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Forward Operating Base Paliwoda
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<p>FOB Paliwoda or Camp Paliwoda was a US <a href="/facts/Forward_Operating_Base/bUu9hYdk">forward operating base</a> (FOB) in <a href="/facts/Balad,_Iraq/amwmJ3eP">Balad, Iraq</a>. The base was named for Captain Eric Paliwoda, an <a href="/facts/Engineer_Officer/qYIfJgq3">Engineer Officer</a> and <a href="/facts/United_States_Military_Academy/px9g8rhT">West Point</a> Graduate from <a href="/facts/Farmington,_Connecticut/MSG6LCD8">Farmington, Connecticut</a> serving with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, who was killed in an enemy mortar attack in Balad on 2 January 2004; it had formerly been called FOB Eagle. </p>