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1 min
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Department of Veterans' Affairs
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They had a lot of stuff cached up. When the Russians invaded, they brought a lot of ordinance. The Taliban, they captured a lot of that and they just reused it. They had caves just stockpiled, tons and tons of things. So they had a lot of equipment. They were pretty worried, I know one of the big fears at that time was did they have any anti-aircraft missiles.
That was the big question because I don't know the exact ins and outs but I do know that when the Russians were there, the Americans were backing the Mujahideen. One of things they did give them was, from my understanding, is they had some surface-to-air missiles. Just portable ones, but I don't know exactly whether they were all fully accounted for, but we were worried about that.
