Is this still the unpatched version? The patched version of the file is 15k vs the unpatched one, which is about 63k in size. The patched one seemed to work once in a while, or maybe worked for at least a couple minutes.
A couple months ago we were trying to get the carrier to move on Wake. We never got it working, but the map would load and you could spawn. As you got closer to the carrier, the instant it would show up on the minimap the game would crash. I may be crazy but it seemed like a similar thing here sometimes - if I spawned on blue, it was an instant crash. If I spawned red, I could jump in a helo, but as soon as I got closer to the blue base it was all over. I thought at first that it was because I had put in a Stryker, and EE-9 and Ladas so I took them out but it still happened.
I seem to remember playing this map several years ago so there Must be an answer but I have no idea what happened.
From what you say I imagine a bare landscape with a bunch of Iraqi snipers running around in the open. That doesn't sound like much fun