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 Forward Operating Base (FOB) Falcon, Iraq

In mid-September 2004, as part of an Army-wide effort to give its facilities around Baghdad friendlier connotations, and try to resolve the issue of constantly-changing facility names, Camp Ferrin-Huggins reverted back to its previous name of Camp Falcon, with the Arabic translation "Camp Al-Saqr".

By late January 2004 engineers from the 1st Armored Division were midway through an $800 million project to build half a dozen camps for the incoming 1st Cavalry Division. Army planners expected to finish by 15 March 2004. The new outposts, dubbed Enduring Camps, will improve living quarters for soldiers and allow the military to return key infrastructure sites within the Iraqi capital to the emerging government. Plans called for the camps to last between five to 10 years, possibly even longer. Moving to the outskirts of town will allow Iraqi police and the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps to take a lead role in the city's security. At Camp Falcon, on the southern outskirts, a base camp for 5,000 was planned.

The 1st Cavalry Division's 5th Brigade Combat Team assumed the mission of securing Baghdad's Al Rashid District from the 1st Armored Division's Division Artillery Combat Team at a transfer-of-authority ceremony 06 April 2004. Col. Stephen Lanza was the 1st Cavalry's 5th Brigade Combat Team, or Red Team, commander. Since arriving in Iraq a year ago, the 1st Armored's DivArty Combat Team had completed a number of different missions. The DIVARTY Combat Team, the 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Regiment, and the 1st Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, led the force protection package at Baghdad International Airport. Later, the unit set up a counter-battery center to combat the mortar and rocket fire into the airport and 1st Armored's headquarters. In January 2004, they moved to Forward Operating Base Falcon. The 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment and Task Force 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were later added to the DIVARTY Combat Team and assumed responsibility of the city's Al Rashid District.
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The 1st Armored Division Artillery accepted authority of the Al Rashid district in southern Baghdad from 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, during a transfer of authority ceremony at Camp Falcon, 23 January 2004. The Division Artillery Combat Team looked forward to working with the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, specifically the 504th battalion and Alpha Company, 36th Battalion, which called Camp Falcon home.

On October 10, 2006, at approximately 10:40 p.m., a 82mm mortar round, fired by militia forces from a residential area in Abu T-Shir, caused a fire at an Ammunition Supply Point (ASP) at FOB Falcon. The ASP, containing tank and artillery rounds, in addition to smaller caliber ammunition, set off a series of large explosions. About 100 troops from the 4th Infantry Division were reported to be stationed at the base at the time, but no injuries were reported.

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"We eventually arrived in Iraq. After initial in-processing into country we moved by rotary aircraft to Forward Operating Base Falcon. ...
Camp Falcon is planned to house 5000 soldiers. Camp Victory is a US Army base situated on airport grounds about 5 kilometers from Baghdad International ...
For example, there are no plans to transfer the 3000 American troops stationed within Baghdad at Forward Operating Base Falcon, because commanders have ...
US Army soldiers depart Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq, aboard a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, April 12, 2009. (US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Daniel ...

For example, there are no plans to transfer the 3000 American troops stationed within Baghdad at Forward Operating Base Falcon, because commanders have ...
Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq -- It was an early morning show. The plywood conference room was filled with Airmen packed around an oblong table. ...
The current training team will be departing Iraq soon, but soldiers from the North Carolina National Guard battalion will continue the programs. ...
Layton now serves as the brigade medical planner for the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team at Forward Operating Base Falcon on the southern edge of Baghdad. ...
A specialist, Bradley celebrated his 21st birthday last month in Iraq at Forward Operating Base Falcon in South Baghdad. The base is also home to Company E, ...
The same goes for Forward Operating Base Falcon, which typically houses 5000 troops within Baghdad's southern city limits. It, too, will reportedly remain ...
The battalion arrived in December and spent its first five months at Forward Operating Base Falcon, a base with big mess halls, Fast Food and more than one ...
The report reads: "The [US and Iraqi] troops assembled by torchlight at Camp Falcon for a mission to the farming village of Owessat, which American and Iraq ...
Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq - As the US military begins to withdraw combat forces, transition training teams continue to bring stabilization to the ...
US Army soldiers depart Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq, aboard a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, April 12, 2009. (US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Daniel ...
For example, there are no plans to transfer the 3000 American troops stationed within Baghdad at Forward Operating Base Falcon, because commanders have ...
Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq -- It was an early morning show. The plywood conference room was filled with Airmen packed around an oblong table. ...
The current training team will be departing Iraq soon, but soldiers from the North Carolina National Guard battalion will continue the programs. ...
Since Turner was part of a surge unit, the soldiers at Forward Operating Base Falcon slept in tents. In March, when heavy fighting flared up, ...
Layton now serves as the brigade medical planner for the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team at Forward Operating Base Falcon on the southern edge of Baghdad. ...
A specialist, Bradley celebrated his 21st birthday last month in Iraq at Forward Operating Base Falcon in South Baghdad. The base is also home to Company E, ...
The same goes for Forward Operating Base Falcon, which typically houses 5000 troops within Baghdad's southern city limits. It, too, will reportedly remain ...
The battalion arrived in December and spent its first five months at Forward Operating Base Falcon, a base with big mess halls, Fast Food and more than one ...
The report reads: "The [US and Iraqi] troops assembled by torchlight at Camp Falcon for a mission to the farming village of Owessat, which American and Iraq ...
He recently returned from Baghdad, Iraq where he served as Fire Chief for two years at Camp Falcon army Base. He has served in various countries with ...
Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq - As the US military begins to withdraw combat forces, transition training teams continue to bring stabilization to the ...
On 20 November 2007, 1LT Witmer and his Bradley section turned the tide of the battle by demonstrating Bushmaster's willingness to support the Sons of Iraq ...
At a memorial service at Forward Operating Base Falcon in Baghdad on May 29, George was remembered as someone who believed he could change the world, ...
Jason George and Missouri National Guardsman Sgt. Paul Brooks, were remembered along with Barnard at a memorial service at Forward Operating Base Falcon on ...
Jason George and Missouri National Guardsman Sgt. Paul Brooks, were remembered along with Barnard at a memorial service at Forward Operating Base Falcon on ...
First Lieutenant Leevi Barnard was killed in Iraq on May 21st. Friday, soldiers from the Forward Operating Base Falcon in Iraq remembered Barnard and his ...
Brooks, 34, a father of eight from Joplin, Mo., volunteered for this, his second tour in Iraq, as a medic. He was with the battalion less than week before ...
Lyjak, from Monroe, NC, is deployed with the "Old Hickory" brigade at Forward Operating Base Falcon in Iraq. Lyjak has processed about 1200 packages since ...
by Tom MacCallum soldiers of Company E 1/120th CAB in Hamlet are now billeted at Forward Operating Base Falcon in Iraq where the Hamlet City flag has been ...
His military career has seen 15 months serving at Camp Falcon, Iraq, in support of the army's 1st Infantry Division. He is currently stationed at Fort ...
Today, after a year's absence, Aldawoodi is in Iraq again â€" this time as an American soldier. In fact, until recently transferred to a post outside Baghdad ...
Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq -- Airmen from the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, Det. 3, Police Transition Training Team paid tribute to ...
Kubas, of Elm City, NC, joined the NC National Guard in February 2008 and is now deployed at Forward Operating Base Falcon in Iraq. ...
That agreement has posed a problem for the US Army's Forward Operating Base Falcon, located within Baghdad city limits. the US and Iraqi governments have ...
Correspondent Jane Arraf discusses the unpredictability of Iraq. Baghdad - On a map of Baghdad, the US Army's Forward Operating Base Falcon is clearly ...
Nowell, a native of Aiken, SC, works on Forward Operating Base Falcon as a cashier. She accurately disbursed and collected more than $300000 in US dollars ...

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