station
noun
a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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In the late 1990s, while Parson was building a career in narcotics investigations, another D.C. officer was stationing himself outside a gay club in Southeast Washington.
From Washington Post