An EABO After-Action Report

What we may expect The following is a narrative version of fictional personal journal excerpts from a ground-based, anti-ship missile commander who completed an expeditionary advanced base operations (EABO) assignment sometime in the future while somewhere in the Indo-Pacific Command (INDO-PACOM) area of responsibility (AOR). After-Action Report I received orders to deploy [my firing battery] to EAB Zeus as part of a persistent ground-based naval force in an active integrated maritime defensein-depth in order to deny adversary access to the adjacent strait and to report on adversary maritime activities in the littoral areas surrounding the strait. Once our gear and equipment were properly staged, [our leadership team] was greeted by the EAB's assigned "guide detachment" commander, SSgt Jones, and his host-nation security force leader, Patrol Sergeant Miguel. According to national intelligence sources and open-source social media reports and postings, our six months of EAB Zeus operations, with its mix of overt and covert activities, had definitely captured the attention and imagination of the entire region.