My spot is unique in a lot of ways. The post will eventually be taken over by Iraqis. Almost all the troops here are already Iraqis being trained, and some of the base functions like the dining facilities are already run by Iraqis. Every other base in Iraq as far as I have seen is all US and British servicemen, run by US and British contractors. The force protection of the camp is exclusively Fijian guards. This one on the other hand is all Iraqi and some US and Canadian Special Forces and Italian Police Forces. An american company runs the base, but the base operations is subcrontracted to another US company and the communications and support is further subcontracted to my company. interestingly, many of the employees of the second tier company are not US at all, but mainly brit, irish, norweigian, canadian, etc., and for some reason many of them are expats from Kenya originally. The end result is that the culture is pretty varied.
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