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  2. List of the United States military installations in Iraq

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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).

  3. Camp Speicher - Wikipedia

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    Prior to 2003, Al Sahra Airfield was the main base of the Iraqi Air Force Air Academy. [1] The Marines from Task Force Tripoli captured the base from the Iraqi Army during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq [ 2 ] and turned it over to the United States Army who used it as the headquarters of the United States Division–North (USD-N, formerly ...

  4. List of American military installations - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [ 3 ]

  5. List of United States Air Force installations - Wikipedia

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    The number of active duty Air Force Bases within the United States rose from 115 in 1947 to peak at 162 in 1956 before declining to 69 in 2003 and 59 in 2020. This change reflects a Cold War expansion, retirement of much of the strategic bomber force, and the post–Cold War draw-down.

  6. Al-Asad Airbase - Wikipedia

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    The base was originally named Qadisiyah Airbase (قاعدة القادسية الجوية), a reference to the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah (c. 636). Qadisiyah AB was one of five new air bases built in Iraq as part of their Project "Super-Base", launched in 1975 as a response to the lessons learned during the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973.

  7. Contingency Operating Site Garry Owen - Wikipedia

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    It was apparently abandoned after Operation Desert Storm in March 1991, its proximity to the Kuwaiti border making it unsuitable for use by the Iraqi Air Force. During the Iraq War, the air base was turned into an operating base for the United States Army with addition of barracks and helipads. Deployed units:

  8. Category : Installations of the United States Army in Iraq

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    Pages in category "Installations of the United States Army in Iraq" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. ... Tikrit South Air Base; U.

  9. US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021) - Wikipedia

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    The United States had begun on 5 August 2014, with the direct supply of munitions to the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces and, with Iraq's agreement, the shipment of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program weapons to the Kurds, according to Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq and the U.N., in The Washington Post, [159] and the ...