Inside Camp Bastion

Inside Bastion -- BBC

Camp Bastion, a sprawling, well-fortified British-run base in the desert in southern Afghanistan, is the size of the UK town of Reading and home to almost 30,000 people. Bastion - with its own water bottling plant, hospital, police force and even Pizza Hut - is widely regarded as a safe haven for troops. However, a Taliban attack breaching the perimeter and resulting in the death of two US Marines has shown it is not impregnable.

What's it like inside Camp Bastion? Explore the graphical representation of the base below to find out.

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My Comment: An informative graphic on Camp Bastion. But what strikes me about this post is not the base .... but the realization that by 2015 this base will essentially be empty if withdrawal of combat forces does take place.
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