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Dissident Voice
February 13, 2018
Camp Anaconda in Iraq, like many U.S. military bases scattered across the globe, was structured to resemble a mini-city with pools, fast food restaurants, miniature golf courses and movie theaters. While most Americans can scarcely afford the cost of heating and cooling their own homes, the AmericanÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
January 24, 2018
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld talks to members of the Air Force's 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Logistical Support Area Anaconda in 2006. (U.S. Defense Department). WASHINGTON — When Donald Rumsfeld arrived back at the Pentagon in 2001, he brought withÃâà...
kplr11.com
November 17, 2017
The crew landed that afternoon at Camp Anaconda, in Balad, Iraq, a sprawling military base north of Baghdad, five days before Christmas. Local New York City television station WPIX recorded the event over a week as they met with local troops from New York, bringing them a taste of the Big Apple — hotÃâà...
Mountain View Journal
October 18, 2017
In 2004-2005, he deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and served as the deputy theater aviation single manager at Camp Anaconda, Iraq. As an acquisitions officer, Tachias deployed frequently to Afghanistan and Iraq from 2004-2016. His final assignment was chief of staff for Program ExecutiveÃâà...
KSL.com
May 1, 2017
Palmer's 2006 tour of duty in Iraq was his last and most difficult as his unit came under fire at Camp Anaconda. "That's where you get really low and you start thinking, in this kind of environment, what's going to happen," Palmer said, because soldiers have no idea where and from which direction the attackÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
November 17, 2014
The burn pit at Camp Anaconda was about a mile north of the buildings where Joel Heath and his teammates spent most of his 12-hour workdays. Heath, a Defense Department civil servant, served in Iraq as an ammunition quality-assurance specialist. “Through the winter, after sunset, there were oftenÃâà...
International Business Times UK
June 25, 2014
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) militants have launched an attack on a key airbase in the town of Yathrib. The massive al-Bakr airbase, known as 'Camp Anaconda' during the US-led Iraq War, has come under intense attack from the Sunni Islamists who are determined to capture more regionsÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
July 2, 2004
CAMP ANACONDA, BALAD, IRAQ — A siren wails, followed by the all-too-familiar giant voice. "This is the command post. Code Red is in effect. Stay down. I say again, Code Red. Stay down," the voice booms through loudspeakers to troops hunkered in tents piled high with sand bags. The unmistakableÃâà...
