Camp Eggers is a military base in Kabul, Afghanistan.[1] located near the US Embassy and the President of Afghanistan's Palace. The camp is named after Capt. Daniel W. Eggers, a US soldier from the 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) along with three other soldiers on 29 May 2004 near Kandahar.
[edit] Overview
Canadian Lt. Haley Mooney sorting donations sent from the United States to Camp Eggers, Kabul.
Camp Eggers is used by all U.S. military branches as well as other coalition partners (including Australian Army, Canadian Army, New Zealand, Romania, and Germany), and was home to the Combined Forces Command - Afghanistan (CFC-A), and Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A). CFC-A was disestablished in early-2007 while CSTC-A continues to train the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police and are assisting with provincial reconstruction projects such as school reconstruction and road repair.
[edit] Noted personnel
- Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, former Commander, Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan.
- Lt. Gen David Barno, first Commander of Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan.
[edit] References
- ^ Welcome to Camp Eggers, US Department of Defense, Central Command
- Eikenberry interviewed by Anderson Cooper, 11 September 2006.[citation needed]
[edit] External links
