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An Afghan man who crashed a 4x4 on to the runway at Camp Bastion was working for British forces. The interpreter was feared to have been targeting US defence secretary Leon Panetta, who was ...
A guide to Camp Bastion, a sprawling, well-fortified British-run base in the desert in southern Afghanistan, which is home to almost 30,000 military personnel and civilians.
Camp Leatherneck and Camp Bastion are now under Afghan Army control. Marines and sailors with Marine Expeditionary Brigade in Afghanistan load onto a KC-130 aircraft at Camp Bastion, Helmand ...
A Marine pays his final respects to Lt. Col. Christopher Raible, during a Sept. 19, 2012, memorial service at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell were killed after insurgents ...
Footage has emerged of the British army's abandoned former base in Afghanistan, Camp Bastion, even as Taliban forces gain a greater hold of the area.. Stretches of sandy ground criss-crossed with ...
British forces handed over Camp Bastion to the Afghan army in late October as part of a transition that will see the U.S. and NATO combat mission end on Dec. 31.
Camp Bastion became operational in April 2006, when the British Army moved into the Helmand badlands on a mission to bring security, assist local construction projects and help the Afghan ...
CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan — Flags for the international fighting force were flying at half-staff outside the military trauma hospital the morning of our visit, in remembrance of the latest ...
But who will remember the American heroes who came under siege at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan on 9/14/12? Two heroic U.S. Marines -- Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell ...
The new Afghan corps commander, Gen. Moein Faqir, boasted that he had solved the ghost soldiers problem, and the limited number of Americans who moved back onto Camp Bastion early in 2016 gave him ...
Dee Featherstone at Camp Bastion in the Helmund Province, Afghanistan, during her deployment there. Courtesy of Dee Featherstone. Although we could hear the attack, I had no idea whether Chris had ...
CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan – A pair of Marine Corps brothers had a chance to get together briefly before an operation over Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Capt. Dustin Kerlin, a pilot with ...