As Sayliyah Army Base

As Sayliyah Army Base (Arabic:قاعدة السيلية العسكرية) is a United States Army base located in Al Sailiya, a suburb outside Doha, Qatar. U.S. Central Command uses the base to preposition material bound for use in Iraq and Afghanistan; it is the largest U.S. Army prepositioning site in the world.[1] It stores enough equipment for a U.S. Army armored brigade: more than 150 M-1 Abrams tanks, 116 Bradley fighting vehicles, and 112 other armored personnel carriers.[1][2] The base was established in the year 2000.[3]

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during a town meeting at As Sayliyah Army Base in 2002

References
  1. United States. Army Central. Area Support Group - Qatar (January 2018). "Resource Guide for Families at Camp As Sayliyah" (PDF).
  2. des Roches, David (June 8, 2017). "A Base is More than Buildings: The Military Implications of the Qatar Crisis". War on the Rocks. A second military facility, not generally discussed, is also present in Qatar – Camp as Sayliyah. This is a forward positioning logistics facility. It has the equipment for an entire U.S. Army armored brigade, and a number of warehouses. It was essential to American operations in Iraq in 2003.
  3. globalsecurity.org: "Camp As Sayliyah"
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