Camp Renegade is located within Kirkuk Airbase, located in northern Iraq approximately 240 kilometers north of Baghdad on the West side of the city of Kirkuk. It is located 1.6 km West of Kirkuk. This former Iraqi military facility was home to a U.S. Air Force airbase and Army logistical hub (FOB Warrior). The airfield is served by two main runways measuring 9,700 and 8,400 feet. It has one 2,800 m asphalt and one 2,325 m graded earth runway; one 2,900 m runway under construction. This formerly was a major Iraqi Air Force base with support facilities for at least two fighter squadrons. It is strategically located near the Kirkuk oil fields and the Kirkuk refinery and petrochemical plant.

According to the "Gulf War Air Power Survey", Kirkuk had 24 hardened aircraft shelters at the end of the main runway known as "trapezoids" or "Yugos" which were build by Yugoslavian contractors some time prior to 1985.

     Kirkuk Airbase occupies a 9 square kilometer site and is protected by 12 kilometers of security perimeter.

Task Force Ironhorse, 173d Airborne Brigade, secured the oil rich, ethnically diverse city of Kirkuk and surrounding areas in the northern portion of the Task Force area of operations.

April, 2003 the first contingent of the 5th Combat Communications Group communicators stepped off a C-130 on an airbase in Kirkuk, Iraq. The twelve members of this force were to bring state-of-the-art communications to this airbase held by the Iraqi government only weeks before. Only three Air Force aircraft landed previously bringing in the tanker airlift control element.

Combat comm had arrived early in the fight. Kirkuk was devastated in the previous weeks by looters taking everything that could be removed.

     There was no electric power, running water or restrooms, and every glass window in every building was broken. Initial services were provided in a communications cafe on the compound. The cafe instantly became the hub of activity on the base as members of every functional area flocked to the cafe. Also early in the fight, air traffic control and landing systems flowed onto the base. Once sited, a tactical air navigation system was the first system to be set up. In a mere matter of hours the system was up and running through alignments and tests. Following soon after, an MSN-7 mobile tower was set up, providing communications capability to air traffic controllers. Finally, a TPN-19 mobile radar system was sited and installed. In route or air center control was performed across the entire northern part of Iraq. Kirkuk Airbase matured quickly the mission grew every day as northern Iraq increasingly depended on this resupply and air power hub. The communication requirements continually grew and expanded into mission areas not traditionally provided by expeditionary communicators.

December, 2003 Contractors completed a dormitory that will house up to 1,664 airmen in 13 buildings with six to eight people to a room. Each dorm features its own latrine with 14 sinks, eight toilets and eight showers. The units were originally purchased by U.S. Air Forces in Europe and earmarked for construction at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, for Operation Northern Watch.

April, 2005 There were about 1,000 U.S. Air Force and 2,500 Army personnel stationed at Kirkuk. Another 1,500 people, mostly non-Iraqis, were employed at the base.