[angkor]

Catfish: The helicopter transport facility (actually a plywood shack) at Balad/Anaconda. If you've moved from one place to another inside Iraq, you've likely gone through Catfish at least once. It has cold bottles of water, a TV, unusable telephones, a whiteboard for flight tracking, and tents with cots for those who get stuck there with no available flights (frequent, and can last for days). It is unknown whether Catfish has any other "real" name.

[TADSLOS]

185th Avn Bde, MS ARNG. I know the guy who coined the phrase "Catfish Air".

Catfish Air