The command post was set up in a forward position.

指挥部设在前沿阵地上。

《新英汉大辞典》

On Friday morning, the colonel returned to the staging area, where his staff had set up a forward command post -- a tent and a series of antennas in the compound yard of an abandoned three-room house with barrel-vault ceilings made of mud brick.

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