Back To Bastion: Returning Four Years After British Troops Left Afghanistan | Forces TV
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Published 2018-08-20
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All Comments (21)
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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...
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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.
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Afghanistan is grave yard of empires.
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It’s a shame such an amazing base just turned into nothing
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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.
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Glad to see all those soldiers died for nothing now that the taliban has regained control.....
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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.
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Afghanistan is a lost cause. It always has been.
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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.
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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 !
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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.
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It was like a busy city when I was there in 2012. It’s crazy to see this.
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“450 men and women who came to this base but never returned “ 😔 .. 💔💔💔💔
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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.
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Was my home for two year straight - Is sad to see that state that the base is in now.
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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.
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Reminds me of leaving Vietnam to the South Vietnamese Army.
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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
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I was part of an US construction team in Afghanistan. I always wondered what the bases look like almost a decade later.
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I used to remember driving our mastiffs there a few times. Was like driving towards Vegas at night. It lit the whole sky up.
