Crisostomo, George, CSM

The 101st Forward Support Battalion deployed to Camp Junction City.

The First Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team deployed to Iraq from Fort Riley beginning on 4 September 2003, and took over combat operations from the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment in the Ar Rammadi and Habbiniyah area of operations on 26 September 2003. The Brigade Combat Team was fighting as part of the 82d Airborne Division and occupied three major base camps: Base Camp Junction City in Ar Rammadi containing the Brigade Headquarters, 1st Battalion 16th Infantry, 1st Battalion 5th field Artillery, 1st Engineer Battalion, D Troop 4th Cavalry, 331 Signal Company, and C Battery 4-3 Air Defense; Base Camp Manhattan in Habbiniyah containing 1st Battalion 34th Armor; and Forward Operating Base Ridgway near Al Taqqadam airfield containing the 101st Forward Support Battalion.

The Ar Ramadi Regional Pubic Safety Academy currently exists on approximately 25 acres (at coordinates LC 3706800591) within the external security wall of Camp Junction City. The total expected student population daily is 250 students.

The US Mission Iraq, and the Iraqi Ministry of Interior have a requirement to upgrade a semi-permanent police training academy in AR Ramadi, Iraq, (Grid Coordinate LC 37068 00591) and provide life support services. To accomplish this the CPA intends to award a cost type contract to a single vendor to provide immediate life support operations for 275 and install the remaining required facilities as provided in this SOW.

The installation has an existing perimeter security wall but the system does not provide adequate stand off distances in some areas, and other areas within the compound are unprotected in the event of the external walls being breached. The new security system design shall include a wall that will obstruct view of the site; the top of the wall shall be prepared with "Y" brackets to hold concertina wire security on top that encompasses the entire perimeter of the installation; design of a denial system at the security gates on the perimeter walls; and barriers and or trenches to provide explosion stand off distances where vehicles/motorcycles can enter.

It was reported widely in July of 2005 that troops and civilians at Camp Junction City were exposed to contaminated water, supplied by Halliburton Co. Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, disputed the allegations and a subsequent military medical unit found nothing out of the ordinary. Marine Corps Major Tim Keefe said, "The allegations appear not to have merit".

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