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

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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[@leecarson6525]

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.

[@adenlamb9916]

Well yeah, all the stuff got sent back home. its not like it was just abandoned.

[@LoderMike]

Insert afghans and wait.

[@solinvictus2094]

Same can happen here at home if were not careful :'(

[@mannixflinn6227]

Aden Lamb erm, no. There was plenty of stuff left in other places for the Afghan Army. And immeasurable quantities of stuff sold to them to be used in combat. That base should have been reconsolidated by the Afghans and used effectively.

[@hihu7200]

There was no longer a need for it. Militaries are practical, not sentimental.

[@exJacktar]

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...

[@CALSW0RLD]

gurka321 Respect, something needs to be done as right now troops get deployed in Afghan for different reasons and it obviously isn’t helping the war situation.

[@bastogne315]

Did you kill many babies?

[@ArenBerberian]

Most modern wars are a complete waste of time at the expense of people like you, just for the sick political gains of politicians.

[@exJacktar]

@@bastogne315 no, l did not. But if it makes you feel better, l saw more than one Afghan who was torn up by Taliban IED. Is that satisfactory?

[@steveh5005]

@@bastogne315 idiot

[@ademirhodzic4426]

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.

[@Fredster-uj7pq]

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

[@cheesedoesgaming6088]

Fredster 2525 and cost 300 million to disband

[@arminius6506]

Dude Afghans are in habit of turning everything into nothing

[@canadiandrumer]

that's how war works, only in the end do you see how pointless and wasteful it is

[@SuperCompany007]

Fredster 2525 Why? I think foreign soldiers leaving is a good thing

[@thehypest6118]

The Afghanies don't want to get better

[@Sanctimoniously]

2:30 I was a Navy Corpsman at the Marine Corps base next door (Camp Leatherneck) from 2011-2012, I shuttled critical patients from my Combined Aid Station to the Bastion Role III hospital probably 2-3 times a week, I was on that exact ramp probably 100 times. Crazy to see it totally desolate like that, looks like 28 Days Later.

[@QA1990]

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.

[@Katmando376]

Brother have you got out?

[@nikmason6873]

I salute the ones you don't see.

[@aceboogisback9946]

Some of the most amazing sunrises I’ve ever seen on that base, probably from the lack of trees, flat desert, and enormous sprawl of everything lol

[@bilalsafi839]

What did you achieved in doing so ? Allowing them to kill your innocent fellow Afghans

[@bilalsafi839]

What did you achieved in doing so ? Allowing them to kill your innocent fellow Afghans

[@SSgtCalebP]

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 !

[@leonardwei3914]

@shield&sword peaceMy aren't you making a difference sitting on your butt and trolling comments on youtube. Congratulations for contributing almost nothing to humanity. Bravo.

[@boodymoai898]

Great deploy war criminal

[@ptgarraty]

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

[@ceezb5629]

Thank you for your service

[@jakedriskell7390]

Was my home for two year straight - Is sad to see that state that the base is in now.

[@brohub6161]

So how many families have you destroyed?

[@a39tortoise40]

@@brohub6161 Shut up and have some respect.

[@brohub6161]

@@a39tortoise40 respect for murdering innocents?

[@highstakes1235]

@@brohub6161 stfu

[@paulefc1971]

@@brohub6161 Taliban did plenty of murdering, imagine having a daughter that wasn’t allowed an education? Or getting married off at 10 years old, shame on other countries for trying to help out

[@robertlindsay6671]

Fascinating, I always wondered how much of it was left. I've been there 3 times and to see it as empty and abandoned as this years after is bizarre.

[@ConCafePodcast]

There's a documentary showing what British army left to the Afghans.

[@landonricketts2569]

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.

[@ceezb5629]

Thank you for your service

[@joshking86]

how many kills did u get

[@zamansyed86]

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

[@ernestthomas358]

@Chico Khan stfu

[@Quayyy463]

@@ernestthomas358 maaane u stfu!!!!

[@paulefc1971]

@X oXdot cared enough to comment you melt

[@boodymoai898]

Who cares??😂

[@limasierratango3834]

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.

[@muhammadluthfi1433]

Hey bro. I'm just want to asking you. Did the soldiers know the meaning from this war? Did they have effort to buy a house in U.S? Did your country unemployment so high? Did your country tax so high? Did you realize if the bank own everything even they never go to war? Hope you are realize.

[@ifv2089]

@@muhammadluthfi1433 who cares It was great fun

[@craigsmith4084]

Reminds me of leaving Vietnam to the South Vietnamese Army.

[@ma.elizabethalvia5691]

why are you suppressing food from the public south Vietnam has no will to fight the communist because they see them as their fellow Vietnamese...they are not like south Koreans who really hate communist

[@cahill8875]

Reminds you personally???

[@operationsearchgate3072]

@@ma.elizabethalvia5691 wtf are you even saying?

[@KevinJones-xh5yk]

I used to remember driving our mastiffs there a few times. Was like driving towards Vegas at night. It lit the whole sky up.

[@khatarshab2214]

Afghanistan is grave yard of empires.

[@michaelweller3490]

Zindabad bachesh!

[@michaelweller3490]

Deene Islam dar qalbe maa, Khodawand da panaae maa, marde maydan maa hastem

[@johnredmond6723]

He means that many empires have tried to invade Afghanistan but their efforts have always failed from British empire back in the day to soviet union and America

[@allstar_7112]

Jack Redmond woah were did The American Empire come from

[@calelliot3703]

@@allstar_7112 They have military bases in more half the world if that aint an empire what is

[@kaspernielsen9149]

Dear Forces TV, as a military channel you should know that Camp Bastion was home of the Danish armed forces as well.

[@Perseus7567]

I think, at some point or another, Bastion was home to almost every army on the face of this planet. The British Army may have built it, but NATO used it. Exactly how NATO should work. I'm pretty sure that at one point, even some people from the small island of Tonga were stationed there. That camp transcended more borders than probably exist. Not really surprising it has legendary status across dozens of militaries.

[@Morgan12858]

Glad to see all those soldiers died for nothing now that the taliban has regained control.....

[@ALLSTARGAMERSUNITED]

They died to give the current army enough time to train and establish themselves to fight their own battles with the taliban

[@Nathan-yk5km]

ALLSTARGAMERSUNITED which is working out fantastically ‘Now that the taliban has regained control’

[@Nathan-yk5km]

ALLSTARGAMERSUNITED ‘taliban regained control’

[@ALLSTARGAMERSUNITED]

@@Nathan-yk5km they havent taken over the country so yes it has worked

[@Morgan12858]

What are you talking about lmao

[@ianmyers1593]

I was part of an US construction team in Afghanistan. I always wondered what the bases look like almost a decade later.

[@thelaidbackguitarist]

Veteran came on our pod and spoke about Camp Bastion life - said it was an amazing base, like a full town in the middle of the desert

[@iTzSoULCuRRy]

God I miss that coffee shop, good old Green Bean.

[@catlee8064]

....and the queues for pizza.....could drink 2 coffees by the time yo ugot to the front!

[@masihullahazizi_arab2989]

Hello, I am Afghan and I want to know about the journey you had here in Afghanistan. Can tell about camp bastion and the journey foreigners had here in my country cause I really love military and their machinary

[@diabeetus5052]

The coffee shop was called Heroes. Always full of RAF Reg Force Protection hats giving people death stares.

[@ceezb5629]

Thank you for your service

[@truechampoftrance]

Rip Sgt Balduf, some gave a little but he gave it all. Semper fi. Love to you Brits from America.

[@Horizon344]

Returned bud, thx.

[@KitamusPrime]

I remember that hospital... its so surreal to see it like that.

[@rickdon5215]

i remember leaving bastion for the last time in september 2014...it really changed

[@DJ-lc5fe]

I was on leatherneck side. 2010-11 but I remember to many visits to that hospital to see my guys offScary seeing that place again.

[@andrews1692]

helmend 2009. this is heart breaking to watch.

[@alisonm3700]

You did this Afghanistan

[@justice2bdone729]

It was my home back then 2009 and 2011 doing two tours. When I used to come back from Front line FOBs, used to feel like home in KENT, what a surreal seeing in this condition like lifeless dessert

[@raisipjr8705]

I miss for Bastion two years I work.... I miss all my friends

[@steffiebee5224]

I spent 2 tours there, pounding and driving those roads. I lost 3 good friends out there that didnt come back. And for what. We never should have got involved in that debarkle. Back then you wernt allowed a voice, but now i am a veteran i can freely say this...wasted money, wasted lives and wasted time, time and money that could have been best spent elsewhere.

[@juandeag5194]

My brother used to live there! In the danish section called Camp Viking untill he went to the frontline. He said that the entire Camp Bastion was freaking huge and it would have been one of the biggest cities in all of Denmark if it was here.

[@Marinexize]

Wow i was last there in 2012. It was full of life.

[@BillJM94]

Well done boys, and girls! Proud and greatful to all of you Brave souls.

[@kranson8514]

Grateful for those who serve past and present never forgetting those who sacrificed all including theirs families 😔 god bless👊 Spare a smile your respect even a spare £€$ to those less fortunate veterans - human beings finding themselves on our streets.

[@aaronwilkinson8963]

I was in Bastion 2 in 2009 and 2010. Had a lovely Christmas there for half an hour

[@grantgray1759]

Such a waste, I was there in 2013 and the base was fully operative with a badass coffee shop.

[@DB-qw6xq]

I spent a year of my life in Bastion on two tours (2006 & 2010). I had a room there and went out to the various FOBs and Patrol Bases in Helmand. I was shot at numerous times and nearly blow up in a vehicle more than once. I was there when David Beckham visited and had lunch with him in a group. Very surreal to be there, an even more so to see it now.

[@mikebreezy0587]

I was here 2012 Jan-aug 1st Marine Division Hq battalion Truck Company. I absolutely remember that Pizza Hut trailer.

[@razakmanila7062]

I have been 5 years at camp bastion

[@johnthroneberry7212]

I just found this and it hits hard...

[@seanbrickell7879]

First time I've seen footage of Bastion since leaving there in 2014. Strange feeling.

[@tristanleon5042]

Share your experience how did you stol al the Uranium?

[@seanbrickell7879]

@@tristanleon5042 I hid it all in my top flap

[@michaelsaxton9416]

I'm a Marine who was at Leatherneck for a few weeks. Went to Bastion a few times. Hard to believe the state it is in, hard to believe the state both bases are in.

[@andrews1692]

complacency kills. leatherneck 2009.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@spearofpower seek a therapist

[@CyclonicTuna023]

Afghanistan is a lost cause. It always has been.

[@fishyc150]

Alexander the great believed violence and murder was in the soil. Almost like disease. He sent some back to his home in Macedonia and asked his mother to observe it and see what happened. Legend has it the men guarding the small pot of earth killed each other. They cannot be helped.

[@Victor-kt6qn]

@@fishyc150 I've never heard that Where is your source??

[@fishyc150]

@@Victor-kt6qn Without wanting to sound rude... from history. It's quite a famous anecdote from his campaigns... I'll try and find some references to it and get back to you. My recollection may not be 100% but the general account is correct.

[@Victor-kt6qn]

@@fishyc150 I didn't want to be rude about it like I didn't believe you. I was just curious

[@fishyc150]

@@Victor-kt6qn I seriously meant know offence, and didnt want you to think I was being rude... which is why i said "i dont want to sound rude". I didnt think you were being rude either. I too am interested in things like this. Sometimes in written "speech" the softer nuances are lost ;-)

[@user-pe1ns8bd6j]

I was at LNK back in 2012 and actually worked on Bastion 0 - as well as outside the wire - and I remember all of these places. I was just telling my wife about the pizza at Ciano's, and then this popped into my feed.

[@randomoldguy3967]

I remember watching a video of the handover to Afghan troops. The Afghan officer was touring the base with his British counterpart telling him what the Brits were leaving and what they were taking. The Afghan officer was complaining about the Brits not leaving enough expensive items (likely for him to steal and sell) and now look at the state of what they actually left to the lazy Afghans.

[@ritchie9709]

Hot Wheels Addict 74 yeah they are corrupt and not interested in their soldiers.

[@demonsheadshot8086]

@@Freeagent-4-life so you've seen that documentary too huh, it's interesting to say the least

[@BigJoe4189]

RIP for my 3 cousins never return home

[@mr.severeclear85]

stupid! if they have a brain=? they would never go to war. but when people don't have a brain? they are looking for new brain in war. :))

[@mr.severeclear85]

they born to die not to live. as me ;)) enjoy the life be smart.

[@truenorthadventures4474]

@@mr.severeclear85 stfu

[@corey6537]

@@mr.severeclear85 Go to hell

[@boodymoai898]

Nice 😊 Tell them not to invade others so they wouldn't be killed like bithes

[@212caboose]

so many memories...

[@MrAdamoJ]

The IWM should endeavour to take the MERT (Medical Emergency Response Team) memorial shown at 4'05" for conservation and display.

[@0_169]

You could just say 4:05

[@garypulliam3740]

Why?

[@lukedelport8231]

@@garypulliam3740 sends people to that part of the vid

[@StickTheGlue]

Probably wouldn't even be that hard to get back either, load it onto a truck onto a plane then home

[@Zoltrix89]

The "DEAD" tag really puts things into perspective. You can spruce it up to feel like home with coffee shops and theatres, but War is still War. So discouraging to know this is still a part of our lives, in an otherwise advanced time.

[@richarddasilva3054]

I loved that place. Spent 18 months of my life there. Can’t believe how ghostly it looks now. My best memories was going on test drives around the perimeter which I did many times and seeing the nearest village, the poppy fields and the occasional camels. Good memories there.

[@Zahram1719]

It means you came to Afghanistan just for site visit and no goals and it totally not important how many civilians killed in this was and how many soldiers lost their life’s and how much they spent for nothing and finally very proud bringing back Taliban, you are loser and shame on you and your commanders 👎

[@lukedelport8231]

Saw this with my cousin 3 tours he did he had a long laugh at the coffee shop

[@mattconklin4026]

Wow i was there in 2011 but over on leatherneck, those 2 bases were HUGE

[@Salena905]

So much respect for all the armed forces,🙌 and such sorrow for all who died🙇.

[@michaelweller3490]

May God curse them, the participaters in oppression and imperialism

[@jackie520]

@@michaelweller3490 oppression ??? Unlike the taliban , they are not cutting people's heads off , using civilians as human shields , treating women like property and not letting little girls go to school

[@HKim0072]

For better or worse, the military industrial complex at its finest.

[@42088cowboy]

I didn’t go to the Bastion side much I was at Camp Leatherneck with the US Marines. This makes me feel uneasy seeing everything that was fought for and how it is now.

[@paulgibbon4045]

This camp was named after my friends family from leeds UK. His family designed the the walls made of sand that protect the base.

[@bonesshed.]

I did a tour at Bastion and did not know that !! and Im from Leeds too. I just googled it and a Yorkshire Evening post article popped up about it saying the boss had died at Thorp Arch, near Boston Spa comp where I went to school. Well well well. Thanks for this snippet of info.

[@longy6612]

i was stationed at bastion for 6 month its truly was heaven in hell. quite a surreal experience eating kfc in a air conditioned tent in the middle of a war zone.

[@mansoorikhtiary9642]

Just resurfaced all memories of that place. It literally looks like zombie land now. Even you get scared when walking in the aforementioned hospital.

[@brettgloyn3198]

Loved that place.

[@briandavenport8971]

I was a US Marine stationed at Camp Bastion in 2008. Seeing it empty is bizarre.

[@2254wer]

4:14 "In memory for those souls Loving Lord, bless them forever in Your eternal peace… Cherish their spirit, honour their commitment, send them our love, and will never forget the service that they gave.”

[@galimir]

A good question is the sense of spending of all these money there instead of investing them in UK?

[@_ian69]

My dad was stationed at Bagram for 6 months. Since he was Air Force, he just did his normal job but in Afghanistan. 6 months of my life, I could only see my dad on Skype. In the end, it was all meaningless, nothing was accomplished. I’m lucky my dad came home but so many weren’t as lucky.

[@yarborough137]

This hurts my heart

[@emrearslan1541]

It is so sad watching bastion turns ınto nothing and dust

[@rock3tcatU233]

50 million to build a fully functioning city is actually a bargain.

[@wiretamer5710]

Yes: but that is just the hardware. The cost of the Human Resources and knowledge based infrastructure to keep it operational would have dwarfed the hardware. $50 million would have kept it running for a few months at best.

[@gregm3702]

Memories oh Memories

[@donnahepden8574]

Hi I love the vids

[@BeginnerCyclistNetwork]

So strange watching this. To think I once knew that place like the back of my hand. Wouldn't have a clue where I'm driving if I went there now with most of it knocked down.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

Mustve felt like a big fun california beach resort there sometimes on quite days and in the late years with increased gals there too

[@markmanwaring3823]

why do we waste money and lives on that place , they won't even help themselves

[@lordbucketheadpolling5824]

@Killy19 Killy tbf I think we should just pull all US, UK, NATO out of the Middle East, prop up some big barbed wire fences around the borders and let them do what they want

[@magicman3163]

Killy19 Killy IDGAF those tusken raiders aren’t human.

[@SabMusik]

That’s such an ignorant and ill informed comment. We cannot help ourselves because someone always has a gun to our heads and tells us what to do. Worlds most powerful countries are interfering in our country in every level.

[@glintwing]

@@lordbucketheadpolling5824 thats not where the interests are.... Dont talk nonsense

[@tristanleon5042]

600 flights per day?? They took al the Uranium out the country the money they spent got 1 milion time more than back to england

[@NavyThunder_YT]

I remember seeing the evac on tv and I can’t believe it’s already been 4 years

[@Taxi_for_takeoff]

I did two deployments out of there. Sent many of my US Marines to that hospital. Insane to see now.

[@jacobbatuchi6761]

If the Russians couldn't do it no one can ! ... They were right next door to Afghanistan

[@bow900]

I’ll have to concur lol

[@chadgillis2845]

they had rambo

[@jaredgarbo3679]

Slot of people have successfully invaded Afghanistan

[@lemo3177]

nobody has ever fully conquered afganistan

[@cowboyanimal6700]

@@dennisbarsich1310 Says the 56%er

[@billlexington5788]

I still remember thinking that coffee shop was a pub, when I was going to the PX next door. I also remember seeing some pretty ladies outside that trailer when it was a dominoes. I assumed they were medical personnel by the uniforms.

[@perjonsson8033]

Really like forces tv. Served for, about, 20 years (not In the British Armed Forces) and been very intrested In Military matters since the age of ten. Forces tv :the very best "show" about diverse, Military "stuff"that I've seen.Really, really good.

[@ChrisParadise-wv5iz]

I feel like im back in KAF. 09-10 for myself. I can feel the heat as you walk around. I miss it to be honest, I absolutely loved my time over there and felt useful.

[@zanderboy]

having been to some of those buildings and canteens it makes me feel a bit sick seeing this video. the lives we lost, what a waste.

[@boodymoai898]

Moral of the story Don't invade other countries then cry your people are being killed

[@brennancattermole3898]

Afghanistan: Receives a £50 million military base/air port the size of a town. Afghanistan: Don't like it, smells of tea...just gonna leave it here

[@PrzemekPol]

They dont realy have the resources to keep it up... still sad.

[@lok777]

Were they supposed to upkeep and maintain this absurd base your country created during an invasion? I am sure their memories of your invasion of their country are not as happy and rosey as yours, and perhaps they want to forget everything about your filthy country?

[@kingyousif8768]

ur IQ is so low that pointing out the obvious to you would be pointless...

[@mananaVesta]

Most of it was dismantled anyway, at least the valueable parts. And what use would Afghans have for a vast empty expanse of concrete and rubble?

[@brennancattermole3898]

@@goofyius9360 You know what a joke is right?

[@jordanfinnegan9290]

Heartbreaking to see it lying in such ruins, feel like left a large part of myself there

[@JCKaney]

I was in in CampBastion for 7 months during Herrick 13/14... Strange feeling to see it reduced to nothing. Lots of memories, lots of coffee.

[@mattlawson2578]

I was out on Herrick 13 with 1RRF. Although based in Price, Bastion was a place I looked forward to spending a day or two. Shame to see it in the state it is

[@ritchie9709]

Typically ANA commanders have done what they do best. Take for themselves and leave the troops in peril. This was supposed to be the HUB in which operations against the taliban in Helmand would be launched. It’s a shame it’s turned into rubble but that’s what we all thought would happen.

[@MrTuxy]

I don't think foreign countries had any right to be there in the first place. It is a shame about the loss of life though.

[@ritchie9709]

Chris Spelman yeah it was a big mistake same as Iraq.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@ritchie9709 well someone had to secure the poppyfields from the taliban who were burning them and killing the farmers. 90% of all opium/heroin worldwide comes from afghanistsn and Taliban are anti-drugs. Heroin is not just a billion but a trillion dollar industry. One if the biggest in the world worth fighting wars for. Just lile the fsnous opium wars that china fought against the brits as the britidh crippled chinese society by flooding them with drugs

[@lok777]

@@AbuHajarAlBugatti Yeah thats it. We can create synthetic Opiate drugs stronger than heroin (such as Fentanyl) so why would we need to keep the poppy flowing? The Mexican Cartels are switching from selling Heroin to Fentanyl because they can get pre-cursor chems from China and make it in Mexico. We do not need the Poppy from Afghanistan. I think this line of reasoning is more than a bit absurd, we attacked Afghanistan because the man who murdered 3000 Americans was hiding there and they refused to cooperate.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@lok777 you are either a uneducated joke or a blackwatch clown. Opium pound for pound is worth more than Gold. If you lived in my country 80 years ago you wouldve also believed anything adolf and goebbels wouldve told you. What a moron

[@bestamerica]

' special honor and salute to americans / britishs militarys services

[@boodymoai898]

War criminals and blood thirst

[@kaznoff2782]

I was there and remember these places. Eerie to see it all gone now. Came home in 2013. It was camp bastion and on the American side it was camp leatherneck.

[@ThePorridgeGobbler]

I routed through there twice entering Afghanistan doing heat acclimatisation training on route to Kandahar and again on leaving, it's a bit surreal watching it now.

[@mayankmeer9359]

"Four hundred and fifty men and women came and never return" that's piercing my heart. Lots of love from India.

[@recovermail4260]

That put a smile on my face.

[@Anne.411]

Americans get the most grief about leaving in 2021, even though they are the last ones out

[@gav7256]

Will never forget bastion

[@OEFvet0311]

Last time I was there was Leatherneck, 2010. First time was 2008, on Bastion before it was Leatherneck. Damn, this takes me back.

[@usmanullahasif6281]

i watched this on *2020 Feb 29 Saturday* just after watching the deal signing ceremony b/w US and Taliban. Really feels like this world is a stage and we are all actors.

[@glintwing]

Almost as if Afghanistan was nothing but money laundering, drug producing/exporting, gun selling, etc NATO affair.... IF anyone honestly thinks the priority was preventing taliban reign is a fool.

[@BRZDR]

2:03 No Cameras!

[@IrfanKhan-uh9yt]

I met a British soldier in Birmingham the second biggest city in UK. I asked him what is the legacy of this war in your personal opinion? He showed me his injured leg "This is the only legacy that I have to live with and many other soldiers for the rest of our lives"

[@OutdoorShellback]

I remember that place pretty well, stationed a click down the road at Tombstone, before Leatherneck was even built! Surprised the buildings are in as good a condition as they are here!

[@bikramdhillon677]

It's sad most people never understand it's all about the money.

[@Babushka_82]

You should be sad for how many people die from both side without knowing why???

[@pwilki8631]

WAR......IT'S JUST BUSINESS.

[@dralamzebjadoon3500]

Perfect analysis Business for both locals and foreigners

[@MrTuxy]

If that is true then why do people thank soldiers for serving their country? Should they not thank them for serving powerful businessmen?

[@tapani4896]

@@MrTuxy because they dont know

[@BloodHeresy]

@2:04 big sign saying no cameras in theatre... XD

[@bonesshed.]

I did a tour here in the RAF looking after Apache and Chinook stuff, time split between Bastion and KAF. Spent a bit of time around the MERT AC, watching them come and go with casualties etc Then after my tour I got back to my home base of DMRC Headley Court where I worked in the workshops making prosthetic limbs. I look back on that time as an experience and Im glad I did it but what was achieved ? Loads of people killed, and literally hundreds (the ones we rarely hear about ) with limbs blown off. For nothing. This video brings back some memories for sure !

[@no-body-22]

Should have turned it into a British colony.

[@sub3ero984]

U lost go home white ppl

[@Chappers.Gaming]

@@sub3ero984 is there any evidence to say they lost? Need to see some articles

[@abufaris9282]

@chappers Gaming their withdrawal indicates they have lost the war

[@lincolnduke]

Why, the Afghans are now turning Britain into one of theirs?

[@AngloSupreme]

We've a 7% Muslim population with Afghans making up 1% of that at a push we're ok.

[@nimmodhg]

Rest in peace my brothers and sisters.

[@Project_-jq7jw]

Dang I did a contractor tour at Leatherneck from 2012 to 2013. I remember going onto Bastion to get lunch at that one restaurant that had the nice rare beef salads. Can't remember the name lol.

[@andregordon3974]

Thats crazy when i was there it looked completely different its mad how much they've dismantled it