NARAY, Afghanistan, Nov. 24, 2011— -- We're at the "Tip of the Spear." Forward Operating Base Bostick is a remote United States military base located in mountainous northern Afghanistan.

After nearly a decade of war, close to 700 U.S., allied, and Afghan military bases dot Afghanistan. Until now, however, they have existed as black sites known to few Americans outside the Pentagon.

FOB FENTY, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan — You get a sense of what might happen if U.S. troops suddenly left Afghanistan while sitting in a joint U.S.-Afghan military operations room. On one ...

Before redeploying to the United States in September 2018, he served as the site manager of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Dahlke West, located in the Logar province of Eastern Afghanistan.