#FireBases
50. Helo rides into firebases = 10/10 experience
August 3, 2026 at 1:34 AM
notifications are a scam by big google to sell more firebases
May 14, 2024 at 5:45 AM
More parts of the city becoming openly fortified, shipping containers being stacked as perimeters.

The architecture of prisons, colonization and military firebases.

www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
Oakland turns to shipping containers to tackle long-standing encampment issues
The project aims to resolve a years-long encampment problem that has plagued the area, despite numerous attempts to clear the land.
www.cbsnews.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
why do people keep making publicly accessible firebases
August 28, 2026 at 2:39 AM
The US lost in vietnam because the NVA could fly around like the green goblin and throw grenades at their firebases, I saw it in a videogames
September 13, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Inherent Resolve has had 23 combat fatalities in ten years and is now just a handful of JSOC guys hanging out on firebases in the desert, Odyssey Dawn and Prosperity Guardian had zero apiece, and the Poaster Industrial Complex treats it all like it's Southeast Asia in 1970
December 23, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Iran's TBM strike on Al Asad is still stuck in my mind. At a minimum it feels like we should go back and compare OIF/OEF COPs and FOBs to Vietnam era firebases and ask "Why do these look so different?"
January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
the funniest comment I saw about this was someone asking why Halo Infinite didn't have a thing where the firebases you captured would get attacked by the Banished and it's like, bro there's an entire meme (another settlement needs your help) about why people would have complained about this
January 21, 2026 at 10:15 PM
The IDF will set up firebases to protect the "illegal" settler who will follow. A decade from now, if not sooner, it will become part of Israel.
April 20, 2026 at 12:37 PM
oh it's a perfectly normal phrase qua phrase, it's just funny in the context of there only being 2 casualties and those being ICE executing random people milling around rather than like viet cong style human wave attacks over minefields to overrun isolated firebases
January 26, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Put Vietnam-style firebases on those floating rocks
December 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
no prefab garrisons no FOBs no firebases just in and out, exactly
September 20, 2026 at 8:08 PM
KADEX, the Korean Arms Expo, seems to exemplify what I and others have said about artillery in Ukraine, towed artillery firebases have become obsolete. Rockets and drones counterbattery is too effective, put them all on vehicles and put indirect fire on everything with wheels.
October 15, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Mock up of the Vietnam scene. Sheridan is coming along, and I'm thinking about the composition. I bulked out a sandbag wall, in accordance to reference pics of forward firebases. I'd considered doing a quonset hut facade but couldn't justify SGT Richard would be showering outside. 😅 #histscalemodels
August 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is an army that lives on force multipliers. They are also very well trained and very experienced. They can handle very complicated tactics.

Traditionally, this meant mounted deployments, squad heavy weapons, and overlapping specialized mobile firebases. Plus chainswords as a backup.
September 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Firebases you say
Obi Wan I Havethe High Ground GIF
Alt: Obi Wan on mustafar saying “I have the high ground”
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May 14, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Special thanks to @geektoylove.bsky.social for this approx. 1/10000 scale of Halo's Phoenix class vessel for the stardock. Yes the little D20 Herons, or firebases, are included so very great to see these details.
December 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
There’s literally no evidence of Hamas using hospitals as shelters or firebases, you’re full of shit.
January 20, 2024 at 5:42 AM
Nice! 😲👍

I received an Osprey book on Vietnam firebases last Xmas because I want to build some terrain in these styles for a sci-fi project.
January 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Donut Dollies were American women hired by the Red Cross to serve in-country during the #VietnamWar. They had recreation centers in many large base camps and visited troops on firebases - providing a distraction from the war. Read more about them here: cherrieswriter.com/2017/11/03/g...
Games amidst a Faraway War (Guest post)
This article originally posted on my friend, Joe Campolo’s website and is published here with his permission. It was Joe, who prodded Rene’ to write about her experiences, and then help…
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January 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
There were several thousand firebases during the conflict, manned by many units and many men, but they were all the same. Con Thien was special to those that were there. Keith Nightingale tells what it was like for the Marines during the siege. cherrieswriter.com/2022/03/26/h...
HILL OF ANGELS
A firebase in Vietnam, wherever in Vietnam, would be well-known to whoever habituated one anywhere.  There were several thousand firebases during the conflict, manned by many units and many me…
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January 30, 2026 at 11:00 PM
"all-around defense"

Captain, where shall we dig our trenches? Which way is the enemy?
All around us! Everywhere!

Like American firebases in South Vietnam.
There are no flanks.
Every perimeter line is a front.
June 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This will be Venezuela, isolated firebases that conduct recon and search and destroy missions. FARC is expert in jungle warfare and this is their terrain. They fought Columbia in an insurgency that lasted 50 years.
January 1, 2026 at 2:39 PM
This is a full collection (4 pages) of all bases (firebases, LZ’s, Air Force bases, Brown Water Navy, Medical and other locations of interest) from the Vietnam War between the years 1963 and 1975 as they are listed with the DOD. bit.ly/4kgFGYW
March 30, 2026 at 11:00 PM