Report - United States Department of Defense

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has three Mi17v1s and 10 Mi-17v5s on loan from the Afghan Air Force. The remaining 17 Mi-
17s are in overhaul or awaiting disposition.
SMW development and training continues to include building night vision goggle (NVG)
aircrew capacity, staff development, unit command and control (C2) battle tracking capability
and preparation of the Wing HQ for activation of the Special Operations Aviation Squadrons.
The SMW NVG capability now includes five full Afghan crews. The unit conducted several
Afghan-planned, led and fully executed NVG missions in support of MoI and MoD taskings.
The SMW has begun to increase its operational situational awareness by establishing a
Situational Awareness Room (SAR) at the Wing HQs in order to track daily unit status and to
conduct limited battle tracking. The HQs was issued 30 Afghan National Tracking System
(ANTS) devices, which allow the tracking of aircraft operating throughout the battle space. The
SAR will become fully operational once the SMW receives its ground communications
equipment and is accessed into the MoD and MoI networks. The SMW's growth remains on
track with the Wing HQ expected to be at Initial Operational Capability (IOC) along with the
activation of the 1st Squadron by spring 2013.
International and Interagency Counternarcotics Efforts
Several interagency and international organizations support CN operations in Afghanistan,
including the Interagency Operations and Coordination Center (IOCC), CJIATF-Nexus, and the
Joint Narcotics Analysis Center (JNAC).
The IOCC provides intelligence and operational support to law enforcement CN operations in
Afghanistan. The IOCC, led by the DEA and United Kingdom’s Serious Organized Crime
Agency (SOCA), is the central CN cell for developing an understanding of how the Afghan and
regional narcotics trade supports the insurgency and drives corruption. The IOCC partners with
ISAF and other CJIATF-A organizations such as CJIATF-Shafafiyat and CJIATF-Nexus to
conduct law enforcement CN operations in non-secure, predominately military environments,
while bringing together the necessary resources to conduct an effective civil-military campaign
to counter the narcotics-corruption-insurgent nexus.
CJIATF-Nexus, an ISAF organization with representatives from the international law
enforcement community, also supports interdiction operations to counter the narcoticscorruption-insurgent
nexus. CJIATF-Nexus specifically targets network functions (e.g., safe
havens, movement, communications, and finance), rather than individual traffickers, in order to
disrupt network resiliency. CJIATF-Nexus improved and expanded its narcotics targeting
support during the reporting period, providing support for law enforcement investigations and
military operations by analyzing key trafficking networks and improving visibility on
powerbroker corruption in RC-S, RC-SW, RC-W, and RC-E.
The U.S. and UK Joint Narcotics Analysis Center (JNAC) continued to perform strategic-level
analysis. JNAC’s mission is to provide strategic counter-narcotics policy and operational
decision-makers with independent, accurate all-source intelligence on the Afghan and wider
regional drug trade, and to evaluate the potential and actual effectiveness of CN strategies and
operations.
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