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Balad Air Base (Arabic: قاعدة بلد الجوية) (ICAO: ORBD), is an Iraqi Air Force base located near Balad in the Sunni Triangle 40 miles (64 km) north of Baghdad, Iraq.
Built in the early 1980s, it was originally named Al-Bakr Air Base. In 2003 the base was captured by the United States Armed Forces at the start of the Iraq War and was called both Balad Air Base and AnacondaLogistical Support Area (LSA) by the United States Army before being renamed Joint Base Balad on June 15, 2008. The base was handed back to the Iraqi Air Force on November 8, 2011, during the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, after which it returned to being called Balad Air Base.[1]
During the Iraq War it was the second largest U.S. base in Iraq. It was also one of the busiest airports in the world with 27,500 takeoffs and landings per month, second only to Heathrow Airport.[2] Today it is home to the Iraqi Air Force's contingent of Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcons.
^"Huge U.S. air base returned to Iraqi control". Reuters. November 9, 2011 – via www.reuters.com.
^"Huge U.S. air base returned to Iraqi control". Reuters. 9 November 2011. Archived from the original on 2019-02-22.
relocated their entire operation from Baghdad International Airport to BaladAirBase. Under combat conditions, the squadron transferred $73 million in equipment...
hands over another airbase to Iraqi forces". MilitaryTimes. April 5, 2020. "Marines, Coalition Forces Pull out of Iraq's Taqaddum AirBase | Military.com"...
balad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Balad may refer to: Balad, Iran Bir-e Bala or Bālād, Konarak, Iran Balad, Iraq BaladAirBase, Iraq Balad District...
Service Cross. By early 2004, a Joint Operations Center was set up in BaladAirBase where JSOC's war in Iraq would be run by the commander of Delta Force;...
Aviation Command (also referred to as 'Component'), which seems to be at BaladAirBase, one joint psychological operations task force, one Naval Special Warfare...
2007- An F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed shortly after takeoff out of BaladAirBase due to spatial disorientation. The pilot, Maj. Kevin Sonnenberg, was...
aggressive 60-day combat operation to kill or capture insurgents attacking BaladAirBase, Iraq. TF-1041's designated area of operations was one of the most violent...
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the U.S. Air Force 332d Air Expeditionary Wing before they moved to BaladAirBase in January 2004. The 726th Maintenance Battalion (Massachusetts) arrived...
million for buying parts and upgrading Abrams systems to mitigate industrial base risks and sustain development and production capability. Congress and General...
Iraq until 2015, due to concerns that the Islamic State might overrun BaladAirBase. The Iraqi Navy also purchased 12 US‑built Swift-class patrol boats...
designation used to refer to Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command F-16 units deploying to Joint BaseBalad. While the 332d designation was widely used...
and Brent crude oil futures. On 4 January 2020, two rockets hit the BaladAirBase located near Baghdad. Two mortars also hit Baghdad's Green Zone. These...
weeks at the request of the Department of Defense and Richard Myers, an air force general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After learning that...
of the task force's many aviation and intelligence assets, was based at BaladAirBase between Samarra and Baghdad; the four elements that it controlled...
foreseeable conditions), which can be reasonably anticipated but not quantified based on past experience as exemplified by case histories (in Appendix A) and...
Twenty-First Air Force. It became the 721st Air Mobility Operations Group in 2001. The group's Detachment 5 was located at BaladAirBase with a mission...
Lady) 116th Air Control Wing (E-8 Joint STARS) 432d Air Expeditionary Wing (MQ-1 Predator drones, operated remotely from Creech Air Force Base, Nevada) U...
current role at Caliburn. Comprehensive Health Services also operated at BaladAirBase during the time that Sallyport Global is accused of worker mistreatment...
USO. They played for U.S. Soldiers at Camp Adder, Camp Beuhring, and BaladAirBase. On January 20, 2011, Avenged Sevenfold announced via Facebook that...
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