"operating location" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used in business or military contexts to refer to the physical place or facility where operations or activities take place. Example: The company's new operating location in the city has state-of-the-art equipment and a large production floor.
Between 1999 and 2009 the U.S. military maintained a forward operating location (air base) in Manta, mainly for counterdrug and contingency operations.
Then the "forward operating location," as it is called, will be able to provide round-the-clock tracking of activity in Colombia and neighboring countries through a pair of Awacs surveillance planes, among America's most sophisticated, and tankers to refuel them in the air.
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".
Captain Paine was transferred a week ago to an undisclosed "forward operating location".
The U.S. military also utilizes "Forward Operating Location Kasenyi" in Kampala, Uganda.
BK's Central and South American operations began in Mexico in the late 1970s, and by the early 1980s it was operating locations in Caracas, Venezuela, Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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.
"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.
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.
