Dominic Spahn is at a forward operating base in eastern Baghdad, remembering his friend, Pfc.
It was only about five miles from our Forward Operating Base (FOB) to the town of Hit.
Consider Salim Khan, a dishwasher at a forward operating base in the volatile Iraqi province of Diyala.
There was no electricity or running water on Forward Operating Base Kushamond.
Twenty-four hours earlier, the last of Forward Operating Base Kushamond, a sprawling home to a company of American soldiers, had been bulldozed flat.
The 22-year-old from Pennsylvania was returning to his forward operating base after a routine patrol when shrapnel from the explosive device ripped into his Humvee.
He's currently at a forward operating base in eastern Baghdad.
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The helicopters are monitored as they fly autonomously to a forward operating base, where a marine controller on the ground takes over using a portable device to direct the drop.
Almost every forward operating base has a decontamination station.
The new revelations about the battle that engulfed Forward Operating Base Keating in Kamdesh District are a further indication of how pinned down and outmanned the troops were at the remote outpost.
During their tour, Capt Walter Barrie, 41, was shot dead by a member of the ANA in a so-called "green-on-blue" attack as he played football at Forward Operating Base Shawqat, in Helmand Province.
Such a grid is being tested at the army's model forward operating base (FOB) in Fort Irwin, California, along with prototypes of a mobile, hybrid power station that combines solar panels and wind turbines with a conventional generator.
The Ministry of Defence said the soldiers were part of a patrol travelling along Route 611 between Forward Operating Base Ouellette and Patrol Base Lashkar Gah Durai in Nahr-e-Saraj when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.
According to federal prosecutors, on or about January 1, 2012, U.S. Army Sergeant Regionald Dixon, 30, and another co-conspirator sergeant participated in a scheme to steal JP8 jet fuel from Forward Operating Base Fenty, which is located near Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
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