I remember a SyFi story about a spaceship’s crew
having to do an inventory and they had something
listed as Offog and no one knew what it was so they
listed it as missing in space. Then there was an
official bruhahaha and lots of correspondence about it
turns out it was a misspelling and really meant
offical dog or the ships mascot.
Most Syfi is just real life transposed in time and space.
Afghanistan is just about as far from science fiction as possible. Most of our non-weapon supplies were taking a ten day train ride from either Latvia or Vladivostok to Afghanistan. To facilitate this the U.S. had to build a track to the closest city since Afghanistan was the largest country in the world without an operational railroad.
SyFi is a TV channel, sci fi is a genre. You are likely talking about a science fiction story, sometimes referred to as sci fi, because I seriously doubt if it that storyline has been featured on SyFi network.