Camp Bastion is the main British military base in Afghanistan. Accommodating 28,000 people, it is situated northwest of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, and exists to be the logistics hub for operations in Helmand. It is the largest British overseas military camp built since the Second World War. Built in early 2006 by personnel from 39 Engineer Regiment Royal Engineers and various contracting firms, all under the supervision of 62 Works Group Royal Engineers, the camp is situated in a remote desert area, far from population centres. Four miles long by two miles wide, it has a busy airfield and a field hospital and originally had full accommodation for the 2000 men and women.
The base is divided into a number of different sections (Bastions). Bastion 1 and 2 were the first sections with Bastion 2 containing Camp Barber (US) and Camp Viking (DK), Bastion 0 was added in around 2010 and houses the contractors and Bastion 3 is used for in-theatre training. The base is home to a number of nations including the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Tonga. Camp Shorabak (formerly Camp Bastion) is a former British Army airbase, located northwest of the city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, until 27 October 2014 when the British Army handed over control to the Afghan Ministry of Defense. The base has barracks for the Afghan National Army. Between 2005 and October 2014 it was the logistics hub for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operations in Helmand during the War in Afghanistan and Operation Herrick, and it was capable of accommodating over 32,000 people. The camp was built by the British Army and was the largest British overseas military camp built since the Second World War.[7] The base was also home to troops from a number of nations, including the United States and Denmark.
Shorabak contains the Afghan National Army (ANA) camp (also called Camp Shorabak), and also held Camp Leatherneck until 2014. As of September 2014 it was reported that both Bastion 2 & 3 have been reverted to desert.
Camp Bastion airfield and heliport handled up to 600 fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft movements every day in 2011, operating combat, medical and logistics flights. Its air traffic controllers were integral to the support of the UK's operations in southern Afghanistan and the Air Traffic Control Squadron at Camp Bastion was the first to recruit and train US Marines to UK air traffic control standards.
In February 2014, snow fell in Camp Bastion for the first time since the base was established, eight years earlier.
The camp was handed over to the control of the Afghan security forces on 26 October 2014.
On 27 November 2014, insurgents infiltrated Camp Bastion. As of Sunday 30 November, the Afghan National Army had not fully driven out the "Taliban" fighters. At least five ANA soldiers were killed in the attack.
Upon completion of British and US military withdrawal from Camp Bastion, it was renamed Camp Shorabak as this was the name of the Afghan base situated there. 
In December 2015, it was announced that a small contingency of British troops would return to Camp Shorabak in an advisory role, due to the Taliban overrun of Sangin district in Helmand province.

The United States Military used part of Bastion Airfield for their aircraft and they had their own camp within Camp Bastion until 26 October 2014. The last unit was the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward) which began operating from April 2014. It consisted of:

Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 467 (HMLA-467) which operated Bell AH-1W SuperCobras and Bell UH-1Y Venoms.
Marine Wing Support Squadron 274 (MWSS-274) from 7 April 2014.
Marine Wing Suppprt Squadron-371(February 2009-October) laid aluminum matting in Camp Bastion and throughout Helmand Province.

On 14 September 2012 Camp Bastion was attacked by a unit of 15 Taliban fighters. The base was defended by pilots and aircraft maintenance personnel from VMA-211Marine Attack Squadron 21]] and No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment. Base security had been reduced in the weeks leading up to the attack, and the Taliban unit was able to damage or destroy eight USMC AV-8B Harrier II jets before all were killed or captured.Two Marines died in the fighting. It was the first time that Marine air units had fought as infantry since the Battle of Wake Island in World War II..

Camp Bastion, which was the biggest ever British army base, has been left destroyed amid fears the Taliban could soon overrun it. Taliban forces have been moving closer towards the base in recent weeks and are now in control over half of the Helmand province.  The army-base-turned-ghost-town was given to the Afghan government forces as a barracks for troops in October 2014. Prior to this, more than 10,000 brave soldiers once called the camp home during the 13 years the British spent fighting the Taliban in the area. Camp Bastion cost £50m to fully build in 2006 and a further £300m to wipe it clean of British assets eight years later. The total cost to British taxpayers of setting up and running the camp was £20billion. The footage filmed by the BBC last week revealed a derelict, empty camp. The deserted camp still features rolls of barbed wire, concrete walls, radar towers and aircraft hangars - all empty and in collapse. The Ministry of Defence said in response to the new footage: "The UK has a long-term commitment to build a more secure, stable and prosperous Afghanistan. "Though our combat mission ended in 2014, the UK continues to support the Government of Afghanistan through NATO’s train, advise and assist mission, Resolute Support. "The UK also provides substantial political, financial and development support." Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, said at the time of Camp Bastion's closure two years ago that there was “no guarantee” Afghanistan would be “stable and safe” following the departure of western fighting forces. The former Prime Minister, David Cameron called the drawdown "mission accomplished". But, just weeks after the British left, the Taliban launched a powerful assault on the base. In a shocking indictment of security following the British hand-over, the United States confirmed that they have been forced to use 90 ‘Special Operations’ soldiers to defend the site. They now occupy a tiny corner of Camp Bastion - the rest remains a ghost town. A British security source who visited Helmand even told The Mail on Sunday that the Afghan Army was paying the Taliban thousands of US dollars not to attack them. Intelligence reports have since suggested that the Taliban may be planning to invade Camp Bastion as a symbolic move intended to secure publicity across the world. Colonel Richard Kemp, who led British troops in Afghanistan, said: "Camp Bastion is also a likely objective for the Taliban, if only symbolically, as a demonstration of their capability. Joe Glenton, a former soldier with the Royal Logistic Corps in Afghanistan, said the decision to re-invade Afghanistan had "re-energised the Taliban" and operations from Camp Bastion and similar bases "destabilised the entire region". He told the Independent: "The presence of troops acted as a lighting rod for local resistance. "The decision to re-invade reenergised the Taliban and pulled in non-Taliban local fighters at the costs of thousands of British and Afghan dead and wounded. "We should have left earlier or, better, have never committed thousands of troops into a region we did not understand, with no plan, on behalf of the corrupt Karzai puppet regime." 454 British soldiers lost their lives in Helmand province during the campaign against the Taliban from 2006 to 2014. (By OLI SMITH).

**eBay REQUIRES ORDER BE SENT WITH TRACKING, PLEASE SELECT USPS 1ST CLASS SERVICE w/TRACKING**

We'll cover your purchase price plus shipping.

FREE 30-day No-Question return

ALL US-MADE PATCHES HAVE LIFETIME WARRANTY

We do not compete price with cheap import copies.

Watch out for cheap import copies with cut-throat price; 

We beat cheap copies with Original design, US-Made Quality and customer services.

Once a customer, a LIFETIME of services