41.   Used for close ground support, they have a very short range and would need a forward base if deployed in Bosnia.

42.   He said he hoped to get the aid distributed from Kisangani, which would act as a forward base, nearer to North and South Kivu.

43.   A forward operating base for US troops has come under rocket attack in eastern Afghanistan, a US military spokesman said Friday.

44.   To turn them back the Americans secretly used Funafuti as a forward base and constructed an airfield by simply digging out a third of the main islet of Fongafale.

45.   Khankala served as the main forward base for Russian ground troops and helicopter gunships in their attempt to crush the Chechen independence drive.

46.   Syed Hamid said the present regional naval base in Kiansam, Labuan, off Sabah, would be converted into a logistics depot and forward base for operational purposes.