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.
The forward operating base is reportedly used for US drone attacks on suspected militants in neighbouring Pakistan.
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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.
Earlier this month, a suicide bomber killed seven CIA agents at America's Forward Operating Base Chapman near the eastern Afghan city of Khost.
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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One female soldier broke into the Brigade Medical Supply Office at Forward Operating Base Shank and stole expired prescription narcotics including morphine, Percocet, Valium, fentanyl and lorazepam, the documents show.
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.
One fatal overdose occurred in June 2010 at Forward Operating Base Blessing, after a soldier asked another soldier to buy black tar opium from a local Afghan outside the base's entry control point.
According to Western intelligence officials quoted in the reports, Humam al-Balawi called his handlers last week to arrange a meeting at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, where he said he would relay urgent information about Zawahiri.
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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Rehman -- now buried in a secret North Waziristan location, Ehsan said -- was wanted by the United States on suspicion of being involved in the December 2009 suicide bomb attack that killed seven CIA employees at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, according to a publication by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center.
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