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BALAD, Iraq -- Air Force Lt. Col. Pete Gersten, an F-16 squadron commander here, is presiding over air operations that have surprisingly little in common with those of other recent wars. In the 1991 ...

Le Roy Torres remembers the air at Joint Base Balad in Iraq smelled like burning rubber. It felt as though he were “breathing in charcoal” while he was deployed there with the U.S. Army Reserve ...

Iraq may still face the same problem that plagued it decades ago: namely, its inability to adequately maintain and field such ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military has handed over to the Iraqi government its 2nd largest Iraq base, a joint army and air force complex that housed some 36,000 American troops and contractors at ...

Balad, Iraq, Feb. 29, 2008: Pvt. Joseph Stevenson, 26, of Cleburne, Texas, retrieves some clamps from one of hundreds of drawers in the supply warehouse that 412th Aviation Support Battalion’s Company ...

The bus that crashed today while carrying pilgrims to Karbala is pictured at the police station in Balad, Iraq, Saturday Sept. 2, 2023. A bus carrying pilgrims to the Iraqi city of Karbala overturned ...

Logistical Support Area Anaconda, Iraq, 2004: Sailors muscle up the side of a berm to lay down the plastic liner that goes under the fuel bladder at the Fuel Farm, also known as the “Bag Farm.” The ...