Combat units placed on “high alert” after Incirlik surrounded

TruNews.Com ^ | 1 August 2016

[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.

[Mashood]

All American!

[Former Proud Canadian]

"The 101st has not been capable of rapid response for decades."

Well, that's not very good news, is it?

[justa-hairyape]

Erdogan is actually replacing the entire military with an Islamic Police Force. They just claimed over 90% of military is loyal to Gulen. They will probably call the new military some type of Islamic Guard Force. What gets activated here in the states, is probably for replacing the forward deployed forces that enter a theater.

[justa-hairyape]

There is probably more than 50. Some say 90.

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

They are not a rapid response force, they are a follow on force. Tactically they are a very flexible and rapidly moving force due to thier helicopters. Strategically, it just takes a while to move all that stuff. Apaches amd Blachhawks are great birds, you just don’t want go and fly then across oceans

The Marines, who are forward deployed can get small forces with a little bit of everything anywhere quickly. The 82nd Airborne can get a lot of lightly equipped soldiers anywhere very quickly.

There is always a trade off between speed and combat power. Do you want it fast, heavy,or a massed force? Pick two of the three.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Thanks. Understood.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

The article is very poorly constructed; it is really two different articles. The first article concerns an alert status and the second concerns Incirlik.

Ignore the Incirlik article.

Here's the key phrase: "We were told at a safety briefing that it could be for anything, such as an attack on Clarksville and Nashville." The concern is local, very local.

[Enchante]

This is only guess, but I’m wondering if they have a protocol for non-combat transfers that says only one warhead can be moved at a time. They may not want multiple warheads on one transport?? In which case they might only move 2-3 per day when transporting away from Turkey??? Just a guess.....