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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.
U.S. Air Force veteran Tyler Strine, photographed at the Chalmers P. Wylie Veterans Outpatient Clinic. ... 38, who was in his mid-20s when he was deployed to what’s now called Joint Base Balad ...
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 the final weeks of 2003, Colonel Stuart Herrington had been on an inspection of Camp Nama—the special ops facility at Baghdad Airport, (at the time it was TF 121 main operations centre in Iraq prior to moving to Balad Air Base) in particular he inspected the detention and interrogation facilities-where individuals captured by JSOC and SAS ...
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 ...
The 2007 AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crash was an aviation accident involving an Antonov An-26 airliner, which crashed on 9 January 2007 while attempting to land at the Joint Base Balad in Balad, Iraq, which was at that time operated by the United States Air Force. [2] The crash killed 34 people aboard and left one passenger critically injured.