Camp Dogwood

Camp Dogwood

Camp Dogwood is the name of the base camp for the British Black Watch regiment in Iraq, 2004. South of Baghdad.

Camp Dogwood is also the name for a US FOB, further to the north of the original Camp Dogwood, from late 2004 to 2005. Between Fallujah and Karbala. Also known as FOB Dogwood.

It was occupied by Task Force 150th Engineers, Mississippi National Guard and was visited by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Lieutenant General H. Steven Blum, Chief of National Guard Bureau (NGB) and Major General Harold A. Cross, Adjutant General of the Mississippi National Guard November 25, 2005.This base was opened in late 2004 to be a temporary base during the January 2005 Iraqi elections but remained open 2005.

Other bases occupied by the 155th BCT included FOB Kalsu FOB Duke FOB Iskandariyah and FOB Hit

External links

* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/al-iskandaryah.htm Camp Dogwood] from Globalsecurity.org
* Mississippi Governor Visits FOB Dogwood [http://www.ngms.state.ms.us/1-155inf/archived/old/archive/links/military_2005112601.html] FOB Dogwood was occupied by the 1st Armored Division DISCOM from May 2003 to Nov 2003. This also included the 123rd MSB and elements of the 501ST MP's.


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