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Waste burning in the 1st Marine Division Support Area in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War in 1991.. Joint Base Balad (JBB), the largest U.S. base in Iraq had a burn pit operation as late as the summer of 2008, burning 147 tons of waste per day when the Army Times published a major story about it and related health concerns.
On 8 November 2011, as U.S. forces were in the process of withdrawing from Iraq, Joint Base Balad was handed back to the Iraqi Air Force, after which it returned to being called Balad Air Base. [1] The base is home to the Iraqi Air Force's General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons [ 24 ] of 9th Fighter Squadron (34 aircraft operating in 2023).
Camp Bucca (Arabic: سجن بوكا, romanized: Sijn Būkā) was a forward operating base that housed a theater internment facility [1] maintained by the United States military in the vicinity of Umm Qasr, Iraq.
Le Roy and Rosie Torres credit President Biden for recognizing sometimes deadly affects of soldiers' exposure to toxic burn pits during wartime. Texas veteran, burn pit awareness champion appears ...
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Map of major U.S. military bases in Iraq and the number of soldiers stationed there (2007) The United States Department of Defense continues to have a large number of temporary military bases in Iraq, most a type of forward operating base (FOB).
Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night just feet from the execution chamber where he was set to be put to death for the murder of his toddler – even as the ...
On 12 June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) summarily executed between 1,095 and 1,700 [2] Iraqi cadets near Tikrit.The killings took place during ISIL's Northern Iraq offensive, when the cadets were captured outside of Camp Speicher during their attempt to flee from the area.