What does FOB stand for?

Forward Operating Base

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Corporal Jonathan Horne, aged 28, from Walsall, and Rifleman Joe Murphy, aged 18, from Castle Bromwich , both of the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, were killed in action near Forward Operating Base Wishtan, Sangin on July 10 2009.

The West Midlands victims

The exercise is presently in the Mobilization Phase which includes activation of Forward Operating Bases, Dispersal Sites and Command and Control Centres.

Pakistan Navys maritime exercise SEASPARK 2009 kicks off

16 attack at Forward Operating Base Warhorse that killed another soldier and left nine injured.

US base in Iraq honors killed Oregon soldier

The Forward Operating Base in Salerno was the apparent target of yesterdays strike but the rockets fell outside the compound,damaging a local mosque, a US military statement said.

Three dead in Khost rocket attack

Agno, 29, Pearl City, Hawaii; died Friday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, of wounds suffered April 27 from a noncombat incident at Forward Operating Base Olsen in Samarra; assigned to the 325th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ

The soldier was killed instantly while he was on a foot patrol alongside the Afghan army near Forward Operating Base Keenan, northeast of Gereshk, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

Soldier killed in Afghanistan to be named

An MoD spokeswoman said: "The soldier was taking part in a reassurance foot patrol alongside the Afghan National Army in the vicinity of Forward Operating Base Keenan.

MoD to name soldier killed in explosion

The exercise was held near Forward Operating Base Falcon in southern Baghdad's Rashid district and was designed to teach the Iraqi security forces how to disarm explosive devices and deal with scenarios in which devices have already detonated.

The 752d Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, attached to the 1st ...