11.   One officer suggested that the accident and the rescue took place in what amounted to a forward operating base already inside the country.

12.   That is why the marines are now establishing what Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Monday called a forward operating base near Kandahar.

13.   The city could also potentially provide a forward base of operations for any U.S. special forces that might operate within Afghanistan.

14.   The forward base, lying on a barren dusty plain, serves as a refueling place for the helicopters and a base for supplies and ammunition.

15.   The Japanese, awarded the Palaus from Germany after World War I, turn Peleliu into a forward military base.

16.   The Pentagon delegation reportedly ended its talks in Islamabad with an agreement to use three Pakistani airstrips as forward operational bases for a U.S. offensive in Afghanistan.

17.   Their offices, ensconced in tastefully restored Spanish colonial mansions, are the forward bases for a new revolution that is altering the face of their nation.

18.   These days it serves as the forward base of the war against the rebels.

19.   They may also try to reduce political problems for Pakistan by establishing a forward base inside Afghanistan.

20.   U.S. officials also envision the city, which has an airport, as a potential forward base for U.S. military forces, now stationed across the border in Uzbekistan.