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OIF/Transition of Iraq (2003-04)/COB Basra, Iraq
From Month/Year
May / 2003
To Month/Year
June / 2004
Description CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE BASRA, Iraq — For eight years, Camp Bravo bustled with hundreds of soldiers and contractors tasked with establishing security in Basra, Iraq’s second largest city.
Today, the hard-shelled tents erected by the British and later used by Americans are uninhabited.
Rows of commercial generators remain silent. The only tracks in the mud belong to animals, and they lead to torn bits of plastic food packaging. The camp, like hundreds of other shuttered former U.S. bases, is now a ghost town.
