Today, over 60,000 military and civilians work on board the base.
Yes, those civilians and troops working in Iraq need security to do their work.
There is no precise number of foreign civilians working in Iraq.
The number of civilians working with the armed forces is to be reduced by about a third, to 85,000.
In addition to the 3,000 military personnel at the base, 1,000 civilians worked there, too.
Those who died were unarmed civilians working to help put Iraq back together.
But 7,000 civilians were working at the base as recently as July 1993, and the number is already down 1,200.
At peak capacity in 1945, over 2,400 civilians and military personnel worked there.
But they had no jurisdiction over civilians working alongside their military counterparts.
Approximately 900 civilians, contractors and Soldiers work at the headquarters.