Mohammed Al-Ahmad Kuwait Naval Base is a Kuwaiti Navy base on the eastern coast of

Kuwait Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia and the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. It is situated in the northern edge of the Arabian Peninsula at the head of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Kuwait ...

. It is named after Mohammed Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the first Defense Minister of Kuwait. The base is also used by the

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and

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. A main deployment group of the US Navy, the United States Fifth Fleet using the name Camp Patriot, it is used by US Military and Kuwaiti Forces to conduct military operations and training exercises. The naval base also has a heliport with the ICAO designator OKNB.

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Naval installations Military installations of Kuwait Military installations of the United States in Kuwait {{Kuwait-stub

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