Camp Buehring

Camp Buehring
Kuwait
Sign at Camp Buehring's main entrance (May 2006)
Camp Buehring Shown within Kuwait
Coordinates	29°41′52″N 47°25′35″E / 29.69778°N 47.42639°E / 29.69778; 47.42639Coordinates: 29°41′52″N 47°25′35″E / 29.69778°N 47.42639°E / 29.69778; 47.42639
Type	Staging post
Site information
Owner	U.S. Department of Defense
Site history
Built	2002 (2002)
In use	January 2003-Present
Airfield information
Elevation	131 metres (430 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 18/36 1,300 metres (4,265 ft) Asphalt

Camp Buehring (formerly Camp Udairi) is a staging post for US troops in the northwestern region of Kuwait. From its founding in January 2003 to present date, the base was used for military troops heading north into Iraq, as well as the primary location for the Middle Eastern Theater Reserve. The areas surrounding Camp Buehring, known as the Udairi Range Complex, are largely uninhabited, save for a few nomadic Bedouin tribes raising camels, goats, and sheep.

Camp Buehring is named after Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Buehring who was killed in Baghdad on October 26, 2003. Buehring was one of the highest ranking U.S. casualties of the Iraq War. Camp Udairi was renamed in his honor in 2004.

Units

• 185th Theater Aviation Brigade until December 2015
• 40th Combat Aviation Brigade from December 2015
• 48th Air Brigade^[1] - may be incorrect.
• 1st Battalion 168th Aviation Regiment (GSAB) 'Hercules' with Boeing CH-47F Chinook's^[1]
  • Company B (Chinook)
• 1st Battalion, 111th Aviation Regiment (GSAB), 77th Combat Aviation Brigade during October 2016
  • Company A (UH-60 & AH-64)

References

External links

Media related to Camp Buehring at Wikimedia Commons

• Camp Buerhing at Global Security
• Army Lt. Col. Charles H. Buehring
• Stars and Stripes article on renaming to Camp Buehring