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. The CAF Task Force units deployed in Kabul continue, after reorganisation, in work of the three original contingents.
Resolute Support Mission:
Commander of the 17th ACR Task Force RSM:
Lieutenant Colonel Vaclav Malat
(Assumed operational task on 8th June 2018 for six months, till 30th November 2018).
Previous units of the Task Force were commanded by:
- Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Siska, Major Josef Nejedly, Colonel Jaroslav Jiru, Colonel Jaroslav Strupl, Colonel Jan Koziak, Colonel Martin Stochl, Colonel Jaroslav Trakal, Colonel Pavel Vesely, and others.
{the 1st unit /= 1st TASK FORCE/ served in Kabul for eight months}
The Task Force Comprised:
(I) Units under the direct command of Task Force commander:
- Command and Staff
- National Support Unit
- AAT Unit - Air Advisory Team trains Afghan airmen to pilot and maintain Mil Mi-17 helicopters
- Deployable Communication Module (DCM-B) - a team of communication specialists
- Group of Czech representatives at Kabul and Bagram RSM HQs
With the exception of personnel providing logistic and administrative support for all Czech soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, all the others worked in favour of the Hamid Karzai International Airport multi-national force.
(II) Unit under independent command:
- Guard Company at the Bagram Air Field in the Parwan Province
The total size of Czech presence in the RSM has been 348 personnel as of the 2nd November 2018.
Previous Czech units in Kabul
NATO websites about the Resolute Support Mission:
- NATO-led Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan (www.rs.nato.int/...)
- NATO and Afghanistan (https://www.nato.int/cps)
- Warsaw NATO Summit Declaration on Afghanistan (www.nato.int/cps/en...)
Updated: November 30, 2018