Four more Special Forces teams were sent to Afghanistan last fall, according to one of the documents obtained by The Times. The Times viewed reports submitted by six Army bomb disposal units deployed to Afghanistan and Syria from 2017 to 2019. Taken together with a half-dozen other documents, including some written before units arrived in war zones, they portray a need for set training programs for explosive technicians who support Special Operations troops. forces to Special Operations forces,” according to one document from 2017. Another, from April 2019, said that “mission success relies upon the quality of predeployment training conducted” between the Special Forces and bomb disposal soldiers.

Source: New York Times July 17, 2019 21:09 UTC