The Pentagon has said that the withdrawal of remaining U.S. military forces in Afghanistan is making steady headway, with up to 12 percent of the process already complete. The U.S. military’s Central Command, or Centcom, said in a May 11 statement that it estimates completion of between 6-12 percent “of the entire retrograde process,” the technical term for withdrawal of forces and equipment. At the same time, the Pentagon is not disclosing specific troop drawdown numbers as a precaution against possible Taliban attacks. Centcom said that enough equipment had been decommissioned to fill 104 of the U.S. military’s jumbo transport aircraft, the C-17 Globemaster planes. At the same time, more than 1,800 pieces of equipment have been turned over to the Defense Logistics Agency for destruction, while one facility has been handed over to the Afghan National Army. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday that the U.S. military was being deliberately …