WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense only has about 250 civilian contractors in Iraq supporting the 2,700 US troops deployed there; but a handful of new solicitations and potential contracts may soon add to that number, according to items posted to a federal contracting Web site. For the past two decades, the resource-heavy American way […]
Sources say, billions of dollars of U.S. equipment is being abandoned in Afghanistan while less then five percent of Kurdish fighters can afford helmets might be a “two birds with one stone” opportunity here. According to Nolan Peterson of Blue Force Tracker, The U.S. military has two problems that one complementary solution can solve. 1. The Kurdish Peshmerga army […]
Washington is working to install a new air base in Iraq’s Kurdistan to be used in a campaign against Islamic State (ISIS), media report. This comes as the White House’s special envoy on ISIS speaks of a ground operation in Iraq against the militants.This time an American stronghold in the region will be deployed in […]
For the past five years, Camp Atterbury has been home to the Individual Readiness Deployment Operation Program, processing over 400 contractors a week since 2010. This past week Camp Atterbury and the IRDO staff received its final flight of civilian contractors for the redeployment process. Camp Atterbury, located in Edinburgh, Indiana, began as a mobilization […]
FORT BELVOIR — The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command, also known as USASAC, has implemented and completed a case for delivery of 250 Mine Resistant Armor Protected, or MRAP, vehicles to the Iraqi government. This complicated and monumental task was achieved in less than 90 days by USASAC and its security assistance enterprise partners, Dec. 23.