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Forward Operating Base Loyalty
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>FOB Loyalty was located in what was <a href="/facts/Saddam_Hussein/nHnSodgy">Saddam Hussein's</a> Directorate of Internal Security. A handful of the hardened concrete buildings were damaged by US forces during the initial invasion of Iraq. The main building took three or four precision-guided bombs, and another precision bomb wiped out the house Saddam used when he visited the base.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p><p>The base included a roofed pool, with construction started by Saddam's men and completed by <a href="/facts/Kellogg_Brown_%2526_Root/HQXnuGQP">Kellogg Brown & Root</a> contractors, allowing U.S. armed forces members to use.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> No Army and Air Force Exchange Service Facility existed on the FOB, however a small sundry store existed allowing for basic necessities.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>FOB Loyalty was attacked on April 28, 2008 by improvised Rocket-Assisted Mortars, known as <a href="/facts/Lob_bomb/MHhqReXb">lob bombs</a>, killing a number of servicemen on the base. The base sustained repeated mortar attacks throughout 2008 and 2009.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>Joint Security Station Loyalty was again attacked by a lob bomb on 6 June 2011, killing 5 US servicemembers and injuring 12 others; another servicemember died from his wounds four days later. </p><p>Joint Security Station Loyalty was transferred to full Iraqi Government control on August 29, 2011.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_United_States_Military_installations_in_Iraq/TH4gpj4j">List of United States Military installations in Iraq</a></li></ul> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Forward Operating Base Loyalty. <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Garamone, Jim (Dec 16, 2005). "'Head Fobbit' Works for Quality of Life at Forward Operating Base". American Forces Press Service. Retrieved 18 November 2013. <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/ID/18520/" target="_blank">https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/ID/18520/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Garamone, Jim (Dec 16, 2005). "'Head Fobbit' Works for Quality of Life at Forward Operating Base". American Forces Press Service. Retrieved 18 November 2013. <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/ID/18520/" target="_blank">https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/ID/18520/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Garamone, Jim (Dec 16, 2005). "'Head Fobbit' Works for Quality of Life at Forward Operating Base". American Forces Press Service. Retrieved 18 November 2013. <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/ID/18520/" target="_blank">https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/ID/18520/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Where in the ... (Update, FOB Loyalty & JSS Babalsheikh)". INDCJournal. Retrieved 2010-04-07. <a href="http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/003159.php" target="_blank">http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/003159.php</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"'Stars' fall upon FOB Loyalty; Top generals in Iraq descend on east Baghdad base cam" (Press release). United States Forces - Iraq. 2006-12-28. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved 2010-04-07. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110717175828/http://www.usf-iraq.com/?option=com_content&task=view&id=8580&Itemid=21" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110717175828/http://www.usf-iraq.com/?option=com_content&task=view&id=8580&Itemid=21</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Burns, Robert (July 12, 2008). "AP: 'Lob bombs' biggest worry for US in Baghdad". Fox News. Retrieved March 10, 2011. <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jul12/0,4670,IraqEliteBombers,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jul12/0,4670,IraqEliteBombers,00.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Woislaw, Jonathan (Aug 29, 2011). "'Black Knight' Battery assists in closing Joint Security Station Loyalty, Iraq". US DoD News Release. Retrieved 19 November 2013. <a href="http://www.dvidshub.net/news/77843/black-knight-battery-assists-closing-joint-security-station-loyalty-iraq" target="_blank">http://www.dvidshub.net/news/77843/black-knight-battery-assists-closing-joint-security-station-loyalty-iraq</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>