These bases are usually classified as Forward Operating Bases, ... our group did a little "FOB hopping." On Day 5, we departed Bagram Air Base to travel by helicopter to Jalalabad Air Field (JAF).

Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) crash-landed and burst into flames at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle ...

The attack on two Russian air bases could make Russia move its forward operating bases away from the front, the British said. By Nicholas Slayton Published Oct 21, 2023 11:30 AM EDT ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. (April 29, 2019) - During a deployment to Iraq, I was flying UH-60s as part of a medevac company operating out of Forward Operating Base Echo in Diwaniyah. It was common for us ...

Designed as a replacement for the C-141 Starlifter, the C-17 made its maiden flight on Sept. 15, 1991, and the first production model was delivered to Charleston Air Force Base, now known as Joint ...

Ashore, existing air stations and smaller satellite air facilities (Coast Guard Forward Operating Bases), optimized for the smaller MH-65s, will need to be closed, or modernized and updated to ...

Exactly 11 years earlier, on May 14, 2010, I found myself at Forward Operating Base Marja, one of the two bases we flew to this month, for the memorial service of my friend, Sgt. Josh Desforges.

Such a forward operating base would be a powerful signal of commitment to the alliance for both nations as well as providing significant improvements in situational awareness for both the United ...

The U.S. Combatant Command structure, and the forward operating bases it relies upon, have enhanced U.S. security for decades; but with the rapidly changing realities of modern warfare, they are ...

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska - Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, trained in arctic survival, helicopter-hoisting, movement-to-contact and weapon familiarization as part ...

A baseline G550 business jet. Four of these jets are being converted into special mission MC-55A Peregrine aircraft for the RAAF. Alongside their main operating base at RAAF Edinburgh, Canberra is ...