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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 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. As of Sunday 30 November, the Afghan National Army had not fully driven out the 'Taliban' fighters.ДЄt least five ANA soldiers were killed in the attack. On 27 November 2014, insurgents infiltrated Camp Bastion. The camp was handed over to the control of the Afghan security forces on 26 October 2014. In February 2014, snow fell in Camp Bastion for the first time since the base was established, eight years earlier. The Air Traffic Control Squadron at Camp Bastion was the first to recruit and train US Marines to UK air traffic control standards. Its air traffic controllers were integral to the support of the UK's operations in southern Afghanistan and Bastion 0 was added in around 2010 and housed the contractors and Bastion 3 was used for in-theatre training.Д¬amp Bastion included Bastion Airfield, Bastion Garrison and Camp Leatherneck.ДЄs of September 2014 it was reported that both Bastion 2 & 3 have been reverted to desert.Д¬amp Bastion airfield and heliport handled up to 600 fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft movements every day in 2011, operating combat, Bastions 1 and 2 were the first, with Bastion 2 containingД¬amp Barber (US) and Camp Viking (DK). The base had previously been divided into a number of different sections (bastions). The first runway capable of landing C-17's direct from the United Kingdom opened in Camp Bastion on 3 December 2007. The first camp to be built was Camp 251 which housed the construction force and they were housed Unit's emblem of a lone Bastion Hesco Bastion. The base was originally named by the Commanding Officer of 62 Works Group (RE) based upon the

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Four miles long by two miles wide, it had a busy airfield and a field hospital and originally had full accommodation for the However, from early 2006 personnel from 39 Engineer Regiment Royal Engineers and various contracting firms,ДЄll under the supervision of 62 Works Group Royal Engineers started to build the base with more robust facilities, the camp was situated in a remote desert area,ДЇar from population centres.

The camp started out with just a few tents in 2005. This provided a vital and strategic insertion point in Helmand Province and unbeknownst to the two controllers, was to be the foundations for Camp Shorabak. Could hold over 28,000/ 32,000 troops.Д¬amp Shorabak began life as Camp Bastion, a Tactical Landing Zone set up by two Air Traffic Controllers from the Royal Air Force's Tactical Air Traffic Control Unit. RAF Group Captain Tony Innes, Commander Bastion and Commanding Officer 903 Expeditionary Air WingДЈ,500 metres (11,483В ft)В Concrete/Asphalt Near Gereshk, Helmand Province inВ AfghanistanДЄfghanistan - Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation - Bastion