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Ghana News Agency
April 19, 2018
Accra, April 19, GNA - Ashanti Forward Operating Base (FOB) of Operation Vanguard on Wednesday, April 18, conducted operations at illegal mining sites in ... Colonel Amoah-Ayisi, the Commander of the Joint police/military Task Force of Operation (JTF) Vanguard revealed this after the operation andÃÂ ...
Defence Connect
April 16, 2018
“One of our early objectives was to provide rapidly deployable utility scale PV generators to improve the self-sufficiency of Defence's deployed forward operating bases," Moore explained. "Diesel consumption related to the provision of electricity can account for up to 70 per cent of deployed forces fuelÃÂ ...
New Vision
April 14, 2018
AMISOM DSRCC urges military commanders to implement transition plan ... AMISOM is expected to gradually reduce the number of its troops serving in Somalia and reconstitute its forward operating bases with the cooperation of the Somali national security forces to ensure national security is notÃÂ ...
The Killeen Daily Herald
April 14, 2018
Perna said in the last 15 years the Army has been focused on the near-term problems of sustaining forward operating bases in Afghanistan and Iraq where ... Perna said the key to doing this was understanding the changing dynamics and adjust from forward operating base logistics to manuever logistics.
C4ISRNet
April 13, 2018
The military's use of biometric scanning through facial recognition software, license plate “grabbers,” UAV and aerostat surveillance, and radar and ... For starters, analysts at the tactical level could determine the latitude, longitude and radius of the area of interest around a forward operating base and adjustÃÂ ...
The National
April 12, 2018
“That means the United States and its allies will need to hit a range of targets that are both military and which are non-military targets that are significant to the regime” Mr Heras told The National. “These targets could include forward operating bases, military airbases, intelligence buildings, and possibly theÃÂ ...
Breaking Defense
March 27, 2018
Hiding in plain sight also means moving away from the bulky, easily detected, easily targeted communications infrastructure the military got used to at its Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan and Iraq. In Gallagher's words, you don't want everything in your system to be a “big green box” labeled “USÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 27, 2018
The whole system is mounted on a rugged Polaris MRZR, a small all-terrain vehicle, making it ideal for protecting convoys and forward operating bases. “Basically, we're putting a laser on a dune buggy to knock drones out of the sky,” as summed up by Dr. Ben Allison, director of high energy lasers atÃÂ ...
Task & Purpose
March 24, 2018
And then just one day later, “reporter” Jim Garamone, who works for the Pentagon's official DoD News, knocked out this even higher-quality bullshit from a forward operating base in ... Joe Dunford told reporters traveling with him 'that from a military dimension, I am enthusiastic about the prospects for 2018.
ReliefWeb
March 17, 2018
The Government of Papua New Guinea (GoPNG) through the Emergency Controllers Office, has established Forward operating bases as well as Logistics ... A system to request and coordinate the tasking of military and private sector assets has been put in place by the logistics coordination team (furtherÃÂ ...
WAVE 3
March 16, 2018
In 2009, her son and four other American Soldiers were killed in Mosul, Iraq. Lee was riding in a convoy just outside the U.S. Military's Forward Operating Base -- Marez, when a bomb went off. Woods' vehicle was closest to that of the suicide bombers. The blast also killed two Iraqis and left a 60-foot crater,ÃÂ ...
Green Bay Press Gazette
March 16, 2018
Henry, an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist at Aurora BayCare Medical Center, is a long way from where he was 14 years ago, when he worked as an orthopedic surgeon at Forward Operating Base Speicher near Tikrit, Iraq. There, among the more routine injuries, he also treated bulletÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
March 15, 2018
"In January 2009, Farekh helped to build a vehicle-borne, improvised explosive device (VBIED) that was used in an attack on Forward Operating Base Chapman (FOB Chapman), a US military installation that served as the base for the US Provincial Reconstruction Team in Khost, Afghanistan," the releaseÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Public Radio News
March 14, 2018
In this Sept. 8, 2011 photo, U.S. Marine dog handler Sgt. Mark Behl, of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force K9 unit, from Cottage Grove, Wis, sits on a cot cleaning his rifle as his military working dog Fuli rests on another cot, at Forward Operating Base Jackson, in Sangin, Helmand province, Afghansiatn.
Wisconsin Public Radio News
March 14, 2018
In this Sept. 8, 2011 photo, U.S. Marine dog handler Sgt. Mark Behl, of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force K9 unit, from Cottage Grove, Wis, sits on a cot cleaning his rifle as his military working dog Fuli rests on another cot, at Forward Operating Base Jackson, in Sangin, Helmand province, Afghansiatn.
KTVQ Billings News
March 7, 2018
September 14-15, 2015 - A Pentagon spokesperson says the Russian military appears to be attempting to set up a forward operating base in western Syria, in the area around the port city of Latakia. Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia is supporting the Syrian government in its fight againstÃÂ ...
AOL
March 7, 2018
Jared Kushner, senior advisor and son-in-law to U.S. President Donald Trump, meets with service members at a forward operating base near Qayyarah ... Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, senior advisor of President Donald Trump, arrive aboard Air Force One at Warsaw military airport inÃÂ ...
Charleston Post Courier
March 7, 2018
To predictable arguments that 18-year-olds in the military are permitted to carry serious weaponry, we should never confuse the requirements of ... Rambo-ing the perimeter is only part of the fix. Whither the fob? Here in Washington, everyone passes through some level of security in the course of a day.
AOL
March 7, 2018
The military, concerned about conflict with a more capable foe, is looking to ensure the "golden hour" for wounded troops. .... work on a wounded American soldier in the trauma unit at Sunday Olawande Memorial Hospital on forward operating base Salerno November 22, 2009 in Khost, Afghanistan.
The American Conservative
March 6, 2018
One explanation for the outsized role of Georgia's inexperienced military was their immunity from Washington's oversight and U.S. public opinion. But the more relevant reason had little to do with Afghanistan. Tbilisi naively hoped Georgia could earn U.S. protection in future conflicts with Russia whileÃÂ ...
THISDAY Newspapers
March 6, 2018
Brig. Gen. Kevin Aligbe, Commander of the new Brigade had also in his opening remarks, thanked the COAS for supporting the activities of the brigade, adding that the last one year of the brigade witnessed the beginning of the construction of Forward Operating Base (FOB) at Agge Deep Seaport site.
AllAfrica.com
March 6, 2018
Brig. Gen. Kevin Aligbe, Commander of the new Brigade had also in his opening remarks, thanked the COAS for supporting the activities of the brigade, adding that the last one year of the brigade witnessed the beginning of the construction of Forward Operating Base (FOB) at Agge Deep Seaport site.
Newsweek
March 4, 2018
Military dogs that served in live-saving missions in overseas combat zones were mistreated when they returned to the U.S., according to a new Defense ... 22nd Infantry Regiment walks with a sniffer dog at Afghan National Army (ANA) Forward Operating Base Muqor in Ghazni province on May 28, 2013.
Business Insider
February 23, 2018
The Trump administration will keep the US military in Syria and Iraq indefinitely without new congressional authorization, according to the New York Times ... an M320 Grenade Launcher Module (GLM) at the weapons range at Forward Operating Base Thunder in Paktia province, Afghanistan, Oct. 18, 2013.
Military Times
February 15, 2018
Service members and private military contractors who worked around “burn pits” downrange, and later suffered from lung and respiratory issues, may soon get ... The case stemmed from claims by Veronica Landry, who worked as a morale, welfare and recreation specialist at two forward operating bases inÃÂ ...
Tuscaloosa News
December 31, 1999
Nuckols, who was born in Birmingham and raised in Tuscaloosa, is a 1992 Distinguished Military Graduate of the University of Alabama, where he ... (Mech) Military Transition Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Operation Iraqi Freedom; Brigade Commander, 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, FOB Gamberi,ÃÂ ...
Breaking Defense
December 31, 1999
But the mini-drone threat is a high priority for the Pentagon, along with anti-aircraft defenses in general. Daesh has used commercial drones to drop hand grenades. Hezbollah has used similar setups to strike Daesh. The Iraqi police and military have used commercial drones for similar purposes. And theÃÂ ...
Department of Defense
December 31, 1999
Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, right, and Army Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Troxell, senior enlisted advisor to the chairman, have a conversation aboard a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter after a visit to Train Advise Assist Command East at Forward Operating Base Gamberi, Afghanistan,ÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 31, 1999
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) "I believe the 2nd Amendment was made for civilians to have military style rifles in the home," said Austin Skousen, 28, an AR-15 owner and collector ... A soldier standing post with one of these weapons, at a forward operating base, does so as a defensive measure.
WRAL.com
February 20, 2018
... 2012 when he was deployed to Afghanistan and assigned to Forward Operating Base Salerno for a few months. As soldiers were preparing to move to a base in Kabul, Graff accepted $300,000 to $350,000 in cash to let an Afghani into a secure section of FOB Salerno so he could steal military equipmentÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
February 16, 2018
If correct, this facility would join its recently opened naval and military base in Djibouti as part of a growing network of Chinese naval and air bases across ... India also has eyes on building a forward operating base at the other end of the Indian Ocean, on Assumption Island in the Seychelles, at the northernÃÂ ...
The Interpreter
February 15, 2018
If correct, this facility would join its recently opened naval and military base at Djibouti as part of a growing network of Chinese naval and air bases across ... India also has eyes on building a forward operating base at the other end of the Indian Ocean, on Assumption Island in the Seychelles, at the northernÃÂ ...
Military Times
February 13, 2018
For those still scrambling, Military Times went to the experts: A half-dozen veterans who've transitioned into the world of romance writing. ... Army Staff Sgt. Pedro Chavez reads an over-sized Valentine's Day card from his wife while on Forward Operating Base Price in Helmand provice, Afghanistan, in 2012.
New York Magazine
February 13, 2018
Even if Assad is able to restore full military control over the entirety of Syria, political control is another story. Thus, to Iran, Syria is a badly damaged puppet that nonetheless helps it solidify its influence in the Shiite Arab heartland; from Israel's point of view, it's a forward operating base in Iran's campaign toÃÂ ...
KTUU.com
February 2, 2018
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (KTUU) - Across Afghanistan, at different U.S. military outposts, there are memorials dedicated to the men and women who sacrificed everything while serving their country since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Stars and Stripes
February 1, 2018
Glowing squares the size of football fields around Mosul, Iraq's second largest city that was liberated from the Islamic State group last year, could mark forward operating bases where personnel have limited space to work out. It was reported Wednesday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had ordered aÃÂ ...
LADbible
January 31, 2018
In a series of images, Ruser pointed out Strava user activities potentially related to US military forward operating bases in Afghanistan, Turkish military patrols in Syria, and a possible guard patrol in the Russian operating area of Syria. It was no time at all before other researchers followed suit, managing toÃÂ ...
The Interpreter
January 30, 2018
This would be China's second base in the Indian Ocean and indicate that it may be moving fast to establish a network of military bases across the region. ... While Jiwani might be too exposed for a major Chinese fleet base, locating a forward operating base there, along with China's facilities in Djibouti andÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
January 30, 2018
The military gave her family what the Philippines couldn't: regular income, health care and insurance, along with the opportunity to become U.S. citizens. ... Today, Dulce cooks at FOB Kitchen five days a week, covering dinner and weekend brunch, putting her own slightly modern spin on Filipino food.
WIRED
January 30, 2018
After fitness data service Strava revealed bases and patrol routes with an online "heat map," the US military is reexamining its security policies for the ... In a series of images, Ruser pointed out Strava user activities potentially related to US military forward operating bases in Afghanistan, Turkish militaryÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
January 27, 2018
The construction of the Elphinstone Road FOB is in its fourth stage — the setting up of the Bailey bridge — following which the bridge will be commissioned. Construction on the ... It also took time to figure out also how military equipment could be adapted for public use,” added Mohan. Bailey bridges, whichÃÂ ...
Breaking Defense
January 25, 2018
It's all part of a wider effort to refocus the military from counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and Iraq to what the new National Defense Strategy calls “long-term ... on base, but most troops spent most of their time in mostly secure Forward Operating Bases with showers, electricity, air conditioning and hot food.
DefenseNews.com
January 25, 2018
The deputy secretary also noted the role Turkey's Konya air base serves as a forward-operating base for NATO airborne warning and control system surveillance aircraft. With an eye to the East, Gottemoller commented on NATO's increased naval presence in the Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean, theÃÂ ...
The Missourian
January 25, 2018
Tickets are still available for the third annual Military Ball, hosted by the Washington NJROTC Boosters. The dinner will take place Saturday, Feb. ... From Fort Campbell, she deployed with the 759th Forward Surgical Team to Forward Operating Base Fenty, Afghanistan. Upon returning, she took over as theÃÂ ...
Independent Community Newspaper
January 24, 2018
"I felt so sad that this beautiful fob has sat hidden away in a drawer for so long and was not honouring Corp McMillan and his service." "I am delighted to have been able to return Corporal Sam McMillan's very special fob medallion to his granddaughter Laurel. My dad Les would be so proud. "My partingÃÂ ...
Otago Daily Times
January 22, 2018
An engraved fob lost in the Mataura River has been returned to the family of Corporal Sam McMillan, the ex-serviceman who owned it. Pictured (from left) are Brett ... Awarded a Military Medal for bravery, Sam McMillan lied when he enlisted — claiming to be his elder brother William. "Using his brother'sÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
January 10, 2018
Former Vice President Joe Biden said he thinks toxins found in smoke from burning waste at U.S. military installations in Iraq and at other facilities abroad could .... Left: A U.S. Army soldier watches bottled water that had gone bad burn in a burn-pit at Forward Operating Base Azzizulah in Maiwand District,ÃÂ ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
January 4, 2018
Lawyers on both sides warn that the outcome could have far-reaching effects on the military and those who help fight our wars. Kallie was a Belgian malinois ... “Camp Mike Spann was a forward operating base situated in Afghanistan on the front lines of American hostilities. Its operations were designed toÃÂ ...
WUNC
December 27, 2017
North Carolina-based RTI International is developing something that could reduce the number of troops injured while supporting forward operating bases: a new latrine system. Over 60 percent of U.S. troops injured in Iraq and Afghanistan occurred among personnel supporting bases in combat zones.
FederalNewsRadio.com
December 26, 2017
But other reports show that the facility shortfalls aren't isolated to Al Udeid, and that similar construction and maintenance deficiencies have been a problem at other overseas bases that function as relatively permanent military installations, not temporary forward operating bases. A June report found someÃÂ ...
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