Camp Arifjan, Kuwait

The story behind it

Camp Arifjan is a new $200 million state-of-the-art facility built courtesy of the Kuwaiti government. This new army base has literally risen out of the sand. The base will provide permanent support facilities for American troops in Kuwait, replacing temporary facilities that have been used since the Gulf War.

The Arifjan installation is a joint project between the engineering organizations of USCENTCOM, ARCENT, Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Programs Center [TAC], and Kuwait's Military Engineering Projects (MEP) office, the engineering arm of the Kuwait Ministry of Defense. TAC did major portions of the design, while MEP handled other designs. The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) designed the facilities to support US Army operations, and provided quality assurance services to Kuwait's Defence Ministry during construction of the installation at the Arifjan base which will be used by US forces.