Back To Bastion: Returning Four Years After British Troops Left Afghanistan

Back To Bastion: Returning Four Years After British Troops Left Afghanistan | Forces TV

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5 жыл бұрын

It was once the largest British overseas military base on the planet, with around 114,000 personnel living and working at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan since April 2007. Now Forces News has been given special access to see what remains of a place that so many once called home.
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@exJacktar 5 жыл бұрын

I'm an Afghan vet of 2 tours. I look back at what l did and experienced in 07 and 09 along with my comrades. l feel now it was all for nothing and wish we'd never got involved. All the fallen and money down the drain, I used to believe...

@leecarson6525 5 жыл бұрын

Its incredible how much can change in a year but in 4 years, from a fully operationally base to now a place of memories and rubble. Frighting.

@Fredster-uj7pq 5 жыл бұрын

It’s a shame such an amazing base just turned into nothing

@ademirhodzic4426 4 жыл бұрын

I was there in a period of 2011/2012 serving as a civilian employee this video wakes up some memories and I feel nostalgic and I will get back there in a hearthbeat.

@Sanctimoniously 3 жыл бұрын

2:30

@QA1990 4 жыл бұрын

I have worked for 4 years outside and inside of Bastion from 2010 to 2014 as an interpreter with British Army. This video refresh my memory in 2020. I remember like yesterday when I was working with the 3th Battalion PARA regiment ( 3 PARA ) in Herrick (13). Heroes Soldiers, SGTs and Officers.

@SSgtCalebP 5 жыл бұрын

I served in Helmand when the US army was deployed there in 16-17. I briefly visited Bastion. And it amazes me how much of a ghost town the place is! Almost haunting !

@zamansyed86 5 жыл бұрын

“450 men and women who came to this base but never returned “ 😔 .. 💔💔💔💔

@khatarshab2214 5 жыл бұрын

Afghanistan is grave yard of empires.

@ptgarraty 5 жыл бұрын

It was like a busy city when I was there in 2012. It’s crazy to see this.

@limasierratango3834 3 жыл бұрын

The amount of homeless veterans on our streets I'm sure would love to have one of them roofs above their heads, such a shame, such a waste. I miss all my tours I've been on in Afghanistan, no matter how hard or tough or upsetting they were nothing compared to life on the front line.

@landonricketts2569 5 жыл бұрын

It's weird seeing that coffee shop. I had a cup of coffee in there in 2010 with a buddy of mine before we left for Operation Cobra's Anger. I also came back to Bastion in 2017-18 and did that same mission as the guys in the video. One thing that was really eerie about seeing the base then and now was how quiet it was. Alot of the furthest areas are like stepping into a ghost town.