Definition of firebase
: a secured site from which field artillery can lay down interdicting fire
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Their first stop was Landing Zone Gator, his old firebase.
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The small detachment of Marines deployed to Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province have pushed outside their original constellation of outposts and reopened an old firebase bordering several violent districts, Marines familiar with operations said.
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Ron came to me and asked for permission to go to a distant firebase by jeep to say goodbye to some of his friends.
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The three were slain Saturday on a firebase in the Pekka Valley near Nangahar’s Achin district where U.S. forces have been battling Islamic State militants for months.
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The software developer just makes sure the clients are referencing the same piece of data, and all the data transport happens automatically.’ Firebase doesn’t just move information from one client to another.
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1955
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