page_title: Camp Arifjan
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Camp Arifjan / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Eric Bana has his picture taken with US Soldiers,Seabee Sailors, Airmen and Marines at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, during an April 11, 2009 screening of Star Trek.
context_page_description: Camp Arifjan is a United States Army installation in Kuwait which accommodates elements of the US Air Force, US Navy, US Marine Corps and US Coast Guard. The camp is funded and was built by the government of Kuwait. Military personnel from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Romania and Poland are also forward deployed there. Camp Arifjan is located south of Kuwait City, and west of the Shuaiba Port and Kuwait Naval Base. Camp Arifjan is divided into 7 zones.
  Camp Arifjan is a US military installation used as a forward logistics base, Aviation Classification and Repair Activity Depot for the entire Southwest Asian Theater, helicopter ground support base, and as a motor pool for armored and unarmored vehicles. U.S. military vehicles that did not receive new additional armor plating in the United States prior to deployment to U.S. Central Command–tens of thousands–received their "up-armoring" at Camp Arifjan. Additionally, many thousands of service members and contractors pass through Camp Arifjan either on their way to or from Iraq, Afghanistan or other countries in Southwest Asia. The service members deployed to Camp Arifjan are in a variety of different statuses.
context_section_description: Because of the Khobar Towers bombing of 1996 in nearby Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Army decided to replace Camp Doha near Basrah with a base more protected from terrorist attacks.  In July 1999, the Kuwaiti government began constructing Camp Arifjan south of its capital.
caption: Eric Bana in Camp Arifjan
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