This article reports that in January 2005, Marine All-Weather Fighter Squadron 224 Bengals deployed 38 aviators, 210 maintainers and all 12 of its two-seat F/A-18D Hornets to Al Asad airbase, 150 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq for a seven-m... D Axe - 《U.s.naval Institute Proceedings...
The Al Asad airbase, previously known as Qadisiyah Airbase, was built in the 1980s with funding from what was then Yugoslavia. The base was named after the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in 636. It was operated by the Iraqi Air Forces (IQAF) until the 1990s. It was then home to a three...