Getty Images A U.S. soldier is dead after a non-combat vehicle ... U.S. defense relationships in Southwest Asia, at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, when the incident took place on Thursday.

Fifteen to 20 kilometers from the Iraq-Kuwaiti border, a large U.S. military buildup has begun. Thousands of young men and women, U.S. Army soldiers, are putting up barracks and hunkering down.