Does anybody know anything about Camp Bucca?

[poiuytsister]

It's sort of a Gitmo type prison in Iraq. My son's AF wing is about to be deployed there to support the Army. Do I need to be terrified or REALLY TERRIFIED?

[liberaliraqvet26]

1. I served there in 2003...

what do you want to know?

[poiuytsister]

5. How threatened did you feel there?

He is Security Forces and will be doing some sort of guard duty.

[liberaliraqvet26]

6. Its actually relativly quiet in that area...

or at least it was back then. Its very close to the Kuwait border. I was there for over a year and we had few incidents.

[fooj]

2. I heard Randi Rhodes talking about it the other day.

You might want to check her website. I think it may be the place where the gallows are.

My thoughts are with you and your son. Welcome to DU.

[liberaliraqvet26]

3. Its not the place where the gallows are...

it is all the way south, about 15 minutes from the Kuwait border.

[fooj]

4. Thanks. I feel like such an idiot.

I really thought that is what I heard Randi say. My apologies. Seriously. To everyone...

[liberaliraqvet26]

7. Its in Umm Qasr, south of Basra.

[TahitiNut]

8. Relatively safe now - detainee prison - could get really hairy if Iran blows up.

I'm betting Iran would regard southern targets (land and Gulf) far preferable to collateral damage (i.e. Shi'ite) other places in Iraq.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. It's named after an FDNY fire marshal who died on 9/11. . .

Ronald Paul Bucca, from Tuckahoe, NY (Westchester County)
He was also an Army Special Forces guy.
http://cf.newsday.com/911/victimsearch.cfm?id=1080

Some more info about Camp Bucca:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Bucca

Make of it what you will.

:smoke:

[Poiuyt]

10. I think poiuytnephew wanted to go to Bucca because of the mud wrestling

On February 5, 2005, the tabloid paper New York Daily News reported that NCOs of the 160th MP Battalion organized and held a mud wrestling party on October 30, 2004. The party was also attending by members of the incoming 105th MP Battalion, who were arriving to relieve the members of the 160th. At least three female GIs stripped to their undergarments and wrestled in a kiddie-pool full of mud in front of a crowd of male GIs, and another GI flashed her breasts. About 30 photos of the party, including one of the flasher have been leaked to the press. The flasher, 19-year-old PFC Deanna Allen was demoted for indecent exposure, but it is unknown what other disciplinary measures have been taken against participants in the party. Although press interviews with soldiers indicate there was alcohol at the party, the Army has denied the involvement of alcohol.

more-

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

[poiuytsister]

11. Thanks for the laugh, Bro

What is it about the AirWomen? There was a story this week about an Air Force staff sgt getting busted for posing, shall we say "out of uniform" in Playboy.

[Poiuyt]

12. It was a good bust

[poiuytsister]

13. Ouch