units on “high alert” status come from Obama, or would that be down by someone lower down the chain of command, and if so, how low down?
The 82nd is more than likely there, or very close by.
I’ve spent many a day and night and day and night on the flightline and other units on alert with TA-50 reading, sleeping, smoking, joking, eating MREs.
I don’t envy these guys the time they’re spending; I don’t miss it either.
“TRUNEWS learned that approximately 50 B-61 nuclear warheads are stored under Incirlik AB and that it would take approximately three weeks to transfer from the underground bunkers in the event of an emergency”
I do not believe this statement. Of what use would prepositioned weapons be that require 3 weeks to transfer from storage.
I don't know why it would take so long, and the answer is likely classified. I do know it has been reported numerous times by others, and reported in numerous threads here on FR. I agree is sounds rather preposterous.
The area could become a quiet neighborhood for many years as the final resort to prevent seizure of bunker contents. They could be dialed select-yield from sub-kilo to 340.
This article stinks with BS. The 101st is has not been capable of rapid response for decades. It and its Brigades are Air Assault not Airborne. It takes them up to 45 days to get anywhere as they have pack up their helicopters and send them by sea.
If there was a true crisis at Incirlik, the call would have to go to the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Europe, the Division Ready Brigade from the 82nd at Fort Bragg, and/or a Marine Expeditionary Unit afloat.
The Turks are too busy cleaning house and purging their military of real or imagined opponents of Erdogan. If he wants to expel us and NATO from Incirlik, he will likely wait until he has firm control of his military. Right now, accusing us of supporting the coup is a useful lie to deflect scrutiny of his own regime.
“I do not believe this statement. Of what use would prepositioned weapons be that require 3 weeks to transfer from storage.”
That’s probably the private-contractor, PC, OSHA, EPA, standard. The Emergency War Mode is to just hang them on F-16s and Tornados and fly off.
Normally, the price of oil would shoot up with this kind of news. However, with the systemic corruption we now have EVERYWHERE, this stuff doesn’t even faze the markets anymore. Or, it didn’t matter before either, but they lied through the media claiming it did. Corruption everywhere...
John Kerry will go there with Cat Stevens, I mean Yuseph Islam, to lead a sing along.
Yep. That doesn’t make any sense.
Regardless, we should move them out of Turkey.
0bama should be impeached, and the current JCS should be canned.
5.56mm
“TRUNEWS learned that approximately 50 B-61 nuclear warheads are stored under Incirlik AB and that it would take approximately three weeks to transfer from the underground bunkers in the event of an emergency”
I do not believe this statement. Of what use would prepositioned weapons be that require 3 weeks to transfer from storage.”
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