Our neighbor girl's in Iraq, at "Camp Adder/Tallil"...how's that area? Anybody?

[elehhhhna]

She's also coming home September 11. Interesting timimg. Politically motivated? Are lots of troops coming home on September 11? Coments & info, please--

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Camp Adder? Who's the commanding officer?

[elehhhhna]

3. Shut. Up. LOL -- here's what I found:

Camp Adder
Camp Adder is located on Tallil Air Base. In late March 2003 Camp Adder was the southernmost Army resupply point in Iraq. Camp Adder in south-central Iraq is a dusty, middle-of-nowhere place. It assumed great importance in the Iraq war, with a motley collection of just about every kind of truck imaginable, from fuel tankers and water carriers to five-ton haulers. Taking a cue from private logistics masters like FedEx and Wal-Mart, the Army went high-tech in this war, equipping each supply truck with radio sensors that signal exactly where it is at all times. At Camp Adder, soldiers are housed in trailers, and they get to sleep on real beds with relatively new mattresses.

Operating out of Camp Adder in February 2006, the 48th Brigade Combat Team's Iraq— Medical Community Assessment Program founded a temporary clinic in a nearby school, bringing basic medical services to the Iraqi people where none existed before.

[EVDebs]

2. Camp Tallil ? You mean Tallil Airbase ?

Hmmm. Not listed by name ("unknown" on the Quaker's site --which caused their being spied on by NSA btw)

http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/bases.htm

but is listed as Nasiriyah and also here at

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/tallil.htm

"Tallil Airbase is located approximately 310 kilometers Southeast of Baghdad and 20 kilometers Southwest of the city of An Nasiriyah"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasiriya

and "...this uninhabitable stretch of desert brushland into an operational air base ..." One of the enduring a.k.a. permanent bases in Iraq

Drink lots of lemon-aide nightly to ward off kidney stones and drink plenty of fluids to prevent dehydration causing stones in that kind of desert !

BTW, Bush said we'd 'stand down' when Iraqis 'stand up'

'As Iraqis Stand Up, We Will Stand Down,' Bush Tells Nation June 2005
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=16277

[elehhhhna]

5. Thanks! I just found that link!

[burrowowl]

4. Hopefully she is coming back, many

just got extended 3 months.
A client of ours has a daughter in Iraq and she is supposed to come home soon too, but, who knows?

[stillcool]

6. Here's a map...

[Xithras]

7. Tallil is practically the Hilton.

That's one of the places my BIL did convoy escort duty to. Bars, private apartments, no Iraqi's in sight. Safe, secure, comfortable.

When you hear guys saying "Iraq isn't really that bad", that's generally because they were stationed at places like Tallil.

Your neighbors girl is fairly safe there (nowhere is 100% safe in a warzone). If she flies into the base, it's unlikely she'll ever be in anyones line of fire. She might be in a bit of danger if she's choppered in from Kuwait or comes in by road, but once on the base it's unlikely that anything would happen to her...barring a massive escalation of the war.