forward operating bases

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 and ...

“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 fuel ...

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 not ...

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.

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 adjust ...

“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 the ...

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 “US ...

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 at ...

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.

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 (further ...

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, ...

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 bullet ...

"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 release ...

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.

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.

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 against ...

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 in ...

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.

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.

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 while ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 in ...

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, ...

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 the ...

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, ...

(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.