End of US military occupation of Iraq. Vacate 250 military bases, 80 000 soldiers, 55 000 civilian contractors, 100 000 vehicles. The military is closing the main north-south highway to civilian traffic every night for the next year so that an uninterrupted column of vehicles can move to a logistics base in Kuwait. A total of 31 million pieces of kit will be transported in this way, including everything from ammunition cases to tables from the mess halls.