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- I kept a journal while I was there, I have a few 'empty' days in it, but they were mostly days spent around a forward firebase or down-time for us. Manny garcia
- Named after famous artillerymen, the larger firebases also served as the field camps for other combat units.
- A firebase was a far worse punishment than missing Istanbul. Extreme Measures
- The title is derived from the codename for a remote, mountainous military outpost, a "firebase", near the demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating North and South Vietnam and the Laos border, not unlike the notorious Hill 937, or Hamburger Hill. Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
- After dark, the gooks fired a recoilless rifle into the firebase.
- 'We want them to attack us, so we can engage them and destroy them,' says one Special Forces soldier from the US firebase at Spin Boldak, who took part in the initial firefight that led to Operation Mongoose. Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe: Turning in Circles in Afghanistan
- In brief terms the action involved a rifle company action in which the infantry were detailed off to intercept a North Vietnamese Army (NVA) battalion that was approaching a firebase from the North which then got into difficulties because of the sudden appearance of a second NVA unit in its rear. Of New Kit, New Tricks and Cavalry
- Soldiers in a Special Forces support company often are collocated with the units they support in remote firebases in Central and South America.
- He then volenteered for Viet-Nam and was assigned to the 1st marine Div. 5th Marine Regt located at a firebase named An Hoa where he was assigned to the Reactionary Plt assign to patrol the area around Hill 55 and throughout an area named Arizona Valley. Christian dickerson 01
- The cost of the munition may be comparable to a satellite-guided bomb, but the cost of manning a firebase is a lot less than the cost of an air base," Pike said. Archive 2006-11-01
