19th CAF Task Force RSM

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operation has been renamed to the Resolute Support Mission (RSM), a NATO-led training operation in Afghanistan, since 1st January 2015.

The Czech Armed Forces Task Force in ISAF operation was an organisational unit set up in 2010, whose commander directly commanded Czech units deployed at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul - HKIA (formerly: Kabul International Airport - KAIA), and administratively controlled and provided logistic support for the rest of the Czech units serving elsewhere in Afghanistan on the ISAF operation until 31st December 2014. From 1st January 2015, the ISAF was renamed to the Resolute Support Mission. ACR Task Force units deployed in Kabul continue, after reorganisation, in work of the three original contingents.

Resolute Support Mission:

Commander of the 19th CAF Task Force RSM:

Lieutenant Colonel Roman Smolka

 

Deployment: 06/2019 - 12/2019.

 

The Task Force Comprises:

(I) Units under the direct command of Task Force commander:

  • National Support Unit

With the exception of personnel providing logistic and administrative support for all Czech soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, all the others work in favour of the Hamid Karzai International Airport multi-national force.

 Location of the CAF Task Force RSM

(II) Unit under independent command:

  • Group of Czech representatives at Kabul and Bagram RSM HQs

  • Military Police Unit KAMBA

  • Guard Company at the Bagram Air Field in the Parwan Province

  • AAT Unit - Air Advisiry Team trains Afghan airmen to pilot maitain Mil Mi-17 helicopters

  • Deployable Communication Module (DCM-B) - a team of communication specialists

 

In accordance with the mandate approved by the Government and Parliament of the Czech Republic, up to 390 soldiers can be deployed in the Resolute Support Mission.

 

Previous Czech units in Kabul

 

NATO websites about the Resolute Support Mission:

Updated: August 12, 2020