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Rather, we need discreet operating locations, under local sovereignty, that the Pentagon helps to maintain.
The new facilities, which in military parlance are known as forward operating locations, reflect a deeper change in American relations with countries in the region.
Together, officials here said, those three bases, known in military jargon as F.O.L.'s, or forward operating locations, helped seize $1.1 billion worth of drugs in 2007, with the focus of the seizures on smuggling out of Colombia.
"Without operating locations on the continent, I.S.R. capabilities would be curtailed, potentially endangering U.S. security," General Ham said in a statement to the House Armed Services Committee last March.
We have full-time counsel on site here, and we reach out in every one of those operating locations.
A 2010 report by the Government Accountability Office mentioned forward operating locations in Isiolo and Manda Bay, both in Kenya. .
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Between 1999 and 2009 the U.S. military maintained a forward operating location (air base) in Manta, mainly for counterdrug and contingency operations.
They only speak of it in the most general terms: "There is an operating location near Groom Dry Lake". That's the Air Force's official position.
The "forward operating location," as the American post is called, came into existence in 1999 in a 10-year deal with Ecuador after the Pentagon and Panama's government failed to agree on the use of Howard Air Force Base in Panama.
There is no name for the operating location near Groom Lake".
There is no name for the operating location near Groom Lake". Hiding behind that fiction allowed government officials to avoid accountability for these unlawful operations.
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