Military base
A military base is where a country keeps its armed forces.[1] It could be an air base, an army base, or a navy base. It could be inside its home country, in a different, friendly country, or in a country being invaded or occupied.
Naming[change | change source]
The name used generally refers to the type of military that uses the base.
A military base may go different names, such as the following:
- Armory
- Arsenal
- Barracks
- Casern
- Combat outpost (COP)
- DoDAAC
- Facility
- Fire support base (FSB, FB)
- Forward Operating Base (FOB)
- Fortification
- Garrison
- Installation
- Joint base
- Magazine
- Main Operating Base (MOB)
- Marine Corps base
- Military airbase, airfield or field
- Military camp
- Naval air station
- Naval base
- Naval dockyard
- Outpost (OP)
- Presidio
- Proving ground
- Reservation
- Shipyard or yard
- Station
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Thackrah, J. R. (April 3, 2018). "Military base definition". Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved April 3, 2018.