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What does FOB stand for?

Forward Operation(s) Base


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Its director Ahmad Shahabudin said under the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) Mid-Term Review, a RM40 million forward operation base for the air unit and a regional training centre, also costing RM40, were planned for Sarawak.
Forced to live in remote Forward Operation Bases sometimes for weeks at a time, the soldiers must also survive without electricity, bringing living conditions down to the most basic imaginable.
The 29-year-old had said there were no armoured vehicles at forward operation base Wishtan and helicopters were not widely available.
William, of Craig na Managh, Kilkenny, said: "I went into Kilcreene Hospital in Kilkenny for just one day for a straight forward operation on one of my knees.
I caught up with him last week at Forward Operations Base Thar Allah in Basra during the current Operation Telic 1 3.
But then our camp was hit by Taliban rockets and machine gun fire and after our first Forward Operation Base operation at Musaqala, it started to kick off from there.
The battalion is among the last to be withdrawn from the war-torn Forward Operation Base at Inkerman in Helmand province.
Fourteen forward operations bases were being constructed from the ground up, he said, adding: "Right now we are preparing a bundle of them for the new two-seven police mentoring mission that we have going out in the western part of my area, and also further west to one of the other regional commands.

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