James Eadie is the coordinating surgeon on-call one recent evening at Balad field hospital in Iraq.
Balad field hospital is located within Balad Air Base, about 60 miles north of Baghdad.
Balad Ruz is about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of the provincial capital of Baquba.
Mr Mahfouz knew his subject like a true ibn balad, a son of the Cairo soil.
Hallums left Balad Air Base on a U.S. Air Force C-17, the military said in a statement.
The pits at Balad were at one point open and burning everything from plastics and food to medical waste.
There is also a live video link between Landstuhl and the combat field hospitals in Balad and Bagram, Afghanistan.
The Sunni insurgents in Balad were after him for quite some time.
The operations took place in Mosul, Tarmiya, Bi'aj, Baiji and the Balad area.
His 23-year-old sister, Katie, goes online to find a short military video produced in Balad Ruz, a small village in Diyala province.
Our force operated in the night, so I typically woke in the late morning, and did an hour-long run along the runways at Balad Airbase.
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In later years, incinerators were installed at Balad, but many other bases in Iraq and Afghanistan still use the pits without incinerators to burn garbage.
The emissions, from what are known as "burn pits, " have been a concern for troops, especially those who served at Balad Air Force Base in Iraq.
Former MK and Balad leader Azmi Bishara fled the country in 2007 to avoid being arrested for serving as a Hizbullah spy in the 2006 war.
Abdo is a professional organizer for the Balad political party.
Balad is a predominately Shiite town in Salaheddin province.
Due to sand storms and inclement weather, we were diverted from Mosul to Balad Air Force Base, located at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and home to the descendants of the famed Tuskegee Airmen.
At Balad, we visited the air command center, saw a Predator (unmanned drone), drove MRAPs (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles), visited their hospital, and met with their chaplain who happens to be one of the few rabbis in the Air Force.
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