You mention a "former tank range with depleted uranium".
Hello Folks: I served across the road from FOB HAMMER from May to October 2009 at the Besmaya Combat Range Complex (formally Butler Range). My team relocated to FOB Constitution in Abu Ghraib. We frequently used the services (DFAC, PX, Shops and Medical) at FOB HAMMER, almost daily. Besmaya and HAMMER were part of an Iraqi Army Range complex and Headquarters for one of the Republican Guard Air Defense Brigades during the '91 Gulf War and '03 Iraqi War. On Besmaya's training ranges, there are several occupied tank pits with destroyed Iraqi equipment (T-72 Tanks and ZSU ADA tracks) still exist. My team had a picture taken on top of one of the tanks. ?? Depleted uranium - Yes - from the A-10s that destroyed the Iraqi weapon systems. There was also a small farmhouse on the west-side of Besmaya, reportedly where hundreds of bodies were found laying around - all wounded Iraqi soldiers who succumbed to their injuries. On the far east-side of Besmaya were swamplands, also reportedly full of bodies (civilian and military) shortly after the '03 war. If you followed the Besmaya's interior Range Road east, one will hit a smooth-surface asphault 2-lane highway, complete with curbing and sewage pipes. It was very strange, this beautiful, 3 to 5K boulevard (not one pothole existed) out in the middle of no-where. The highway led to an incompletely developed, yet modern-looking sub-division. Nice streets laid out into neighborhoods, a large pit (?lwater feature?) with small pic-nic shelters, a small shopping plaza (all destroyed) and a large governmental-looking building (we speculated a fire or police department). Along the way to the sub-division were destroyed military equipment. We were told that FOB HAMMER (east end) was built on the foundation of the old AAA Brigade Headquarters buildings, and that much of the Iraqi junk (destroyed military equipment) was hauled over the the HAMMER Burn Pit. Not sure if any of this helps at all, but Besmaya was an interesting place.