page_title: Camp Victory
section_title: Living conditions
hierarchical_section_title: Camp Victory / Living conditions
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of the trailers in Camp Victory, Baghdad, the so-called "Dodge City North"
context_page_description: Camp Victory was the primary component of the Victory Base Complex which occupied the area surrounding the Baghdad International Airport. The Al-Faw Palace, which served as the headquarters for the Multi-National Corps – Iraq, was located on Camp Victory. Camp Victory itself lay approximately 5 kilometers from BIAP.
  Other Camps that made up the Victory Base Complex included Camp Liberty, Camp Striker, and Camp Slayer. On December 1, 2011, Camp Victory, under agreement with the Iraqi Government in 2008, was handed over by the United States to the Iraqis.
context_section_description: Camp Victory was named after V Corps, also called Victory Corps, from Heidelberg, Germany. They began to occupy the area in April 2003. Camp Victory had several living support areas; Freedom Village, Dodge Cities North and South, Omaha Beach, Audie Murphy LSAs, Red Leg LSA, the Brickyard along with building 51F, which is commonly known as "Area 51". There were also two smaller living areas reserved for government contractors, as well as a third for employees of an Iraqi contracting company.
  Camp Victory contained the Sports Oasis dining facility (DFAC) and the Coalition Cafe. There were also several chain restaurants, located near the PX on Camp Liberty; including a Pizza Hut, a Subway, a Cinnabon, a Burger King, a Taco Bell, and a Green Beans coffee cafe.  Additionally a new bowling center were opened to the northwest of Camp Victory main and a Turkish restaurant/hookah/coffee bar near Lost Lake just east of Dodge City North.
  Camp Victory had a small AAFES shoppette south of the Sports Oasis DFAC with an additional Green Beans Cafe, Pizza Hut, Barber Shop, and Turkish novelty goods stores.  Two basketball courts also occupy this area and one has been converted to a soccer court.  Separating the contairized housing units or CHUs and the eating establishments was "Tumlin Field" a popular spot for American football pickup games. The Tumlin Field sign read "Tumlin Field, cause not all the fighting is done outside the wire".
caption: The trailers of Dodge City North. The tall structure in the distance is a Saddam-era bat house.
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