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Little is publicly known about the base [where the three US troops were killed]. But it includes logistics support and there are 350 U.S. Army and Air Force tro
by adolph 3y ago
Little is publicly known about the base [where the three US troops were killed]. But it includes logistics support and there are 350 U.S. Army and Air Force troops at the base.
Tower 22 is near Al Tanf garrison, which is located across the border in Syria, and which houses a small number of U.S. troops. Tanf had been key in the fight against Islamic State and has assumed a role as part of a U.S. strategy to contain Iran's military build-up in eastern Syria.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-is-tower-22-site-attack-us-troops-jordan-2024-01-28/ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-is-tower-22-s...
- adolph 3y agoLooks like a pretty nice spot with 9 rotary wing pads and a maintenance shed, basketball court, forty barracks and over a hundred honeymoon suites. It is unclear to me when the Google maps photos were made. Mapcarta shows a less well equiped base and Google Earth has part of the base blurred out. https://maps.app.goo.gl/9c7XKvkZndm2xUCf7 https://maps.app.goo.gl/9c7XKvkZndm2xUCf7