First USO in Iraq opens
Military • February 2008 • Views: 410
The facility — which offers video games, Internet and computer services and telephone exchanges — received the name Mortaritaville because the base has had a difficult history of coming under routine mortar and rocket fire from Sunni insurgents.
The Balad USO facility joins hundreds of others worldwide that have been established since United Services Organization began operating in 1941, shortly before the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War II.