The military forces of the United States had made full use of Camp Buehring as their base camp during their war in Iraq. This camp, situated in Kuwait, has seen American soldiers coming to and from the Iraqi border which is just 15 miles away from the camp. Troops known to have set food of this camp include the Army Apache, Black Hawk and even the Chinook Helicopters. Camp Buehring has given the United States strategic location advantages as through basing their home-base here, they eventually won the war against the Iraqi extremists.
Before the Americans seized the camp and named it Buehring in honor of Lt. Col. H. Buerhing, a US military official killed in the war against the Iraqis, it was once called Camp Udairi. Lt. Col. Buerhing was killed 20 days after he turned 40 back in 2003. Rockets from the Iraqi’s Guerilla Forces were believed to have obliterated their group when they were staying in the hotel Al Rasheed in Baghdad. Before the incident that killed the group and destroyed the hotel, this was once the resting place for officers and soldiers who toiled at the CPA headquarters. This was what they considered a safe haven back then.
Although Camp Buehring is isolated, soldiers and visitors to the camp are offered plenty of amenities to amuse themselves with. The camp is surrounded by a region that goes by the name Udairi in Northwestern Kuwait that’s inhabited so it gives anyone an idea just how isolated the place is. Amenities and facilities here are what soldiers and visitors enjoy the most. The camp has its own internet café, coffee house, gym, phone bank, and even its Burger King branch and one pizza restaurant. Those who hunger for the taste of home can certainly get a lot of those from this camp. Food and drinks served just the way they are in America are enough to cure the homesickness of many soldiers in the camp.
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