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forward operating base

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An airfield used to support tactical operations without establishing full support facilities. The base may be used for an extended time period. Support by a main operating base will be required to provide backup support for a forward operating base. Also called FOB.


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In support of Operation Mountain Fury, the US advisors and 15 ANA Soldiers moved to a forward operating base (FOB) near the Pakistani border where the anti-Coalition military (ACM) was active.
Rusty Wilson is a professional journalist who wrote columns for the Orange County Register giving his firsthand observations of the conditions and people he met and worked with in Iraq while serving on a Forward Operating Base as a Morale, Recreation and Recreation staffer in support of the American troops.
Although 16 soldiers from his forward operating base in Iraq have been killed, and a good friend of Schol's had his legs blown off there, Schol said he enjoys his job in the Army, in which he recently re-enlisted.
 
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