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Balad Air Base (Arabic: قاعدة بلد الجوية) (ICAO: ORBD), is an Iraqi Air Force base located near Balad in the Sunni Triangle 40 miles (64 km) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Built in the early 1980s, it was originally named Al-Bakr Air Base .
Rasheed Air Base Camp: Redemption (Abu Ghraib) Camp: Renegade: Kirkuk: Kirkuk: April 2003: Renamed Camp Warrior in 2004: Kirkuk Air Base Camp: Ridgeway (Al Taqaddum) Camp: Ripper (Al Asad) Al Anbar: Camp: Roach Camp Hadithah: Haditha: Al Anbar: Camp: Rustamiyah also known as Camp Cuervo: Rasheed Air Base Camp: Sather: Baghdad: April 2003 ...
The largest military air base in Iraq, formerly LSA Anaconda, Balad Air Base, or Al-Bakir Air Base, is located within the municipality of Yathrib near Balad.As of early 2007 the base was the central hub for airlift and US Air Force operations in Iraq; it was also a major transshipment point for US Army supply convoys.
Tahseen al-Khafaji said the rockets landed outside Balad air base after midday. The attack was the first on an Iraqi base housing U.S. troops since an assault last month on a base in western Iraq ...
A US business with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts is being accused of allowing major violations to occur at the Balad Air Base in Iraq
In support of the re-posture of U.S. forces, the wing continued to support U.S. Forces-Iraq after forward deploying to an undisclosed air base in Southwest Asia in November 2011 so Joint Base Balad could be returned to the government of Iraq. And as the last U.S. convoy left Iraq on 18 December 2011 with the 332nd AEW's F-16s and MQ-1B ...
“When you’re mission-oriented and mission-focused, that stuff is a non-issue,” said Strine, 38, who was in his mid-20s when he was deployed to what’s now called Joint Base Balad. “We ...
RFF 619 is the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces. The 732nd ESFS was part of the 732nd Air Expeditionary Group under the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, headquartered at Balad Air Base, Iraq. Det-3 was a subordinate unit of the 1-1 Cavalry and the 336 MP Battalion. In January 2009, Detachment 2 was formed and deployed to join the PTT efforts in ...