What is "firebase"

Usage examples of "firebase".

Her confident older brothers probably would have dressed their wounds, gotten up and headed for Firebase Lily.

He headed north, toward the marine firebase, their only hope of safety.

Frequently he insisted on trying to relate the story of Firebase Ruby, but he always lapsed into terror and grief at the same point he had previously broken off the narrative.

Leaning on his staff, he hobbled along the edge of the bleachers, looking into this and that face as if hoping to find a familiar one, and then, moving to the center of the ring, he began to tell the story of Firebase Ruby.

I retreated into the communications bunker and ordered the corporal in charge to call for an air strike on the coordinates of Firebase Ruby.

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The Ant Farm was a firebase on the eastern edge of the yellow band, and it was from there that Mingollaan artillery specialist not yet twenty-one years oldlobbed shells into an area which the maps depicted in black and white terrain markings.

Whenever he lit a joint he would always offer Mingolla a hit, and Mingolla always refused, feeling that the experience of the firebase would not be enhanced by drugs.

Corps Engineer, Colonel Bob Braggly, commander of the Corps Engineering Brigade, preferred turning the Libby and Mosby Hills into a giant firebase and giving up the center of Richmond to the Posleen.

For that matter, the firebase they are building is the nucleus of an outer fort like we intend for Fortress Forward and will hold almost the whole corps artillery and divisional artillery batteries.

The two who were to attack the first firebase north, present by link rather than personally.

Federation soldiers advanced against the shoulder of the low hill on the north side of the firebase, where the hill dropped to meet the makeshift barricades stretched across the east.

They made runs down the east and west sides of the firebase, directed from the ground by Ian Shrikes.

Spacehawks seemed to come in an endless string, raking the forest on all around the firebase, even strafing the western slope of the ridge.

Bourne was driving fast, but with an economy of movement on the tiller and such skill that the attitude of the jeep did not change even when it shot up the sloping inner face of the berm around the firebase and sailed above the steep outer contour in momentary free flight.