Sentence examples for a forward operating base from inspiring English sources

A military spokesman at Bagram Air Base near Kandahar, Col. Roger King, said the aircraft was close enough a forward operating base -- only about three miles away -- that soldiers on the ground would have heard or seen enemy fire.

The United States has a forward operating base near Gardez for its search for Taliban and Qaeda renegades, and American money already has improved the living standard of several warlords who, in turn, swear allegiance to the campaign against terrorism.

Baledogle — or "B-dog" as it's colloquially referred to by the Americans in Somalia — has long been a forward operating base on the plains of Southern Somalia, a bumpy, 40-minute propeller plane ride from Mogadishu or a days-long drive through terrain littered with IEDs.

In September 2009 the task of establishing a forward operating base in a remote location within the area of operations was ordered by mission headquarters.

In 2009, she deployed to Iraq again, but this time staying on a forward operating base.

Clerks, cooks and lawyers at a forward operating base in Iraq populate this first novel.

Manning was dispatched to work in intelligence at a forward operating base in Iraq.

JULY 7, 2009 (On flush toilets at a forward operating base) I can't even explain the opulence of these things.

"The original mission was accomplished -- to seize a forward operating base -- and right now we're awaiting further orders," Capt.

"The front in Iraq is any place not on a base camp" or a forward operating base, the report noted.

A third man, Abdul Wali, died in June 2003 in a forward operating base in Kunar Province.